Monthly Archives: August 2008

My Family and the House on Mt. Carmel

When I was a child, we used to live in a house (Bayit, בית) that my grandparents built on top of Mount Carmel (har hakarmel, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל) in Haifa. They built the house in the 1930s, when the area was pretty wild and people were encouraged to build there. My mother was born there and [...]

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The First Jewish Bloggers Convention

The First International Jewish Bloggers Convention took place in Jerusalem, Israel. About 200 bloggers attended the event, and 1,200 more watched the live broadcast. The convention was organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh. While all blogs represented at the conference dealt in some way or another with life in Israel, the spectrum ranged from immigration through carrying [...]

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Welcome to Israel: 235 Jewish immigrants arrived at the Holy land

235 new immigrants (עולים חדשים) landed in Ben Gurion airport, Israel, on August 13th. The Jewish immigrants made aliyah (עליה) from North America to Israel. These “Olim Xadashim” came to Israel thanks to the cooperation of “Jewish Agency for Israel” (הסוכנות היהודית) and “NBN” – “Nefesh B’Nefesh” (נפש בנפש). It’s very exciting when new Olim [...]

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