I hate the phone. I’m fine talking to people in person, and I love writing emails and letters. But keep me away from the phone unless it’s absolutely necessary. I don’t love it in English, and like most people struggling with a language that is not their own, I HATE it in Hebrew. When the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘aliyah’
Ima’s pity party
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, children, Israel, parenting on June 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Living the dream
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, entertainment on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Westbankmama has a post up with several bloggers’ aliyah stories (including mine) in honor of her family’s twentieth aliyah anniversary. Read the different stories about where these women came from, how they ended up here, and the greatest common denominator: how we’re all home. Mazal tov, Westbankmama. And when you’re done with that, check out [...]
A tale of aliyah
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, Israel on May 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Westbankmama is celebrating her family’s 20th anniversary of aliyah this year. (Chazak chazak!) In honor of the occasion (and, I suppose, the Crunch family’s upcoming fifth aliyah anniversary), here is an account of our family’s aliyah. The Cap’n and I met at a one-year program in Israel in our late 20s (what used to be [...]
In honor of the fallen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, history, holiday, Israel, Zionism on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Cap’n and I attended Peach’s second grade class’s ceremony marking Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror) and Yom HaAtzma’ut (Independence Day) this morning. To see the little girls reading Psalms, enacting a soldier’s leaving home and family and returning safe and sound (baruch Hashem), remembering each of the [...]
Relatively healthy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, children, health, Israel on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the things I have found remarkable about our lives in Israel since making aliyah three and a half years ago has been how relatively healthy our children are. True, like most new immigrants, we were all dreadfully sick in our first year here. The Cap’n missed three solid weeks of ulpan while the [...]
Top 10 stupid reasons not to make aliyah
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah, Zionism on January 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The Cap’n and I often hear Jews in America say, “Well, I’d really like to make aliyah, BUT…” and after the “but” give lots of reasons. Some of them make sense (elderly parents to care for, well-established careers that it would be impossible to replicate in Israel or to continue remotely or by commuting) but [...]
Looking forward…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah on July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m working on filling the kids’ baby books with notes about our life here, and came across these paragraphs from my letters to family and friends in the States: We are nearing the one-year mark since making aliyah. Despite being very glad to live here, both rationally and Zionistically, my chief feeling at the end [...]
Guest posting elsewhere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliyah on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a guest post for a new contributor blog called Frum from Rebirth (stories from converts and ba’alei teshuva). It’s a brief account of the Crunch family’s aliyah.
