HISTORY OF AMERICAN ALIYAH

THE "PREHISTORIC" PERIOD There is a legend that many of the Native American peoples are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Isra...

THE ORGANIZING OF HALUKKAH It wasn’t until 1761, when Halukkah in, what is today, the United States, became organized after an appeal from...

THE EARLIEST EMISSARIES Rabbi Malkhi was followed by Rabbi Raphael Carigal of Hebron who visited twice in 1771 and 1773, and then, two years...

MORDECHAI MANUEL NOAH In the early decades of the 19th century, American, and American Jewish interest in active Jewish Restoration to its h...

THE JEWISH IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA FROM GERMANY During this time, thousands of Jews had immigrated to the US from German-speaking countries. M...

THE BEGINNING OF AN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL American Jewish pilgrimages to Palestine, made by both prominent and ordinary ...

HALUKKAH OUT WEST With the opening up of the west to American settlement, Jews too joined in the migration. Along with the new Jewish commun...