I kind of can't believe that's the big news around here, but so be it. When we "bought on paper" 2.5 years ago, we were t...

 Wow, after almost 11 years in our rented house, we have moved to the apartment that we "bought on paper" (see last post). It was/...

 If that statement made your ears hurt, well, I get where you're coming from. It now sounds totally normal to me, though :) In Israel, t...

Whew! Shalom Shachne's 10 day trip to visit our kids in NY and then his mother and brothers in California was great and, unlike last tim...

 Things have, thankfully, continued to feel more "normal". On Friday, all war-related restrictions were lifted: This evening, we h...

 When Chana was here, I actually left Beit Shemesh for the first time since the war started on February 28! Saturday night we went to the Ko...

A lot of the lead-up to this year's  Yom HaShoah , Holocaust Memorial Day, focused on the siren and making sure that as many people as p...