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By Laura Ben David Harvey Brooks, a former congregant of Temple Emanu-El in Tucson, Arizona, is accustomed to large crowds cheering for him, but when he landed in Israel as a new Oleh on a Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah flight in August 2009, the welcoming crowd of singing and flag-waving guests touched him in a more [...]

And the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” Thus began Zionism,the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, and our thirst for sovereignty.  We were sidetracked by our sojourn in Egypt. Redemption began anew, in last week’s Parashah, [...]