What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Originally blogged at Almost Eden on March 3, 2011 I’ve received a lot of great feedback from yesterday’s post (Are you Too Old to Make Aliyah?), thanks to all of you who wrote to me offline. Since you’re already in that change state of mind (if you’re considering Aliyah, that is), another useful exercise to …

Are You Too Old to Make Aliyah?

Originally blogged at Almost Eden on March 2, 2011 There has been a very popular discussion thread taking place on the Nefesh B’Nefesh LinkedIn group for more than 2 weeks regarding older olim, employment and living in the northern part of Israel. There were more than 100 comments when I logged in tonight and I …

When all else fails – Reboot!

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 …