Dear Family, Hello there. I am so sorry it has taken me some time to write. I took the summer off while we were in the US, and when I...

I thought this post would be straightforward to write, but I am finding it harder than I assumed. I took it for granted that it would be...

Are you ready for a language lesson? As you know, I moved to Israel about 10 months ago. I have been studying Hebrew, the language here....

Storm chasers run into the storm. Maybe they like adventure, the thrill of danger, scientific inquiry, or just want to get “the shot.” I...

At 10:00 a scheduled alarm was sounded in Israel today. It is the Holocaust Memorial Day. We remember the darkest period in our...

We spent the day at the Ramon Crater, which is the Israeli version of the Grand Canyon, a geological land form carved from hundreds of...

Image of Struedel from Schaer First, I must tell you that the opening story is not relevant at all. I wish you could skip it, but it...

Someone told me that when you learn a new language, you learn a new culture. It is amazing how differently I learn to see the world with...

You have found Love! I have found love. The Hebrew word for love is ahava, (like the dead sea body care line), and we have found it. Not...

Tonight I leave Tel Aviv on my first trip back since making a new home. We can't undo what we have done. If home is where the heart is,...

Photo of Abraham Lincoln Street, pronounced Avraham Linco-lin in Hebrew, of course. Just call me Miss Understanding, or Ms....

Last night during as we settled in around 8pm, which is called 20:00 around here, we felt a strange sensation. All four of us felt as if...

Magic soup. We eat chicken soup every Friday night with our family Shabbat dinner. I love the idea that the kids have a savory, rich, and...

When we rented our apartment, the owner gave us a tour and told us how things worked. We have lots of keypads in the apartment that...

They say that my generation grew up with repeated news stories of horrific kidnappings and murders of children, so we all believe that...

I love this poem, Tourists, by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. I wish I could read it in Hebrew. Here it is in English. Tourists by Yehuda...

I read a headline that Iran threatens to nuke Tel Aviv any moment. Did I miss the memo coming here? While I keep apprised of current...

I think I like millinery because of all the hats I like to wear. Architects are a “jack of all trades and master of none,” they say. It's...

I'm not going to lie. Visiting day at camp was hard. We knew Eitan and Jonah were going to ask to come home when we got there. They were...

Elie and I are hand holders when we walk together. Since we are walking around Tel Aviv all day, we are holding hands a lot. This first...