Reply To: Challenges of making Aliyah and how to overcome them?

YWN reader brings up a very good point about the segregation: you definitely have to choose your “party affiliation” and there are not gray lines. But do be aware that no matter how “black” you go, you may still never be accepted. (Especially if you work, and especially if you are baalei teshuva: an American baal teshuva who works is just an am ha’aretz here, plain and simple, no matter how much you “shtell zu.”)