
by Michael Hoffman Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) has made the move from North America to Israel easier than ever. For those ready to make Aliyah, NBN provides all the information and logistical support needed. Many of those who made Aliyah before NBN was founded are jealous that they didn’t have those advantages. But the landscape that has traditionally propelled Jews to make Aliyah in the first place has changed dramatically since the first Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight in 2002. The Jewish Agency for Israel has shifted its focus from Aliyah to identity and peoplehood, and mainstream movements in the American Jewish world rarely if ever talk of or encourage Aliyah. Even influential Israeli thinkers such as Gidi Grinstein now argue that the Zionist insistence on negating the Diaspora was a … [Read more...]


