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...

 No, not jelly beans in a jar.... Data was just released showing how many pre-alerts and sirens various parts of the country had during the ...

 The best thing about Pesach this year was that, against all odds, Chana was able to come in. It took her three tickets to get a flight that...