Almost Eden by Tehillah Hessler
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Continued from yesterday… Later in the day I received a call from Yisrael’s 5th grade teacher asking why he hadn’t gone on the class trip. From the permission slip that was sent home on paper (we’ve yet to receive the electronic communications we’ve been requesting for 3+ years) we determined that the 5th & 6th …
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Where in the world does one find an army that concerns itself with the happiness of its soldiers to the point that it connects them with families to make them feel at home when they’re away from their own families? Imagine an army… where the commanding officer phones and interviews families to ensure a good …
Originally blogged at Almost Eden on February 9, 2011 While reading a great post by my friend Rivkah, I was reminded of something that happened in our home on Sunday… Yisrael was frantic because the HOT (cable) box seemed to be malfunctioning and he was being deprived of an American cartoon he likes to watch …
One of the most humbling (i.e., humiliating) things about making Aliyah has been my inability to conduct “business as usual” due to my poor Hebrew skills. A few weeks ago I needed to deposit a check that someone gave us. When I entered the bank a young employee snatched me out of the teller line …
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