aliyah

plural aliyahs · plural aliyot · plural aliyoth · plural aliyos · alternative aliya · alternative 'aliyah

1. JudaismcountableThe calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
2. JudaismcountableA subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
3. uncountableThe immigration of Jews to Israel.

   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.

   2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 53

4. countableOne of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.

present singular third person aliyahs · participle present aliyahing · participle past aliyahed · past aliyahed · alternative aliya · alternative 'aliyah

1. intransitiverareTo make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.

   Anti-Semitism is a method of fooling Jews into aliyahing to Israel, the homeland, the sanctuary, in the pretence they will be safe. In the last 50 years how many Jews have died in Israel as a result of anti Jewish attacks....and how many have died in the diaspora?

   2004 February 13, Paul Abelest, “Why Zionists love anti-Semitism”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet)

1. A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.

plural Aliyahs

1. Alternative letter-case form of aliyah.

1. A female given name from Hebrew.