Alisa Bodner

Alisa Bodner is a native of New Jersey and a Jerusalemite for the past seven years. She has been involved with numerous social initiatives to benefit underserved Israeli and Jewish populations and recently returned from volunteering with the Jewish community in Gondar, Ethiopia.

MEMBERS OF the Falash Mura community attend morning prayer services in the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2016.

2,000 Jewish Ethiopians approved to make aliyah, who will be left behind?

Will their child/sibling/parent be included in the “coveted list” of 2,000 immigrants or will yet another year go by of unbearable longing?

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

New olim from Ethiopia attend a dinner in Israel.

The time is now to right the wrongs done to Ethiopian Jewry

A privately funded 2017 study concluded that supplemental nutritional assistance is urgently needed for children aged zero to five who are chronically malnourished.

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog welcomes Ethiopian immigrants

The struggle over Ethiopian immigration to Israel: Beyond black and white

There are several questions but few answers as to why the nearly 8,000 members of the remaining Jewish community in Ethiopia are still awaiting approval to immigrate to Israel.

MARCH 7, 2019

The land of promises unkept

How can we Israeli citizens remain silent to what is an absolute injustice, that goes against the values that the Zionist state was founded on?

AUGUST 13, 2018

Why search for potential Jews when there are Jews knocking on your door?

An open letter to Minister Naftali Bennett

APRIL 10, 2018