by Elyshia Johnson | Dec 2, 2019 | News from the Land, Newsletters
Neve Zuf is a lovely, yet relatively isolated community. Founded in 1977, it was one of the first communities to be settled in Samaria. When my husband Ed and I came to Israel in 1982 for a visit, in anticipation of our Aliyah, we were asked by our Aliyah group in...
by Elyshia Johnson | Jul 8, 2019 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By: Meira Weber Before I made Aliyah, I used to hear lots of American Jews repeat the same Hebrew saying: libi b’mizrach v’anochi basof hama’arav. Translated, it means, “My heart is in the east, but I am in the west.” I always wondered about that saying. It felt right...
by Kim Troup | Jan 22, 2018 | Reflections from Israel
By: Avital Stern-Buchnick Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Aliyah’s story begins five years before she was born. Her parents, Avital and Michael Ezer were a young newly married couple in Soviet Russia. They were respected researchers in their fields and had big plans for the...
by Kim Troup | Aug 22, 2017 | Reflections from Israel
August 22, 2017 BY: Shira Schwartz When we made Aliyah, moving to Israel 25 years ago, we arrived at the airport to family we barely knew jumping up and down in excitement and welcoming signs and Israeli flags. We squeezed ourselves into their vans and started on our...
by Kim Troup | Mar 20, 2012 | Reflections from Israel
July 2011 I just came home from being abroad for six days. The trip was my mother’s idea and it was an incredible one! My mother, my two sisters, Judy and Batya, and my brother-in-law Richie, live in America, all in the New York area, and my husband and I live in...
