Northern Profiles: Dan and Ellie Schlanger
By Hillel Kuttler Upon entering Dan Schlanger’s home on the first morning of summer, I hardly expected to see [...]
Northern Profiles: Shlomo and Karen Strugano
By Hillel Kuttler Shlomo Strugano steers his white minivan into the driveway on a recent morning after driving his [...]
Northern Profiles: Jonathan and Jessica Ben-kiki
By Hillel Kuttler For some people, a spiritual moment precipitated their decisions to move to Israel. For Jessica Ben-kiki, the [...]
Northern Roundtable: Haifa’s Kiryat Shmuel
By Hillel Kuttler It’s a Wednesday night, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and several North Americans have gathered [...]
Northern Profiles: Akiva and Tzivia MacLeod
By Hillel Kuttler Akiva and Tzivia MacLeod didn’t bring many belongings from Toronto upon moving their family to Israel in [...]
Lech Lecha is…
Anyone who has made Aliyah can relate to Avraham being told by Hashem to leave everything he’s ever known and to go to the Land that “I will show you.” There is a level of trust here that you can only understand fully when you experience it.
Cholim Chadashim
I want to take a moment to address a misconception I believe a lot of people have about the Israeli climate. Israel has winter. Winter in Israel brings with it the usual crop of sniffles, the flu and the standard homegrown cold. In addition to all the standard ailments, a lot of olim are surprised to find themselves feeling ill for longer periods than they are used to or getting sick more often than they did back in their native countries.








