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Pandemic temporarily suspends family’s aliyah plans

if you were to pack up your life and move to a new country? The checklist quickly starts to form: job; accommodations; language; permission to settle; education. Drs. Helen Horowitz and Joe Clayman and their twin daughters Heidi and Pearl have been diligently ticking those boxes. For the past four years, the family has been planning their aliyah. The date was set for August, 2020. Then the coronavirus hit. While the global pandemic may have delayed their departure, the family plans are still very much in the works. “We’re very excited to follow our dream and to make the religious Zionism ideal a reality for us,” says Horowitz in a recent interview with the Intermountain Jewish News. This has been a dream years in the […]
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