The Law Of Return

Background Desta Yosef, age 32, was born in a small village in the Gondar region of Ethiopia to a family […]

Background James Running Eagle (Hebrew name: Yaakov ben Avraham), age 37, presented one of the most culturally complex aliyah cases

Background Elise Bergman, age 92, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1931 to a secular Jewish family. In 1939, at

Background James and Rachel Williams presented an extraordinarily complex case when applying for aliyah. Both had been born to Christian

Background Robert and Michael Goldberg-Stein, both 38-year-old Jewish American men, built their lives as active members of their Reform congregation

Background David Cohen, age 34, was born into a Modern Orthodox Jewish family in Montreal. Though he distanced himself from

Background Omar Hassan, age 28, fled civil war in Yemen in 2018, eventually reaching a refugee processing center in Jordan.

Background Jacob and Sarah Goldstein, ages 56 and 54, built their lives as fourth-generation farmers in rural Nebraska, operating a

Background Emily Klein, age 31, was raised in a secular Christian household in Sydney, Australia, with no connection to Jewish

Background Dr. Nikolai Abramovich, age 41, built a distinguished career as a research scientist at Russia’s premier biological research institute.