Word: aliyah
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...Bryna at a Bnei Akiva (a Zionist youth group) meeting in New York City, married her and made aliyah (literally, the ascent) to Israel. Bryna too was reared to Zionism, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy...
...pamphlet form, The Jewish State acted as the blueprint for Jewish renewal and cultivation in Israel while Jews were still being persecuted throughout Europe. The Jewish State promised independence and sovereignty as well as an end to dependence upon inhospitable hosts for all Jews that were willing to make Aliyah (immigrate) to Israel and work hard at revitalizing the land that had become stagnant since their expulsion from it thousands of years before. Netanyahu's election promises revitalization and reunification of a different sought for the grandchildren of Herzl's generation...
...realize for secular Jews in the liberal United States it is impossible to keep Jewish continuity," Yossi Beilin said. "What we will have to see is either religious Jews in the United States or a very small concentration of secular Jews who will make aliyah [immigrate to Israel] if they wish to contribute as secular Jews...
Nonetheless, because they've come to stay, "the Russians," as they're often called, may in the long run be part of the salvation of their new homeland. They joined the aliyah (literally, "the ascent") in order to move up in the world. They didn't leave an expansionist, totalitarian empire that repressed its minorities only to become citizens of a garrison state at war with its neighbors as well as with 1.7 million embittered, disfranchised and mutinous Palestinians...
...immigration to the state of Israel since the years immediately after its founding in 1948. Last year 12,923 arrived from the Soviet Union; this year the government expects between 70,000 and 100,000, and some Israeli officials estimate that up to 700,000 Soviet Jews might make aliyah, the "ascent" to Israel, over the next three to five years. The prospect fills Israeli leaders with joy: immigration has slumped, and in some recent years it has been equaled and possibly surpassed by emigration. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir spoke for many of his fellow right-wing politicians when...