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Search for Similarity in Aliyah Tales
\”Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel\” by Liel Leibovitz.
To the Promised Land
Indalo — Ethiopians are known by their first names — is one of the lucky ones among thousands of Ethiopians seeking to immigrate to Israel from one of Africa\’s poorest countries.
Falash Mura Plight Stirs Support in U.S.
Perhaps no single party outside the Israeli government is as vital to Ethiopian aliyah as the American Jews committed to help paying for it. So this month, when the United Jewish Communities (UJC) brought a group of 100 people from America\’s wealthiest Jewish communities, including Los Angeles, to the straw-and-mud huts of one of the poorest countries on earth, it was a signal to the Israeli government that American Jewry is serious about its own role in bringing Ethiopians to Israel.
Call Him Henry Roth
Until now, there has been no full-scale biography of Henry Roth, whose 1934 novel, \”Call It Sleep,\” is considered a masterpiece of American literature.
Remember Sept. 11 the Jewish Way
I\’ve always had a difficult time assimilating tragedy, and although it hit much closer to home for me, Sept. 11 was not much different.
Even though it touched people all around me, and I was definitely affected, it still did not seem as intense or painful as it should have been.
I sought the solace of my friends, and gave it as much as possible, just like everyone else in New York City. And although I knew people who died in the Trade Center, and others who lost close relatives and friends, I still only understood the calamity in my mind. It didn\’t really hit my heart the way it hit others\’.
Then I found a uniquely Jewish way to relate, and was able to come to personal terms with this tragedy.
The Circuit
Fun Way to Fund, Kirk Comes West, In The Beginning, Saluting Six, Student Art Aliyah, A Woman\’s World and Tackling The Taboo.
Time to Go Home
I felt a great, humbling appreciation that I was now doing what so many of my ancestors had wished to do for thousands of years.
Missing Family
I\’m so caught up in my dreams of being the first in my family to replant our roots back in Israel that I almost forgot that I\’m making this journey alone, without any family at all.
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