אי שם מעבר לים

Or: Yes, all those cliches are true.

Hi all! Aviad told me to go write a post.

First, I would like to thank everyone who commented on my name-post, it was all helpful (any other comments are welcome).

We wanted to tell you about our Shabat dinner last Friday at my parents' very good yordim friends who lived in Even Yehuda. Wonderful people. And to the cliche part - really good Jews! We had a full Shabat kiddush with lyrics and music unknown to us. A Yerushalmi who is in the States for 1 year was also invited, and all 4 of us (Aviad, brother, Yerushalmi and myself) were the only ones around the big table who had no idea what was going on.. Our wonderful hosts admitted that they started this tradition 10 years ago. So, always nice practicing your Judaism in the Gola.

To other news, we finally acted as tourists a few days ago and walked around the "North End" in Boston. The Italians were having some festival there (sorry, Aviad would probably attach a link). It was amazing. Other than the fact that we seemed to have found Aviad’s heaven (Italian restaurants everywhere), the place was absolutely - how should I say - 'Chul'! Clean (well, besides the left-overs from the Saturday market), summery (mmm besides the cool weather), and with an impressive Holocaust monument (pictures to be attached later on). 

I think we're gonna like this place.

Just to clarify to anyone who might be alarmed: we don't see ourselves as living in the Gola, we are just temporarily out of town.