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DREAMS COME TRUE
BAT YAMJOURNEYTO
THE ALIYAH
OF
CHAVA VODKA
Chava in front of their Sefardi shul.
Fby Shira Bracha Shugarman happy childhood with her two brothers America, Dr. Lowell, expecting to be
ew people I’ve met were as enthu- in their home on Western Run Drive. sent to a foreign country as per army
When she was twelve, her family moved regulations, asked his superiors to send
siastic as Chava Vodka about to Israel for two years. The move was him to Israel. The army willingly acqui-
prompted by Dr. Lowell’s promise to esced, because non-Jews were reluctant
sharing her aliyah experience with the American army. Rather than being to be sent to the Jewish State. Although
Baltimore readers. Her response – drafted immediately for the Vietnam the U.S. army wanted the infectious dis-
War, he would join of his own volition ease specialist to live in Herzelia with
that spreading the beauty of Eretz after he completed medical school. Dr. the rest of the American diplomats, Dr.
Lowell indeed joined the army as a Lowell was not moving to Israel to live
Yisrael is a tikun (rectification) for doctor and moved his family to Silver among non-Jews. He requested
chet hameraglim (the sin of the Spring to be near his assigned hospital Rechovot, instead, which has a frum
spies) – revealed her deep love of in Washington. Shortly afterwards, the community. He spent two years serving
family moved to Baltimore for school- as an American liaison to the Israeli
Eretz Yisrael and passion for yishuv ing for the children. army.
ha’Aretz. So, off I went to Bat Yam,
where Chava resides with her family, to After several years of serving in I wonder how Chava adjusted to the
hear about her life and explore the sea-
side town.
Chava, the daughter of Dr. Gershon
(George) and Leah (Lila) Lowell, had a
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BAT YAMJOURNEYTO
THE ALIYAH
OF
CHAVA VODKA
Chava in front of their Sefardi shul.
Fby Shira Bracha Shugarman happy childhood with her two brothers America, Dr. Lowell, expecting to be
ew people I’ve met were as enthu- in their home on Western Run Drive. sent to a foreign country as per army
When she was twelve, her family moved regulations, asked his superiors to send
siastic as Chava Vodka about to Israel for two years. The move was him to Israel. The army willingly acqui-
prompted by Dr. Lowell’s promise to esced, because non-Jews were reluctant
sharing her aliyah experience with the American army. Rather than being to be sent to the Jewish State. Although
Baltimore readers. Her response – drafted immediately for the Vietnam the U.S. army wanted the infectious dis-
War, he would join of his own volition ease specialist to live in Herzelia with
that spreading the beauty of Eretz after he completed medical school. Dr. the rest of the American diplomats, Dr.
Lowell indeed joined the army as a Lowell was not moving to Israel to live
Yisrael is a tikun (rectification) for doctor and moved his family to Silver among non-Jews. He requested
chet hameraglim (the sin of the Spring to be near his assigned hospital Rechovot, instead, which has a frum
spies) – revealed her deep love of in Washington. Shortly afterwards, the community. He spent two years serving
family moved to Baltimore for school- as an American liaison to the Israeli
Eretz Yisrael and passion for yishuv ing for the children. army.
ha’Aretz. So, off I went to Bat Yam,
where Chava resides with her family, to After several years of serving in I wonder how Chava adjusted to the
hear about her life and explore the sea-
side town.
Chava, the daughter of Dr. Gershon
(George) and Leah (Lila) Lowell, had a
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