The following articles are part of our Haaretz Hatovah series featuring real life stories and experiences of Yidden living in, settling, and building up Eretz Yisroel. Haaretz Hatovah also appears on Matzav.com and in Yated Ne’eman
With Pride and Prestige
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. One theme that I have kept to throughout my life is to keep moving, always growing. I grew up in Passaic, NJ and as I grew older I moved toward the chassidishe groups; on Shabbos I wear a shtreimel. I am comfortable with all kinds – modern Young Israel, [...]
Growing In Ruchniyus? There’s No Better Place.
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. For Growing In Ruchniyus, There's No Place Like Eretz Yisroel Rabbi Yosef Younger's story It was fifteen years ago when I was finishing 4th year beis medrash. I had spent a wonderful 5 years in Yeshivas Ohr Hameir of Peekskill, and it was time to move on. [...]
Rebecca Lefkowitz – Waiting for Moshiach here
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Rebecca Lefkowitz - Waiting for Moshiach here Reflecting upon my life, I am not certain why or when it started, but in my heart was always a desire to live in Eretz Yisroel. Perhaps its root was in an early trauma of mine – when I was [...]
Chaya Taub – Home at Last
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Chaya Taub - Home at Last Until 2006, at the great pleading of good friends of ours, who had made Aliyah a few years back, my husband Dovid had never been to Eretz Yisroel and I had only come once before as a teenager on a sponsored [...]
Bnei Aliyah – Setting An Example
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. I grew up in Kensington – that’s between Boro Park and Flatbush, for those unfamiliar with Brooklyn, it’s in the heart of the frum community. I came to Eretz Yisroel straight after high school although I was a bit young and that was off the beaten track. [...]
Above & Beyond “Normal”
Haaretz Hatovah Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. Above & Beyond “Normal”: Life in Eretz Yisroel. Our family made “aliyah” from the U.S. to Ramat Beit Shemesh about six years ago. I was born in Highland Park, NJ but I grew up in Baltimore, whereas my wife originates from Maryland. Moving to Eretz Hakodesh has [...]
The Modzitzer Rebbe
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel. The second Modzitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, (1886-1947) an outstanding Talmid Chochom, had tremendous love for Eretz Yisroel and prophesied that a Jewish State would come into being. Sadly he passed away on Shabbos, the 16th day of Kislev, Nov. 29, 1947, the day the UN voted [...]
Nature and Ruchniyus
I love nature and I'm also attracted to ruchniyus. It was only natural that I made Eretz Yisroel my home, being the place where ruchniyus is natural and where nature is ruchniyus. From the Teveria apartment building I live in, there are views of the beautiful Kinneret and its green surroundings. I enjoy looking at the scenery and connecting to [...]