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28 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure IX
I am going to institute an Israel idiosyncrasy -Ism (the triple “I”) to my column because.. well why not?
Banks charge you for taking out your own money. … I know!! They charge you when you want you to use your credit card. They charge you when you want to open other savings account. I’m not [...]
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23 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure viii
An Arab terrorist decided to drive his car into a group of soldiers tonight. I had been close to that location earlier tonight. Although, I probably wouldn’t have been at the specific spot; I can’t help but think what would have happened if I was.
Why can’t they stop? I feel such a deep sadness for [...]
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17 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure vii
“Welcome to Israel.”
No, I’m not being redundant. This is what I hear every day, many times a day. The thing is, people aren’t saying it in a friendly, warm way, but rather in a sarcastic, cynical way. For example, if your apartment has bugs in it –”Welcome to Israel.” If workers do a shoddy job [...]
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11 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure vi
I’m heeere!
After all the waiting, all the emotion, and taking care of all the specifics, I have arrived. The Nefesh B’Nefesh flight went smoothly and all the olim were treated like rock stars. How? (you are probably wondering.) Well, tons of photographers and a half dozen videographers were recording our descent from the plane. Then [...]
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7 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure v
When first asked to write a column about my aliyah experience - I thought that at best, it would be a help to someone going through or wanting to go through aliyah and at worst, a boring couple of minutes for someone who wasn’t so interested in what I was writing.
Imagine my surprise when I’m the [...]
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2 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: An Aliyah Adventure iv
My last post was about the trials of packing, this post is about what I am feeling this very moment.
I’m scared.
It’s starting to really hit me. I think what opened this dam of emotion is something my grandmother said to me. She asked if my father was sad that I was leaving. So while I [...]
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13 August 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: An Aliyah Adventure iii
This is a rite of passage that I have to take, like many who came before me and many who will after me. This column is not here to judge anyone who has a different journey and this is not a column to postulate or pontificate the best way to go about making aliyah. This is just a column to share and perhaps provide some entertainment about my aliyah adventure.
And I think that’s how I have to look at it - as an adventure. So, here goes my jump from a precipice of familiarity: Welcome to an Olah without a parachute.
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5 August 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: an aliyah adventure ii
Since I gave such a grand introduction to this blog, I shall now start to back it up.
Want to guess the #1 question people ask when I say I’m moving to Israel?
The reaction after I tell people is always interesting. Some of my friends nod like it is the most natural thing in the world [...]
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28 July 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: An Aliyah Adventure i
Phew! Coming up with a title for a column is hard work. So many I mulled over, brainstormed and massaged and I still landed with the original one. You’re probably wondering about other front-runners. Well, there was “shifting into D4″ (too ambiguous) or “Just following orders” (too WWII) and then there was my favorite which [...]
