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May 22, 2018, 2:54 PM

I volunteered for the IDF, part 2

In my prior blog post I talked about the volunteer program before I had experienced it. Now you get the real information about the experience. Wow! What a week it was, started off with Netta Barzilai winning the Eurovision Contest,...

May 13, 2018, 5:58 PM

I Volunteered for the IDF, Part 1

Sunday I got inducted and will go on semi radio silence until my term is completed. This matters to my kids, wife, friends, family, MassChallenge Mentees and clients. Okay, I may have phone service but no wifi, mobile hotspot it is...

Aug 16, 2017, 9:23 AM

5 years….only 2.5 to go

Can you name something you have been doing for 5 years straight with no break? Yes, many of you will say, coffee, parenting, walking your dog and cooking among other things. Some of you will say learning. Even fewer of you...

May 24, 2017, 12:40 PM

When Your Teen Asks to Celebrate Yom Yerushalayim in Jerusalem

When your almost 15-year-old daughter wants to go to Jerusalem with her friends, for Yom Yerushalayim celebrations, what do you tell her? This was the dilemma my wife and I found ourselves the last day or two. In typical confusing...

Feb 1, 2017, 3:04 PM

Stop Raising Haters

If I had titled this, start raising lovers, I would get more clicks, but hear me out first. There is a problem in the world, kids that have yet to reach high school are spouting bad rhetoric they learned. Where...

Jan 1, 2017, 2:29 PM

Seeing Snow for the First Time, in Israel, on Hanukkah

When you live in Israel and come from Florida, snow is not something you expect to see very often, if ever. Personally, I first saw snow when I was in college. I may have been born in Detroit, but moved...

Oct 27, 2016, 3:34 PM

Better Read those Corporate Annual Meeting Amendments

Illustrative view of Tel Aviv at night, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

What benefit does it bring for a company, who has their research and development teams in Israel to remove them solely because they are people who don’t want them to do business here

Aug 12, 2016, 1:23 PM

The 2 year Aliyahversary

After completing our BOGO year, meaning our second year of making aliyah, what have we learned from it all? In some ways, we have seen more of our friends since moving here than we did when we lived in the...

Aug 9, 2016, 12:21 PM

4 Down, 3.5 to Go

In previous years I posted about my Daf Yomi experience on my personal blog, you can read those posts in a new window from year 1, year 2, year 3. As my blog reached 1,000 posts this year, I decided...

Jun 9, 2016, 11:25 AM

I Want to Tell You

When you live outside of Israel, the news here is always viewed through the grain of history. “It happened again”, “another bombing”, more terrorists and so on and so on. Partially because most people have not been here that...

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About Me

Keith Brooks made Aliyah in 2014 with his wife, 3 kids, and their dog. Keith writes about his Aliyah, Israel and Jewish life in general. Keith advises B2B companies on how to approach their potential clients and works with worldwide startups that want to be taken seriously in the US.