There are a variety of options for how to begin the process, but all involve study with a rabbi. Some people study with an individual rabbi for a period of time, and other people enroll in group classes designed especially for converts.
The explosion occurred close enough to Stesyahu Alema to shake his apartment, where he sat with his wife and two of his five children.
A 96-year-old woman from Australia is immigrating to Israel.
Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris.
A Baltimore couple married 71 years is believed to be the oldest couple to make aliyah. Phillip and Dorothy Grossman, 95 and 93 respectively, made aliyah Tuesday on a Nefesh B’Nefesh group flight in cooperation with the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency, together with 43 new emigres from North America.
Intense debate erupted at a Jewish Agency meeting over a group of Russian Jews who want to emigrate to Israel.
Call it circumstantial Zionism. There’s been a recent uptick in North American aliyah — of basketball players.
The top two finishers in an international Jewish singing contest are immigrating to Israel.
It’s a typical Friday morning in Israel’s largest absorption center: A handful of local residents, all immigrants from Ethiopia, mill about examining wares for sale at a small, unofficial souk.
Some 21,300 new immigrants have moved to Israel since last Rosh Hashana, an increase of 19 percent over last year, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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