Aliza Bulow: Triumph in the Face of Tragedy
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
Trigger Warning: We discuss suicide in this episode.
Yaakov here, I encourage you to listen to this episode. It's one of the most powerful episodes I've ever recorded. Aliza is so strong.
Aliza Bulow is the founder and director of Core, an organization that connects Jewish women and strengthens Jewish homes and communities. In addition, she travels regularly to offer guidance, leadership training and strategic planning for Jewish Outreach organizations and Jewish communities throughout the continent.
Born to activist parents in the 1960’s, Aliza's community building began early as her upbringing was intensely impacted by her parents’ deep commitment to the civil rights movement. Her own activism took root during her early high school years in the fight for freedom for Soviet Jews. Her passion for Judaism and the Jewish people then took her to Israel where she studied for 2 years at Michlelet Bruria and Hebrew University.
With a growing desire to build and contribute, Aliza explored various avenues to serve the State of Israel and finally chose to enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1982-1984, during the first Lebanon war. She served in the Nachal Unit with a religious group that was dedicated to building communities in the Land of Israel.
Though her dream was to stay in Israel, her soul mate was in law school in America. She married Ephraim Bulow after he graduated, and then they traveled to Russia to visit refusniks before setting up their own home in Long Beach, NY. We discuss: being a giyorit, working in the army, raising a child with autism, life after her son's suicide, her marriage, starting Core and so much more. More about CORE here: https://coretorah.org/
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| 0:00.0 | I am going to end my life. |
| 0:03.2 | So when I do, what's your preferred method? |
| 0:06.0 | Wow. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm like, well, don't shoot yourself because I feel like, I don't have a prefer, but I can tell you my least |
| 0:11.9 | preferreds. Don't shoot yourself. What a difficult question. I don't have a prefer, but I can tell you my least preferred. |
| 0:12.6 | Right. |
| 0:13.6 | Don't shoot yourself. What a difficult question to answer from... |
| 0:15.6 | So he swallowed poison. |
| 0:18.6 | And I knew when I found him gasping that he swallowed it to take care of me. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the nation. |
| 0:29.0 | My name is Yakwlinger and could be you're listening to this on Tishabove. It could be you're |
| 0:34.6 | listening to this on not Tishabove. Chances are it's not Tishabove when you're |
| 0:38.5 | listening to this. But if it is, I think this is a, I don't if there's an appropriate episode for Tishabaf, but when it comes to |
| 0:50.0 | Hashem's home, the base of Mekosh, and the fact that we had two of them and we're yearning for the third one, |
| 0:57.0 | that loss that not having the base of McDosh in this world, it sometimes could be hard to relate to. |
| 1:05.0 | It's obviously at the time was very relevant and people were easily able to see what that loss was like and today we don't even know what we're missing |
| 1:16.9 | out on and it's sometimes hard to relate. |
| 1:19.4 | So I think my conversation with Eliza Bue-Loe is a nice way to understand what we have and |
| 1:32.0 | just the pain and suffering that comes with loss. |
| 1:38.4 | You're going to hear in this episode |
| 1:40.0 | how she lost her son to suicide and a lot of other things. |
| 1:45.8 | The conversation is not just about that and that's not who she is. |
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