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Olimot Corner
Olimot Corner is a new column in the Iton where
movement members who have recently made Aliyah
share their experiences. Our first edition comes from
Naomi Tamura, who made Aliyah from HDNA to
Kvutzat Maayan in Haifa.
The coronavirus pandemic brought on changes to many
of our lives. For me, the first of many changes was
going from living in a kommuna in Brooklyn, New York
with four other members of HDNA’s Mazkirut Artzit to
moving back home with my parents in the suburbs of
Philadelphia. Aside from the physical change in setting,
I by and large stopped living a shitufi lifestyle, no longer
lived with some of my chevrei kvutza, and had to adjust