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Continue reading →: Our absolute favorite easy peasy five ingredient fudgy brownie recipeLooking for a decadent new dessert recipe that is easy to make and will impress your friends? Not only is this recipe quick and easy, it only has five ingredients. It is also dairy-free, and can very easily be made gluten free (or kosher for Pesach). Serve with a dollop…
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Continue reading →: Even Fionists make mistakes. Here are five we regret.Pssst. Guess what? Everyone makes mistakes. Even us. We are not perfect. Just like anyone else, we make mistakes often – and learn from them. Sometimes we don’t communicate properly. At times, we regret the way we handled a parenting situation. And just like anyone else, even we have made…
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Continue reading →: Our Fionist personal update – Q2 2024Welcome to our second Fionist quarterly update of 2024. In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to since the last update and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784. Feel free to click…
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Continue reading →: Finn’s mom’s absolutely refreshing fruit soupFinn here. This past year, my mom passed away. Since then, I have felt more of a need to share the family traditions and recipes I grew up on with my kids. I hope that they will remember these things from their childhoods and will want to pass them on…
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Continue reading →: Tel Aviv City Break: How we celebrated our anniversary in styleRemember our daytrip to Tel Aviv for our anniversary last year? That was lots of fun. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we went back again this year – and stayed the night! The photo above shows the view from our hotel window. Hello, beach! This was our…
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Continue reading →: Do you use a Rav Kav? If you do, you’re probably paying too much.If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you probably know that we are happily car-free and have been for six and a half years now. In that time, not having a car has saved us upwards of 100,000 shekels – which has all been invested instead. While we occasionally…
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Continue reading →: How to read your Israeli pension statementEach quarter and at the end of each year, you should receive this document from the investment company that manages your pension account. Many people, including us in the past, would just ignore it and forget about it. However, not knowing what’s going on in your pension can be costly.…
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Continue reading →: Taking extended parental leave? Make sure to read this first.Mazal tov on your precious new baby! Have you ever thought to yourself – or heard someone say: “With the cost of daycare so high, it just makes more sense for me to stay home.” This is a particularly common misconception, especially among parents of two or more small children…
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Continue reading →: Our kids love this DIY money game – as do we. Here’s how to play.Remember COVID? Of course you do. Around this time four years ago, we were locked down at home with a stir-crazy and very creative three-year-old who really wanted to get out and go shopping. She informed us that she was heading to the store, pushed a laundry basket to our…
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Continue reading →: Our Fionist personal update – Q1 2024Welcome to our first Fionist quarterly update of 2024! In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to in the first three months of this year and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784.…
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