aliyah

Definitions

1. A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
2. Alternative letter-case form of aliyah.
   alt-of
3. A female given name from Hebrew.
4. The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
   Judaism, countable
5. A subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
   Judaism, countable
6. The immigration of Jews to Israel.
   uncountable
7. One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have⟳ a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.”

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