Summer (Aliyah!) Break and Updates

🇮🇱 I'm signing off for a few weeks as my family makes aliyah, but I'll be back in time for your Av newsletter, writing from my new home in Modiin. In the meantime, some updates.

That’s little me in the photo above, taken on a trip to Jerusalem. I’m standing in the Armenian Quarter, according to the note on the photo. Shortly after it was taken, my parents left for a postdoc in the United States. We were supposed to be here for two years; I never stopped wanting to go home. Next week, I am finally fulfilling that dream. My famil…