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Tue,May 15,2012
23 Iyyar 5772
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Israeli in Progress
Sunday May 06, 2012
Just before sitting down to write this blog (that's been itching inside me for days), I read fellow blogger Rebecca Bermeister's latest entry in her "Aliya Journal," also featured on The Jerusalem Post. She writes that her brother gave her some sage advice before making aliya. He told her:
"You can't change them, so don't try."
My first immediate reaction when I read her words was to chuckle and think to myself...
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Tuesday May 01, 2012
When I first moved to Israel, before I got my full-time job, I started networking in search of freelance writing work. I had already started blogging about my aliya experience and had gotten positive feedback from both friends and colleagues. One of my colleagues suggested I reach out to Kveller.com, a new blog for Jewish parents, thinking they would be interested in syndicating my column or writing a similar one.
I wrote to the...
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Monday Apr 23, 2012
We’re deep into Israel’s nationalistic stretch: The days encompassing Yom HaShoah, YomHaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut (Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s Fallen Soldiers Remembrance Day, and Independence Day). There is certainly much for a new oleh to observe and reflect upon during this time. But the truth is, I still feel very much an outsider when it comes to honoring Israel’s fallen and celebrating the...
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Monday Mar 19, 2012
When I really want to feel life, I put on Billy Joel’s Songs in the Attic and drive to work.
It doesn’t have to be Billy Joel. Jackson Browne also works. Depending on the season, so does Randy Newman or the Beach Boys or Elvis Costello’s and Burt Bacharach’s Painted from Memory. In fact, I created a “Songs that Move Me” mix for the very purpose of crying in the car.
If I was more disciplined, I would commit to...
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2012
As I was getting my kids into the bath last night, I heard a helicopter fly by close over our house. And I didn’t jump or startle.
I must be getting used to Israel.
When we first moved here, I jumped at every little sound: Not just the military helicopters flying by, but any loud booming noise; of which there are many in rural Northern Israel. Sometimes the sound comes from a digger breaking ground on a new lot; sometimes it’s an...
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About This Blog
Jen Maidenberg is a writer, blogger, and new olah who just wants to fit in already.
Jen Maidenberg is a writer, blogger, and new olah who just wants to fit in already.
