ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published January 27, 2022
In 1998, native St. Louisan Leah Elbaum Hakimian and her husband, Yusef, left St. Louis for Israel, where they made aliyah and settled in Jerusalem. They had been living in Clayton and raising four daughters. The family was a member of B’rith Sholom...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published March 2, 2021
Dr. Morris Hartstein has not only provided eye care for people in his former home (St. Louis) or his current home (Israel) but has also made 10 trips to Ethiopia, where he has treated residents who otherwise cannot afford care, trained Ethiopian ophthalmologists...
TEL AVIV — Emma Caplan, 23, was seven months into her job teaching English at an elementary school in Rishon Lezion in March when the coronavirus pandemic compelled her to cut short her yearlong Israel experience and fly home to Westport, Connecticut.Three...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published August 15, 2019
TEL AVIV — Judy and Josh Rosenbloom have the sorts of jobs — dentist and obstetrician-gynecologist — that require years of difficult study and long hours. But in their early and mid-30s, about the age when many doctors start to see the payoff of...
Aliyah should be part of the conversation Many readers no doubt shared Dorit Sasson’s assertion that the horrific shooting attack on the Chabad synagogue in Poway “made me feel more vulnerable than I have ever felt before” in her May 15 commentary,...
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 26, 2018
Some 45 attendees streamed into Jerusalem from across the country for the event July 5, making treks from Rehovot, in the central part of the country; Beit Shemesh, a suburb about 45 minutes outside Jerusalem, and the Samarian communities of Neve Tzuf...
JERUSALEM -- 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...
JERUSALEM -- Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. After landing Thursday at Ben Gurion Airport, the new immigrants and the delegation of leaders were taken to an absorption center...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Faina Dorfman, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan hoping that her only child would have a better life here, walks along a stretch of beach just south of a tattered seaside disco called the Dolphinarium. Ten years ago, a young...
