Whew--the end of the season is upon us!  Today, Penina and a friend took a special "only-running-during-the-Holidays" bus at 5:30 ...

Well, it's been an intense season here, with the holidays coming one on the heels of the next (although I will take this year's sche...

Sunday was Day 1 for Penina and Ilana.  In Israel, some schools start on September 1 and some schools start on the first day of the Hebrew m...

Every time I come across, say, the garbage man who wears a kippah , or the plumber, librarian, police officer, etc etc who are religious, I ...

For me, Shabbos shopping starts Tuesday night, when our vegetable box (aka THE BOX) gets delivered.  Similar to a CSA box in the US (and a b...

Ilana is at "adventure camp" in the Golan now, and I wanted to share a few things that I find interesting about camps here: 1) s...

Most of the schools that I run health clinics at have closed down for the summer.  I'm down to working only two days at week at a semina...