Posts from ‘September, 2008’

We just found out today that our kids are going on one long holiday as of tomorrow. It’s Rosh Hashana tomorrow, then another weekend, then Yom Kippur, a weekend and the long holiday of Sukkot. So, our school decided to bridge over the entire thing and merge it into one long holiday of almost 3 [...]

We went to the first of the two weddings last night and it was absolutely magnificent. It’s been a while since we’ve been emotionally moved by a wedding ceremony like we were last night. It was a very unusual wedding, in that the young couple chose a totally secular service, without a Rabbi. This service [...]

Asaf is an Israeli teenager who has recently been diagnosed with permanent kidney failure. His family is looking for a live donor who can donate a kidney to Asaf. Donor must be of blood type O or B - it’s a long process of evaluations, obviously, but the blood type is the initial criterion.
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Internet traffic is a strange thing. As a webmaster, I always check to see how people got to my site, through which search engines and which search terms. Some funny ones for this blog, I admit. Since some of them are obviously looking for info regarding Israel, I thought I’d pick a few and address [...]

Next week it’s Rosh Ha’Shana, the Jewish New Year Eve. I think it’s Monday evening. This year, we’re having a week of celebrations pretty much, as we’re ending this year with a wedding, then starting the next year with another  wedding.
First, it’s IsraeliDad’s niece who’s getting married on Thursday. Sweet young couple, about to leave [...]

We’re still going! Very much so, even, but we’re thinking about making some changes. Apparently, return flights where you fly to and back from the same destination are much cheaper than one-ways. That means that flying to Tucson from London costs over $800 a ticket, just one way. A return (two ways) ticket from London [...]

The good news is that the kids are in school. And they’re fairly happy there, so it seems. This new school is very different from the schools we had back when I was growing up.
Ron, the first-grader, can choose which subjects he wants to take. Math and Hebrew (reading and writing) are the only subjects [...]

I confess. I was probably a lot more nervous about the start of the new school year than the kids were. I blame it on my own personal trauma of spending years in the schools of the Israeli Education System of the 1970’s and 80’s. I can’t say I remember much from the lessons, so [...]