Jewish Bloggers Carnival: Haveil Havalim #240 The Aliyah Edition

Let me just tell you that I am more than happy to be hosting this week's Heveil Havalim.

I have been blogging since 2005 and have been aware and appreciative of Soccer Dad's initiative "Haveil Havalim" since the inception of my recreational blogging career.  However, it was only recently that I found out exactly what the Jewish Blogger Carnival was all about.

What is Heveil Havalim? 

Here is a snyopsis of what Heveil Havalim is from the blog Frum Satire:

"The Jewish Bloggers Carnival is hosted each week by a different blogger who volunteers by emailing Jack at talktojacknow@scglobal.net, if you want to submit your post or posts (don’t be greedy – I usually submit one) just use the Jewish Bloggers Carnival Submission Form. Posts submitted get emailed in that form to whomever is hosting that week, then that person
compiles a post with a bunch of links to posts of random blogs."

The most interesting part of the experience for me as host of  Haveil Havalim is being able to be in touch with famous bloggers, some of which are quite famous, from all type of Jewish and religious backgrounds from around the world!  Here are this week's submissions for the Jewish Bloggers Carnival:

ALIYAH

* Ruti Mizrachi is an Olah Hadash who now lives in Neve Daniel and has a blog titled Ki Yachol Nuchal!. She wrote that she wishes that Heveil Havalim would have a category called "ALIYAH" so I added that category to this edition of Heveil Havalim. She submitted a post titled "There is a place for you here" about reinventing yourself after aliyah.

* I started this blog in anticipation of making aliyah which I hope to do later in summer 2010 (please email if you have any aliyah advice for me). I try to post articles relating to Eretz Yisroel, about my upcoming aliyah, or about aliyah in general. I post for me for this week was about Dr. Rebetzin Rivkah Adler is finally going to be making aliyah this year and I posted a link to an interview where she was interviewed by Go'el Jasper).

*Mominsrael A Mother in Israel) and Risa (Isramom), both olim, both wrote about their experiences with Jbloggers that got together one night at Petach Tikva.   See their posts Blogger’s Night Out in Petach Tikva (Updated) and Meeting and Greeting! Risa also posted an article title: What's In A Name? Risa in an olah to Rechovot (Risa, I know 2 really nice families in Rehovot - the Abrams from Scotland and the Marcus from South Africa - do you know either of them?). I was unable to find any information about Mominisrael from her webpage.

*Yisroel Medad submitted four posts for thie edition of Haveil Havalim. He is american born and moved to Israel in 1970. He has lived in Shiloh since 1981. He has been a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister. He now works at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem and serves as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria. Maybe I will meet you one day after I make aliyah.

Yisroel presents 4 posts.  First he presents Who Will Invite the C-G to a Jewish Olive Harvest Event? saying, "Yisrael Medad thinks an invitation should be extended to the US Consul-General to attend a Jewish olive harvest event."  He also presents My Right Word: Grass Skirts All The Rage "MyRightWord, in a bit of family nostalgia, recalls when grass skirts were the rage."  He also presents My Right Word: On Palestine Policing - Mandate Days, saying, "If Mandate history interests you, MyRightWord has got something quite interesting." Finally, he presents Tweet Torah saying, "Have you heard of Tweet Torah? At "From the Hills of Efraim", Yisrael Medad wonders a nit."

*Jacob Richman is one of my heros although I never have met him. I find one of the hardest things about making aliyah is the negativity a lot of Jews have about moving to Israel, saying this about the rotten economy, the rotten politicians, the terrorism, etc. His webpages gives a lot of chizuk to us in chutz l'aretz by always being so positive. He tells us that "There are jobs in Israel!" and names his Blog "Good News from Israel. He posted an article for Parashat Noach.

*Batya, aka Muse, who lives in Shilo in Israel, wrote this amazing post about her father whole made aliyah at the age of 89. She also had posts about Antisemitism, Can It Be Stopped? and Super (InterGenerational) Sandwich: Not Easy.

*Maya is an olah who lives in Northern Israel that wrote a post About my sudden return to the world of blogging...  It is about "How to Be Israeli is back! The link explains what made her return. She has other posts this week cover weighty issues such as whether Israeli can be considered to have fall foliage, Isra-fab decorating sense, reflections on the chagim, Danish modern furniture (purchased with lirot!), and the creative euphemisms used for pork in non-kosher grocery stores.

(I originally wanted to write a bio for every post but ran out of time.  Here are the rest of the posts submitted this week. :)  )

ISRAEL

*Rachel Barenblat presents A conference call with Judge Goldstone posted at Velveteen Rabbi, saying, "A transcript of, and reflections on, a rabbinic conference call with Judge Goldstone of the Goldstone Report."

*David Morris presents The Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem? posted at Tzedek-Tzedek, saying, "Why the Palestinians are NOT Israel's allies against the Iranian Nuclear Bomb..."

*Daniel Fuchs presents The Insanity Continues: More Tohar Haneshek posted at THE JEWISH FIST: A Call to Resurrect the Jewish Scholar-Warrior of Old..

*Harry presents Back to school daze.  He also presents My Israeli flag, love it or not and The Israeli Newman posted at Israelity.

*Mordechai Torczyner presents Defending Israeli Exceptionalism posted at The Rebbetzin's Husband.

*rickismom presents The Wrong Number posted at Beneath the Wings.

*Shmuel Sokol presents Exclusive Interview with Adnan Husseini posted at תורת ישראל, saying, "I conducted an exclusive interview with former Waqf director and Abbas adviser and aide, Adnan Husseini regarding the recent violence on Har Habayit. A highlight: he compared terrorists memorialized in the PA to Jews naming things after David Ben-Gurion."

*Annette Berlin presents Renovating Masada (with Fotoflexer) posted at Craft Stew, saying, "Here are some before and after photos of a daytrip to Masada."

*leah aharoni presents This is just shocking... posted at Ingathered.

CULTURE


*Elisson presents ON THE HEADGEAR OF RED SEA PEDESTRIANS posted at Blog d'Elisson.

*Eliyahu Fink presents iTalmud English Edition: Review posted at Pacific Jewish Center | Rabbi, saying, "Review of great iPhone app."

*Lady-Light presents A Serious Review for a Superficial Movie posted at Tikkun Olam, saying, "I hope that most Jews are not as clueless and helpless as the protagonist in this film; I hope most Jews don't just let life "happen" around them, without actively working at their marriage, child-raising and careers. And I know that most Rabbis would not dismiss a man who is pleading for help, regardless of their denomination."


HUMOR


*Toby Curwin presents We don't got no double negatives posted at A Time of the Signs, saying, "Thank you!"

*Mrs. S. presents A blog by any other name posted at Our Shiputzim: A Work In Progress, saying, "Thanks for doing this!"

*Linda Jones presents 50 Serious Games for Social Change posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

JUDAISM


*Schvach Yid presents Schvach - פני דל posted at Schvach - פני דל.

*Shira Salamone presents "Hachnasat orchim" or "dumbing down?" posted at ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT, saying, "How can synagogues or minyanim accommodate those still in the learning stage without making long-time pray-ers feel that their own prayer experience is being interfered with?"

*Yechezkel presents The Good News - The More it Gets Better, the More it Gets Worse posted at Achas L'Maala V'Sheva L'Matta, saying, "A mathematical analysis of the chareidi shidduch crisis - it's worse than most of us think."

*Shira Salamone presents Tolerance and/or standards? posted at ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT, saying, "How do *you* manage the balance? I don't have a clue."

*Avraham Rephael (aka Bar Kochba) presents The Road to Assimilation posted at For Zion's Sake.


PERSONAL




rickismom presents The Grocery Store Bandit posted at Beneath the Wings.

*Home Shuling presents A month without holidays?if only posted at Home-shuling.

*Robert J. Avrech presents My Chinese Spy posted at Seraphic Secret, saying, "A Hollywood screenwriter gets to know a Communist Chinese spy."


ANTISEMITISM

*Lady-Light presents "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"* And Then Some. posted at Tikkun Olam, saying, "I had difficulty choosing a category in which to place this post; it's culture, and it's history, but ultimately it may just boil down to plailn ol' anti-Semitism: Israel, the IDF (definition: THE JEWS) can do no RIGHT."

MISC

* SnoopyTheGoon presents So who is wise? And who is astonished? posted at SimplyJews.  He also presented  It is me, o Lord! posted at SimplyJews.

*Mottel presents Letters of Thought: New York, Do You Love Your Jews? posted at Letters of Thought..  Mottel presents The Highest Sukkah in the World posted at Letters of Thought.

TORAH


*Josh Waxman presents Did Chava Speak Parseltongue? posted at parshablog.


*Rachel Barenblat presents This week's portion: blameless posted at Velveteen Rabbi, saying, "This week's Torah poem explores a different side of Noah. (Note to host: I'm submitting two posts this week, one in Israel and one in Torah; feel free to choose one or the other, or to include both.)"

*Mordechai Torczyner presents What makes a good עלון (weekly dvar torah newsletter)? posted at The Rebbetzin's Husband.

*Shira Salamone presents Parshat B'reishit: Fun with the DH :) (and more) posted at ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT, saying, "Two different Creation stories using two different names for G-d, plus "sons of god," "Nefilim," and the sudden appearance of women out of nowhere--what more could one ask? :)"


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