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Reuven Bobby Weinmann

Jun 21, 2018, 12:48 PM

Illustrative: A group meeting for a 'P'sukei D'zimra' morning service before the main Shabbat worship service at the Reform biennial in San Diego, December 14, 2013. (URJ via JTA/File)

At some point, the priority of complete personal autonomy in matters of religion stopped working for me

May 6, 2018, 10:34 PM

Eight months into aliyah, consistency is the one thing I miss most from the old country. Granted, things weren't perfect there, but, at risk of a pun, On the one hand, things improve all the time. Remember when you...

Apr 20, 2018, 5:39 PM

IDF Service and Torah Learning — What Is the Intention?

Today was my first Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day as an Israeli. It was a great day. A very emotional day, which ends a very emotional week. We've had Yom Hashoah, commemorating the Holocaust; Yom Hazikaron, for those who've...

Mar 30, 2018, 1:38 PM

What They Don’t Tell an Oleh: ‘Renewing Your Car Tags’

As a new oleh, the most challenging thing I find is the different set of assumptions. Lots of everyday things are analogous, but just different. It's not that "we did it better in America" - although, sometimes we did....

About Me

Reuven (sometimes Bobby) came from a mixed Jewish-Christian background. He became ba'al teshuva (Jewishly observant) in his 20s with the intention of making aliyah, which didn't happen until his 40s. His daughter, Shani, also blogs and serves in the IDF as a medic. She was a lone soldier until her parents made aliyah in 2017.