Alright, I have been a very good girl and kept my lips zipped for quite a while now. Custom calls for keeping things mum until 12 weeks into the pregnancy.

That’s right. Yonah is going to be a big brother!We actually found out two days before we left for Israel, which made for an […]

With all modesty, I just need to say that Shuie and I hosted the most rocking kumzitz in the entire city last night. Some of our friends came, Shloimie and Nechemiah brought a bunch of friends from school, and between the crew that showed up, we had two guitarists, a fiddler, a saxophonist and […]

There’s a weensy little problem we’ve been having that I haven’t written about until now. I told myself it would go away if I didn’t give it too much attention, but unfortunately, like many issues, I could not make this one magically disappear just by ignoring it. It has become enough of a subplot […]

Back in the 60’s, a whole bunch of people (particularly young people involved with the counterculture hippie world) got turned on to Judaism by a Rabbi named Shlomo Carlebach. He was known as the “The Singing Rabbi” because he wrote thousands of Jewish songs and gave concerts for people all over the world. Reb Shlomo’s […]

After two days of entertaining, I am so exhausted I could fall asleep at my keyboard. Therefore, just a brief pit stop here before I turn in for the night. Our pizza party was a huge success; round the table today was a bunch of friends, old and new: “Uncle” (to Yonah) Seth Perkins, […]

It is currently 6 a.m. here in Israel on the second day of Sukkot. Last night, Shuie spoke to a rabbi who told him that if we only wanted to keep one day of Yom Tov, we were able to do so, even though we’re planning on returning to America. So, last night we […]

I woke up in a black mood this morning, due to a variety of things but predominantly the fact that Yonah has been insisting on getting up at 5:30 each morning for the past week, ever since we moved the clocks back an hour. Both of us get very cranky when we’re tired; let’s […]

I am way to bombed to write anything of real substance tonight, but I will say that my Sukkah is gorgeous thanks to my wonderful husband and the meals should Gd willing be fit for royalty. Yonah has officially learned to shake his head “No” at me, which he finds endlessly amusing (for those […]

Okay, so I need to be honest about something. Up to this point, most of my blog posts have focused on the wonder and growth that are part and parcel to a new life in Israel, and while it has been amazing thus far, it would not be right to say that the transition […]

<p> Okay, so I need to be honest about something. Up to this point, most of my blog posts have focused on the wonder and growth that are part and parcel to a new life in Israel, and while it has been amazing thus far, it would not be right to say that the transition […]