Where What WhenArticles about AliyaThe New Olim: North American Rabbis Aliyah awareness is up. The biggest reason for this change is undoubtedly Nefesh B'Nefesh, founded in 2002; the organization crisscrosses the U.S. and the U.K. delivering the resounding message that aliyah is a viable option for Jews in every demographic. Indeed, Nefesh B'Nefesh is in Baltimore on an average of every three months to provide information on the specifics of the aliyah process ............Read More By Y. Reiss Volume: March 2010 From Here to the Holy Land - the Ascent Continues In fact, according to Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN)...close to 500 individuals have made aliyah from Baltimore since 2002 - ninety-seven of them in 2009 alone ............Read More By Sharon N. Galkin Volume: Chanukah December 2009 Our Third Year Since Making Aliya With so many interesting and inspiring aspects of living in Israel, I felt it was time again to share with our dear friends and family back in Baltimore some of our family's experiences ............Read More By David Blass Volume: May 2009 One Bite at a Time: What to Do When Considering Aliya As the coordinator of the Baltimore Chug Aliyah, I have the opportunity to coach people who are just beginning to think about making aliya.Planning aliya, even thinking about the possibility of someday, maybe, planning aliya, can be overwhelming. It's such a huge undertaking. Where does one begin? ............Read More By Rivkah Lambert Adler Volume: April 2009 Summer is here and we find ourselves at the conclusion of our second year since making aliya. Summer is here and we are amazed to suddenly find ourselves nearly at the conclusion of our second year since making aliya.Although in the U.S., people are insistent upon proper line etiquette but don’t take jaywalking too seriously, in Israel it is quite the opposite. Only “friars” (loosely translated as the pathologically naïve) actually wait in line, yet, for some strange reason, everyone is quite rigid about not crossing the street against the light, even when there is nary a car in sight. ............Read More By David Blass Volume: August 2008 More than two years ago, a 99-year-old Baltimore woman became one of the oldest people ever to make aliya to Israel. ............Read More By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Volume: July 2008 Our First Year Comes to an End The Blass Family Most of the summer has passed, new olim are arriving, and we are amazed to realize that we have been in Eretz Yisrael for just over a full year.From 150,000 to 5.5 million in two generations? From swamps, desert, stones, and wild animals, to cities, towns, farms, trains, highways, trees and flowers, yeshivot and sefarim, batei knesset and siyumei hashas, factories and exports, universities and Nobel prizes, in two generations? Before long, we were both in tears and full of appreciation to Hashem. ............Read More By David Blass Volume: November 2007 There has never been a better time to make aliya then now A Baltimore Oleh Shares his Employment ExperiencesEmployment has always been a primary area of concern for American olim, most of whom are educated, experienced, and have developed successful careers in the United States. ............Read More By Aliza Israel Volume: July 2007 It started off innocently enough. First, the ever-present stock of Pepperidge Farm cookies (an imported-from-America special for all the new immigrants!) began to rapidly disappear from the makolet (small grocery store) shelves. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: May 2007 Our Aliya – The Next Few Months A few more months have passed since our aliya this past August. More boxes are unpacked (though many still remain!), our Ivrit is beginning to pick up, and we wanted to share some further experiences with our beloved family and friends. ............Read More By David Blass Volume: Purim March 2007 It has been just two months since we arrived in Eretz Yisrael, and our boxes are not yet completely unpacked. Yet so much has happened in this brief period – so many experiences, impressions, and feelings – that we wanted to find some way of concretizing them and sharing them with our dear friends in Baltimore. ............Read More By David Blass Volume: November 2006 Keeping Us Our Brothers’ Keepers Lema’an AchaiWe Baltimoreans have been keeping up with the Leventhals since their aliya to Eretz Yisrael a year ago via Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal’s articles about frustrating-cum-amusing aspects of aliya, as well as daughter Nechama’s tales of her teenage adjustment woes and school escapades. Now, Rabbi Leventhal surprises us once again. He has been appointed the new executive director of the comprehensive Ramat Bet Shemesh ............Read More By Avrohom Leventhal Volume: November 2006 Getting an Israeli Driver’s License The Lighter Side of YissurimChazal tell us that Eretz Yisrael is one of those dear things which is only acquired through yissurim, suffering. The yissurim that come to mind might include parnassa (livelihood), difficulty with language, and acclimating to the new (and very different) culture. I would like to offer another angle on yissurim based on a teaching from parshas Shemos. ............Read More By Avrohom Leventhal Volume: October 2006 It starts off subtly enough – a mere hoarse whisper, at first – but soon builds up to a resounding buzz capable of rivaling the most boisterous fly caught in the Venetian blinds. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: August 2006 Contrary to my previous belief that the only suitable places for school field trips were Fort McHenry, the Maryland Historical Society, the Science Center, or, if we were feeling really adventurous, Patapsco State Park (for the 15th time) – I have now discovered an entirely new venue for a relaxing, math-free, school outing. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: July 2006 Among history’s popular clichés is the expression “don’t take it for granted.” What does this mean? How does one “take something for granted”? When deriving benefit from someone or something without sufficient appreciation, it is referred to as “taking it for granted.” ............Read More By Avrohom Leventhal Volume: June 2006 ’ll be honest. Even though I have an increasing number of friends living in Israel, I never seriously considered making aliya. In fact, a few years ago, my husband drove me around to every Jewish cemetery in Baltimore, ............Read More By Rivkah Lambert Adler Volume: Pesach April 2006 For those of you who missed me the month before last – and even for those of you who didn’t notice my brief hiatus – I’m b-a-a-a-c-k! Please accept this “absence note,” as it were – not from school but, rather, because of school. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: Purim March 2006 I recall one of the initial weeks into our move, when, overcome by intense hunger (possibly induced by 115-degree weather) I gratefully entered the air-conditioned pizza shop across the street from my building. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: February 2006 My Aliya DiaryWhen we were living in Baltimore, a large Jewish community, the Yamim Tovim were always very tangible. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: November 2005 Above the Clouds and Down to EarthThe writer is a teenager making aliya with her family, Rabbi and Mrs. Avrohom Leventhal. She agreed to keep us, her former neighbors, informed of her thoughts, feelings, and experiences as she progresses from pre-aliya to full absorption into the Israeli scene. ............Read More By Nechama Leventhal Volume: Rosh Hashanah September 2005 |
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