aliyah

noun

1. (Judaism, countable)The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
2. (Judaism, countable)A subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
3. (uncountable)The immigration of Jews to Israel.

   “In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.”

4. (countable)One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.
5. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of aliyah.

verb

1. (intransitive, rare)To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.

   “Anti-Semitism is a method of fooling Jews into aliyahing to Israel, the homeland, the sanctuary, in the pretence they will be safe. In the last 50 years how many Jews have died in Israel as a result of anti Jewish attacks....and how many have died in the diaspora?”

name

1. A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
2. A female given name from Hebrew.