‘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 welcomes guest Tamar Ben Giges who made aliyah with her husband and six children from Australia to Jerusalem two years ago. Tamar was a high school teacher and continues here in Israel to be …Keep Reading!
Natalie starts the program describing her recent trip to Warsaw where she visited the Warsaw Ghetto, and couldn’t hold back with exclaiming “there is no reason to live outside Israel today!” Her guest, David Levine, …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews two people who both moved to Ashkelon, and neither is taking Ulpan. Miriam 26, nurse and mother made Aliyah in May 2025 from Far Rockaway with her husband and baby, and Dr. Howard …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews three recent olim, all retirees. Chaim Stricker, a former school teacher, made aliyah from New Jersey to Arad with his wife and five dogs in 2024. The couple bought a home and settled …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews OlimAdvisors Co-founder Rafi Shulman who brings us: 7 Reasons to make aliyah 1. Escape anti-semitism 2. Not as hard as it once was 3. Sense of belonging here 4. Opportunity to start a …Keep Reading!
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!
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