Here's a follow-up to an earlier post: This is what it's like to take the bus in the morning here: 1) Wait by the bus stop 2) ...

Woohoo!   Par-ty!!!!  Well, since it was a party at ulpan and resembled (more than a bit) a school's kindergarten show, we won't ge...

Since yesterday, much of the Middle East has been enveloped in a very large dust storm, the worst in Israel in 15 years, according to the Je...

Cardboard is my new favorite building material: here are our bookshelves We have a bunch of them--all a set (good thing the recycling bi...

Three times a year the Beit Shemesh Blood Drive is held.  I signed up to volunteer while we were still in the US.  I was assigned to either ...

We are very big library users, so, of course, we were delighted that the library here has a small English language section.  The challenge i...

EZG: No real theme here, just miscellany from the past few days: --Thursday, Ilana tried out an after-school dance class.  She LOVED it an...