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Alva Yaffe

A Canadian in Tel Aviv

Sep 5, 2018, 5:58 PM

Making Aliyah: What it takes, the gains and losses, and the expected unexpected

Part One: What does it take? Here you go. You decided to take the plunge and move to the Land of Milk and Honey. The Holy Land. Sounds promising, right? Well, it definitely can be for some. But it can...

Aug 23, 2018, 11:56 AM

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This is your brain on Hebrew

You definitely should learn language as an adult, and you can absolutely blame your brain if you're just not that good at it

Aug 8, 2018, 11:25 AM

The kibbutz: It takes a village to raise a child, but kids should sleep at home

You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. When you have a baby in the house, sleep becomes a thing of the past, a distant memory, a nostalgia. New parents, especially mothers, can attest to this. When your...

Jun 26, 2018, 6:37 PM

4,600 Sirens

What started out as a simple evening babysitting turned out to be a game changer. I was at the home of an Israeli family on the moshav that I was living in. A couple hours into the evening, I...

About Me

Alva Yaffe was born in Israel but raised in Canada. She now lives in Tel Aviv. She made Aliyah in 2013, when she was 27 years old. Since then, she has married an Israeli, lived in over five places across the country, worked, studied, graduated with an MA in Art Therapy, and recently became a mother.

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