Rivkah Lambert Adler

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Jan 18, 2015, 6:09 PM

The Courage of Olim

Back in the days when I worked with adult university students, I had a secretary who got frustrated when a student, calling for an appointment, spoke English with an accent. It annoyed her to have to work so hard...

Aug 19, 2014, 1:48 PM

Desperate to shake our families awake

I love a lot of people who live in the US. Deep down, I don't believe any of them will leave until it becomes truly untenable to be a Jew in America. And maybe not even then. In Chapter 2 of Pirke...

Feb 26, 2014, 4:11 PM

What Jewish women don’t even realize is missing

I just finished reading a memoir of a woman who came from a very distant place to join the Jewish people in Israel. She describes watching her newly Jewish sons and her born-Jewish grandsons participating in an array of...

Jan 7, 2014, 1:54 PM

Loving God and loathing prayer

I love God. I love Torah. I'm endlessly humbled and grateful to be an Orthodox Jew. In my fourth year after aliyah, I still pinch myself when it occurs to me afresh that I'm actually living in Israel. One of...

Aug 15, 2013, 11:46 AM

The Aliyah Seder Haggadah

When an aliyah dream that has been nurtured for more than 50 years finally comes true, it calls for a celebration unlike any other. Rabbi Aharon and Batsheva Fine made aliyah from Canada on August 13, fulfilling a...

May 29, 2013, 8:09 AM

Getting the Aliyah Call

There have been a flurry of blog posts written this past week or two about the aliyah question. First, Hannah Dreyfus wrote about her ambivalence toward making aliyah: ....the pronouncement of aliyah as an unequivocal ideal is quickly followed up...

Apr 1, 2013, 8:38 PM

Not exactly a seat of honor

Back doors, cheap chairs and blocked views are built into the sacred spaces reserved for Orthodox Jewish women

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About Me

Rivkah Lambert Adler made aliyah from Baltimore in 2010; She has been blogging about women and Judaism and about making aliyah since 2004; Professionally, she writes web content and manages social media for small business owners. Reach her at rivkah@kotevet.com.