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aliyah

[ UK /ˈælɪjɐ/ ]
[ US /əˈɫiə/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah
    he was called on for an aliyah
  2. (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel
    students making aliyah

How To Use aliyah In A Sentence

  • We broke through all the stereotypes, all the barriers, and we all experienced a real aliyah together.
  • Since immigration to Israel is seen by Zionist ideology as “going up” (hence the Hebrew term aliyah), the newcomers are considered olim (“those who ascend”). Ethnic Dance in the Yishuv and Israel: 1900-2000.
  • To remain within the Zionist consensus, Aliyah Hadashah had to give its full support to aliyah and settlement and reject the 1939 White Paper.
  • He himself had made aliyah from Russia, after years as a refusenik and three and a half years doing hard labor in the Gulag.
  • A number of the aliyah kibbutzim relocated to farmland expropriated from the Germans by the Allied occupying forces and prepared themselves for communal life and working the land in pre-State Palestine. She'erit ha-Peletah: Women in DP Camps in Germany.
  • To say "they got along just fine before" is not a valid argument. they were killing jews before 1929 because in the first 'aliyah' (1882-1903) resulted in huge waves of eastern european jews. people tend to become angry and violent when faced with foreign cultural invaders. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • When it came to external affairs, Aliyah Hadashah insisted that a Jewish state could survive only with British assistance in the face of Arab strength.
  • To remain within the Zionist consensus, Aliyah Hadashah had to give its full support to aliyah and settlement and reject the 1939 White Paper.
  • The email, titled "Enhanced financial assistance for Aliyah to Israel's North in 2010," promised up to $14,000 in cash and numerous other benefits ( "aliyah" is the term for when Foreign Policy
  • It is a great honor to be given an aliyah when the Torah is read in the synagogue, and it is important to fulfill this mitzvah (commandment) with dignity.
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