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/
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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.
Still squealy clean from Yom Kippur, we step out of our respective comfort zones into a flimsy hut that is subject to rain, wind and all manners of insecurity. And therein lies the rub! Our …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Rabbi Ari Posner, head of the N. American section of “Israela” an organization that has been around for 30 years facilitating “group aliyah.” This is when several people make aliyah together, from the …Keep Reading!
Natalie meets with Jeremy Ohayon, who made aliyah in 2013 from Montreal. Jeremy runs North Star Realty and caters to Olim, helping them navigate real estate in the Tel Aviv area. Jeremy shares his own …Keep Reading!
Natalie hosts Marc Rosenberg, of Nefesh b’Nefesh, to talk about the latest trends in North American Aliyah. Over 2,000 people are moving to Israel this summer, there are no more seats on the planes, and …Keep Reading!
Natalie welcomes Shayna Netanyah to the show in a live zoom interview. Shaya, 47, divorced no children, was a liberal Jewish woman in Northern California. Immediately after the October 7th attacks, her reform synagogue began …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks with Chava Stein who made aliyah with her family from Baltimore in August 2025. The moved directly to Ramat Beit Shemesh to be with other Olim from the U.S. Chava shares the hard …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Linn Johansson Leinonen, a recent Olah from Sweden who moved to Israel with her husband and two small children just two months ago. Linn, a Journalist for several Swedish publications, attests that immediately …Keep Reading!
Natalie speaks with Channah Rothberg aka “Chef Raw Raw” who made aliyah from Denver, Colorado in her late 20s, and found herself searching for “herself” in the north as a raw food chef. Channah takes …Keep Reading!
Natalie gives a snapshot of life on the Yishuv before jumping into an interview with recent Oleh Yakov Zaret (New Jersey to Beit Shemesh), who describes his new life, going to a different park every …Keep Reading!
Natalie begins the show speaking about the past six weeks of war and how life was in Susya; her guest Lizzy joins the show and shares her Aliyah story which began with her involvement with …Keep Reading!