The Israeli disease

By hdilman May 13, 2010

Monday, I got a call from the Jewish Agency. They said, “Good news, you’ve been approved to make Aliyah!”  And so that was it.  Perhaps it was a decision I’d already made, but there was my stamp of approval, my final confirmation. I remembered a converation I had had with someone just the other day.  Upon…

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American Aliyah- An Imagined Concept?

By bzalcman January 4, 2010

Last week I read an article in the Jerusalem Post. The article was an opinion piece, and the writer was of the opinion that any attempts to promote aliyah among US Jews were futile, useless and a waste of time and money. There will be no mass aliyah from the US and Canada like there…

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