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Moving Up - The Aliya Blog
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011
I was heading toward a Jerusalem bus stop, one morning, for the last leg of my journey to work. Fully loaded, as usual, with a stuffed computer bag on one shoulder, a purse on the other, I had my variety of can’t-leave-home-without-’em gadgets in my hands. I clipped my iPod onto one of my pockets, stuffed the earbuds into my ears, and sauntered up the street to Duran Duran, while browsing my Android smartphone for any emails that may...
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Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Just days before Gilad Shalit's expected release, I was perusing a list of the “Top 5 most spectacular things to do in Israel on Sukkot.” I was struck by the amazing-looking, two-day Hot Air Balloon Festival, scheduled to take place Monday and Tuesday of Chol HaMoed in the Lower Galilee. I was captivated by the promotional photos of beautiful hot-air balloons floating in the sky. I found a soon-to-run-out coupon on one of those...
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Thursday Jun 23, 2011
Lucky for me, my passion for Aliyah has not only led to my Aliyah, but to several paths wherein I could help others in their Aliyah. In fact not much gives me a better feeling than when people attribute even the smallest part of their Aliyah to inspiration they received from me either through my book or my articles, or a speaking engagement in one place or another. All pretty standard ways to provide inspiration assuming you have something...
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Wednesday Jun 01, 2011
As big Dvir fans (the cartoon), and fellow Gush Etzion residents, I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of Rabbi Uri Dasberg z"l in a tragic car accident last week. When my neighbor Alan Rosen showed me the article that the tragedy moved him to compose I was only too happy to give him space in my blog to publish it. Drive safely everyone. ~Laura
A decade ago when I took my young children to the Jerusalem book fair, they were...
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Monday May 02, 2011
Sometimes it’s good to make the list. Apparently, I still manage to be on the “Join Us – You Would Do Cool Things” list so when my friend Renana Levine invited me to come to a project planning meeting for a cool video she was coordinating, I agreed without hesitation. Little did I know, this escapade would last four hours after the eight I had already put in at the office. I never saw my little ones that day;...
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About This Blog
Laura Ben-David made Aliyah with her family in 2002 from Boca Raton, Florida. Inspired by the Aliyah experience, Laura began writing and hasn't...
Laura Ben-David made Aliyah with her family in 2002 from Boca Raton, Florida. Inspired by the Aliyah experience, Laura began writing and hasn't stopped. She is the author of numerous articles and the book, Moving Up: An Aliyah Journal.
