In December 2008, 25-year-old Adam Hantman from Kenton, decided to board a Nefesh BeNefesh plane and start a new life in Israel. Only one and a half years later he and his partner Meshi (Mexican Jewish immigrant) have founded their own business and have been crowned the winners of the Israel Business Connections and the [...]
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Apple without the Honey: Not a very sweet New year in 2010
Posted: 20/04/2010 in Aliyah stories, IsraelThis month Apple launched its latest gadget, the iPad. It has been so successful since sales began in the U.S that its availability in other countries has been postponed. However, there has been public outrage over the Israeli Communications Ministries decision to band the iPad in Israel. The Ministry claims that the iPad has been [...]
Some people like to play sports, some like to read, some like to listen to music and some like to follow the events in the Middle East. Following the events in the Middle East from abroad is somewhat comparable to following a soap opera, or following the football. You don’t have to be a Jew [...]
After having a very bad experience with my first job in Israel working for an online Casino, where I was fired for reasons I am questioning whether are even legitimate grounds for firing someone and some extremely unprofessional policies of the organisation and the formation of a contract that most of us would regard as [...]
When one makes Aliyah or presumably moves from any country to another will respond to the change in a variety of ways. I will discuss a few of them and give a few examples from what I have observed amongst many of my peers, how Israelis respond in turn and my current attitudes towards how [...]
As a child I was a big fan of Jim Henson, for those of you who do not know Jim Henson, he was the inventor of the Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street. He also made a few movies, Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. From a young age I aspired to be a film [...]
Upon returning to Israel from a five-week visit to London to see my family after I just finished Ulpan in Jerusalem, I decided that I was going to move to Tel Aviv. If Jerusalem was too religious for me, Tel Aviv is what I can only describe as Jewish Goy city. To sum up, in [...]
“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.” Golda Meir
I realised from the moment during the process of making Aliyah when I was asked if I wished to change my name, now would be a good opportunity to do so, that my Aliyah experience was going to be a very different one to that of the Mizrachim, the Ethiopians and those from the Former [...]
We conclude the Pesach Seder and the Yom Kippur service every year with the line “Next year in Jerusalem.” For Zionism this line has been but one piece of evidence found within Jewish practices that the Jews never lost hope of returning to the land of Zion. Customs, prayers, psalms and traditions were put in [...]
