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May 20, 2013, 2:59 PM

Taste In Music – By Daniel Jacob Levy

My funniest Israel moment was in the summer of 2011. While kayaking down the River Jordan near Kfar Blum I ended up falling into the water. I swam onto the nearest boat and asked the guys sitting on it in broken...

May 20, 2013, 11:30 AM

Ata Iti? – By Jonathan Rose

When I was drafted into the army (a year after I made "aliyah") I was placed in an office job dealing with communication between the army and reserve soldiers, mostly letting them know when they had reserve duty. My Hebrew...

May 20, 2013, 8:15 AM

If Seinfeld were still on tv, I would be living next week’s episode – By Keith Resnick

I don't even know where to begin, but imagine if you went on vacation with Frank and Estelle Costanza, Morty Seinfeld and Jack Klompas (as in the Astronaut Pen "take the pen, I want you to take the pen"),...

May 19, 2013, 10:42 AM

Welcome to Israel, by Yitzchak Kaldor

I was shocked to receive a phone call from the immigration department less than one hour after having gotten off the plane and officially becoming an Israeli citizen. I didn't even know my own phone number, how did they? They asked...

May 19, 2013, 1:00 AM

An un-ruly country, by Darryl Todd

This is the country where you go to a post office, take a queue number from a machine, sit and wait half an hour, and someone comes in and walk straight to the counter and gets served. This is the...

May 18, 2013, 10:37 PM

Siren! by Reeva Brown

On my gap year-long programme, we were based on kibbutz. The first Friday afternoon of my being in Israel ever, had arrived. I was having my pre Shabbat shower..... when I heard the siren. Grabbing my towel I ran out of the...

May 18, 2013, 10:28 AM

Job hunting, by Ellen Cohen

I made aliyah a week after I got married at the age of 23. I came here hardly knowing Hebrew so I took a 6 month ulpan. During that time, I went to a job fair at one of...

May 17, 2013, 9:52 AM

Fear of ladies, by Laura Hoffman

Here it was, 1981 and I was back in Israel for my 3rd time. This time as a 2 month volunteer at Kibbutz Yifat. Although I was brought up going to Hebrew school and even had spent several months...

May 17, 2013, 6:11 AM

Jerusalem Syndrome, by Nicholas Jagdeo

I am very much in love with this land, and in particular, this city of Jerusalem. Yes indeed - crazy, mad, passionate in love am I with this city. However, I have become well-aware of the seemingly high number...

May 16, 2013, 9:10 PM

A little bird…, by Miriam Erez

I'm waiting to see the nurse at my local clinic. Also waiting is a neighbor who's known me practically since I made aliya, i.e., she has spoken with me on more than one occasion, so she knows I know...

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