‘Returning Home’ airs:
US Eastern time: Sundays 10am
Israel time: Sundays 5pm
Natalie Sopinsky, a Delaware native, was raised in an “all-American” Conservative Jewish family. Today she is a pistol-wearing, hitch-hiking settler living in the Hebron Hills. A lawyer, lifeguard, and Zumba instructor, the mother of five children, and wife of Philadelphia-public-school-teacher-turned-Israel-university-lecturer, Natalie represents the 150 communities in Judea and Samaria as Director of Development for Rescuers Without Borders Israel, the main US charity for emergency medical needs in the Jewish heartland. Natalie is also an executive team member of Partners in Aliyah, a grassroots movement helping match potential olim to more established olim who have successfully made the move to Israel.
Read Natalie’s Blog at https://www.hatzalah.org.il/blog/ and follow her on FB at https://www.facebook.com/RescuersWithoutBordersIsrael/
and at: https://www.hatzalah.org.il/
For aliyah support join Partners in Aliyah at https://partnersinaliyah.org/
Natalie is passionate about Aliyah and Israel, and hosts the show, ‘Returning Home’ which is chock-full of information on the immigration process to Israel. It airs every Sunday.
Natalie interviews Jesse Miller, an only child raised on the South Side of Chicago. Raised with a Christian father and a Jewish mother, Jesse dropped out of high school after falling in with a bad …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks from her car as she travels to Kiryat Arba…she describes the scenery and the atmosphere and the strength she feels driving in the Holy Land. Her interview is with Irene Rabinowitz, a woman …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks with three people in this episode; Rafi Shulman of Olim Advisors, Daniel Davenport-Freedman Oleh from Cleveland; and Ezra Shapiro Oleh from Omaha. Listen to their experiences. Rafi explains the ways of living affordably …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks with Josh Schubiner, 22, about to make aliyah from Boca Raton, Florida and go to ulpan and then the IDF as a lone soldier. Josh says there is an air of puposelessness in …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Jordan Ness, an oleh from New York who made aliyah in the beginning of 2022 to Kfar Vradim, a town of 6,000 people up north only 9 kilometers from the Lebanon border. Jordan …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Knesset Member Dr. Tsega Melaku who serves in the Knesset for the Likud party. Dr. Melaku made aliyah from Ethiopia in 1984 by herself at the age of 16. Her family was supposed …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Rabbi BenTzion Kravitz who made aliyah in December 2024 from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. Rabbi Kravitz is the founder of Jews for Judaism, which aims to teach Jews how to think critically and …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Avi Abelow, founder of The Pulse of Israel Network. Avi made aliyah to Efrat with his family in 1990, when Avi was a teenager. Today 95% of his family is here in Israel. …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks with Jason Lipstein, Oleh from Montreal to Haifa, about Aliyah. Jason recently submitted a strong article to the Times of Israel blog where he compared the rituals of the Holy Temple vs. the …Keep Reading!
Natalie hosts Patricia and Justin McCammon from Indiana, who will be making Aliyah to Netanyah in August 2026. This couple, now in their mid-40s, are leaving their grown children behind, and forging on a new …Keep Reading!
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