The existing infrastructure I've seen so far does one thing, and one thing only:
It matches new olim with entry-level BDR/SDR jobs in tech companies. They are hired for their English, and does not account for the immigrants' other gifts, skills, or personalities.
This, I think, works only for a certain category of oleh. Somebody young and inexperienced and whose personality is well-suited to this kind of role.
Went to the North Korean restaurant in Moscow, back in 2021.
It was an absolute hole in the wall - a rarity for restaurants of that calibre in the capital.
It reminded more of the underground, certainly unregulated, Chinese restaurants that I had visited with my classmates - students themselves from China. None of the typically courteous service of Russian restaurants, but excellent homestyle food.
The portions at the North Korean restaurant were tasty but small. Not luxurious - again homestyle - but expensive. There was certainly no way it could compete with the plethora of South Korean restaurants that were popping up in Western Russia at the time.
I'm certain the restaurant stayed afloat merely as a curiosity for the slightly more adventurous, beyond what I'm sure were more nefarious machinations behind the scenes.
Dinner at North Korean restaurant in Shenyang.
We can't film North Korean waitresses to maintain the fiction that China is enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea
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The other day, I asked a colleague who had come from the Soviet Union how it had been. Had he experienced anti-semitism?
"Not once," he said.
Not in the (final years of the) Red Army, not in university. Not at the start of his career in the 90s, before his immigration to Israel.
I myself lived and studied in Russia from 2016-22. My experience (albeit as a Jewish foreigner, in a very different time) was much the same. So I believed him.
I then realized I had asked him the same somewhat bothersome question I frequently get here (as someone who had moved to Israel from the USA).
Had I ever experienced anti-semitism in the States?
"No, not really," I say. "I have to admit."
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Between the ages of 17 and 20 I tried very hard to become a jazz bassist.
I quite literally lived the movie Whiplash, including (almost) flipping over my car once, when late to rehearsal.
I owe much of what is unique about me to this period of my life.
It's also a part of my life I rarely ever talk about, and I haven't really touched a bass since that time.
14 years later I am still not sure I've fully processed those experiences.