‘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 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!
Natalie has two very different guests today…Ruth from Liverpool UK and David from Oakland, California…both came to Israel as young singles. Ruth came to Israel because it was the Future for Jews; David came to …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Lara Itzhaki of Olim Advisors who shares her work helping new Olim, and also about her own Aliyah. Regarding her advice with aliyah, Lara suggests breaking it up into pieces so that it …Keep Reading!
Natalie interviews Dr. Chanah Tennenbaum who made Aliyah in 1997 with her husband and children, from New York to Nof Ayalon (near Mod’iin.) Dr. Tennenbaum has written her first book “Conceived in Hope” which features …Keep Reading!
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