Comments on: Aliya Is Still Happening

By: Neil Gillman

Neil Gillman — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:43:34 +0000

Kol Hakavod to you. It's tough to let go of the apron strings and harder still when you know that your nearest and dearest may be required to put there's life on the line. The State of Israel only exists because of sons (and daughters) like yours. Support from parents, whilst not vital, is certainly hugely important.

By: Randi Guigui

Randi Guigui — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:06:01 +0000

Through my tears of pride and shared fear with you and the other mothers, I admire your strength. My son goes next year. I would not stop him either.

By: Lori R. Cohen

Lori R. Cohen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:38:51 +0000

Yes, it is… didn't seem so hard on her when her DAUGHTER left, though.

By: Larry Rosen

Larry Rosen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:22:15 +0000

Very well said Bill!

By: Alisa Cohen Stein

Alisa Cohen Stein — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:05:39 +0000

Your sister told me, you can't teach your children to love Israel, and then begrudge them making aliya. But I can understand how hard it must be for your mom.

By: Bill Landau

Bill Landau — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:01:29 +0000

Good on ya! If I weren't 67, I'd be over there volunteering to fight. Did my time in Vietnam, would like to fight when I really believe in it.

And my daughter was in Netanya at Ulpan Akiva as a 14 year old when the Lebanon war started. I flew over to join her for a week as sheduled before we returned home. Even spent Shabbat on the Golan.

Eretz Yisrael is where we were meant to be, even if we can only do it as tourists. Not going to let our enemies stop us.

May your son serve well and honorably in the IDF, and may Hashem keep him, and all his fellow soldiers from harm.

By: Lori R. Cohen

Lori R. Cohen — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:44:03 +0000

My niece made aliya in July 2006, in the middle of the Lebanon war. My mother wanted her to postpone– the rest of us said, what's the point? She could wait for it to end, and it could start all over again two weeks after she gets there. She took her scheduled flight. And just over a month ago, her younger sister joined her. Kol ha'kavod to my sister for supporting her children's choices.

By: Lori R. Cohen

Lori R. Cohen — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:44:03 +0000

By: Vito Simone

Vito Simone — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:13:51 +0000

Two weeks ago my wife and returned to Baltimore after visiting our son who made Aliyah. He was completing his Masa Kumta and we were able to spend 10 days with him – he is a lone soldier.

I cannot fully express the pride and Blessings that his decision to do this have brought our family. Sure we were nervous about his decision, but once we agreed to be 100% supportive, Hashem shed his grace on us completely.

His is in Tzanchanim 202 and live at Kibbutz Saad. We stayed on the Kibbutz and spent wonderful days with him at Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod. It breaks our heart that those people have to endure the brunt of all this.

We pray for peace speedily in our day and look forward to our next visit to Yerushalayim.

By: Rivky Taub

Rivky Taub — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:24:05 +0000

By: Steve Weisberg

Steve Weisberg — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:51:22 +0000

Sabo-Sabo, just notcied that. Well said. (BTW, amongst those being called are not just grown-up children, but adult parents. My granddaughter talks proudly of her father. Her younger sister just asks where he is and the baby … well …)

By: David Rapport

David Rapport — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:06:23 +0000

Didn't your mother or uncle come out during one of the wars? I seem to recall a newspaper clipping that Uncle Ben showed me many years ago.

By: Itzy Sabo

Itzy Sabo — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:06:17 +0000

The people who said that to you demonstrate how 80% of Jews chose to remain in Egypt, rather than follow Moses into the desert.

By: Vanessa Gross Brooks

Vanessa Gross Brooks — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:57:45 +0000

Good for you! Back in 1991, during the first Gulf War, I was getting ready to make Aliya, and faced the same kind of questions. Granted, I wasn't going into the army, but still, people believed I wouldn't go. It only strengthened my resolve, and had the war not ended, I planned to מתגייס (join up?) instead of going to uni.

By: HaDassah Sabo Milner

HaDassah Sabo Milner — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:55:48 +0000

Itzy – you make a good point. But I *could* make it very difficult for him if I chose to. I don't choose to.