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Building and Reuniting
Originally posted in the English E-Newsletter for Yeshivat Har Etzion Alumni Tishrei 5770 As the years pass by, it’s not uncommon for Gushnikim to bump into each other and sometimes even get together to catch up. Yet, how often does it happen that Gushnikim find their paths not only coinciding but also intertwining? After completing Rabbanut [...]
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The big day- back to school
As we approached the beginning of the school year, there was a feeling of excitement in the air. For about a week prior to school starting, whenever you met another parent, the conversation always started with – it’s almost time for school to start. Hooray!!!! Gan started on September 1st, Jonah’s 5th birthday. So it [...]
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Aliyah Tales of Ariel II
Bull’s-eye by Benjamin Laskin Once my processing for Aliyah was well underway, my next major decision became, ?Now, where the heck in Israel am I going to start this new life of mine?? I needed a place to absorb and I hadn?t a clue where to go. So, I did what any serious, sane person [...]
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Aliyah Tales of Ariel
There are a few experiences in life ? that you just get to have once. For better or for worse. They are the kinds of experiences that make you say, ?Woah, is this happening to me?? The ones that can make you feel drunk on life. The major ones are ?Lifecycle Events?. Births, Marriage, [...]
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KASHRUT ALERT ? bakeries
Unfortunately, the Yardena / Condituria Beitit has reduced their kashrut certification to regular kosher only, not mehadrin anymore. This is identical supervision as the bakeries at the two Megas. The immediate repercussion of this is that everything in the bakery becomes ‘behezkat chalavi / milchik / dairy’ – and one should not eat the assumed [...]
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Pesach shopping guide
In a follow up to the Kosher for Pesach (KFP) shopping list that I put in the files section (on the yahoogroups site), here’s my attempt at giving you some grocery shopping tips for Pesach. First and foremost, check each package you put in your shopping cart. Most KFP packaging is similar, if not identical, [...]
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ATTENTION SHOPPERS!
I must have missed the news of this law passing. It must be a law because there’s no way they’d initiate something like this. I had thought that, maybe, it was just one supermarket chain going one up for the customer, but I have now seen it at a few different chains. In Israel, while we [...]
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Concerns about investing
The following is a response that I wrote to a family of olim that is considering moving to Ariel. They, as others before them, expressed their concerns about moving beyond “the green line”. So, how DOES one approach the question of how to approach the geo-political issues related to investing in a home in Ariel? [...]
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Telfed in Ariel
With the growing popularity of Ariel’s Community Aliyah Program word has a way of getting around. True – North American olim and South African olim are not quite the same. Still – they have a lot more in common than their mother tongue, and for one reason or another the South African community has begun to [...]
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Life is Greener on the other side of the Green Line
As all of you know, this blog does not focus on geo-political matters. We do not avoid politics, though it is clearly not the focus of the discussion. We deal only with the facts that pertain to life in Ariel, and the personal perspectives that are experienced through life here. Keeping that in mind, I [...]
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