Although this post was originally published on Times of Israel in April 2020, you are welcome to read it here! The first post in this series is right here, and the second one is right here. In the morning, once rested and fed, our youngest (age 4) asked us a series of 4-year-old questions. Why did we visit the airport and come back “home”? Were we visiting the airport because it was lonely? I had explained to him, months earlier, that it is a mitzvah to visit the sick. He the

Although this post was originally published on Times of Israel in April 2020, you are welcome to read it here! The first post in this 3-part series can be read right here. A week before we moved into the house, still without passports, we got a call from my mom in Jerusalem. Her neighbor had heard on the news that Israel was sending a rescue flight to Indonesia. We understood that rescue flights were being sent to Peru and India, but there are no diplomatic relations between

Although originally published on Times of Israel on April 14, 2020, you are welcome to read this post here as well. “I have a Platinum Amex card with hundreds of thousands of points. It’s yours — use it if it will help.” “My friend works at the US State Department — I will get you on the phone with him — perhaps he can assist?” “I know a rabbi in Jakarta in case you get stuck on your way — here’s his number — he’ll make sure you have meals.” These are among the many Facebook