Tag: Israel

• Aliyah and Identity: ‘The heartache of two homelands’

    Perhaps only migrating birds know– Suspended between earth and sky– The heartache of two homelands. —Leah Goldberg, 1970    Leah Goldberg’s poem ‘Pine’ poignantly captures the ambivalent position of many Olim caught between two countries and two identities. For many, negotiation of a more complex, integrated identity that sits between two cultures is realisable.…

  Dr. Lisa Law

  October 12, 2009

  Acculturation, Aliyah, Articles, Culture, Identity, Research, Stress

  Aliyah, Anglo, Culture, Dr Lisa Law, Homelands, Identity, Immigration, Israel, Leah Goldberg, olim

• Aliyah: a rollercoaster

     Making Aliyah and the years that follow bring with it a rollercoaster of different emotions and experiences, some liberating and exhilarating and some more complex and stressful. So how can we better acclimatise to a new culture? What predicts a softer landing and an easier ‘settling in’? When are we more likely to adapt…

  Dr. Lisa Law

  August 13, 2009

  Acculturation, Aliyah, Articles, Culture, Getting help, Research, Stress

  Acculturation, Aliyah, coping, Culture, Dr Lisa Law, Getting help, Immigration, Israel, Psychlogical Therapy, Stress

• Welcome

     Welcome to my blog.  There are few reasons I wanted to create this blog… To bring theory and research in psychology and the related fields into a more reader-friendly and lay-accessible format. To take non-psychological material from the media and give it a psychological perspective. To help the English-speaking community in Israel gain access to…

  Dr. Lisa Law

  August 10, 2009

  Dr Lisa Law, English-speaking, Israel, Psychology, Research