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Spotlight on: Mariel Ackerman
Long Grove girl immigrates to Israel.
In the Jewish religion if someone immigrates to Israel, it’s called making Aliyah. Literally translated to mean ascent, it’s when some chooses to return to and live in their religious homeland. I just learned that Long Grove resident Mariel Ackerman, who graduated from Stevenson High School in 2005, Indiana University in 2009 and Rush University Medical Center is 2011, has made her Aliyah and now calls Israel her home. During grad school she went on a Birthright trip which is a free, first-time, peer group trip to Israel for Jewish young adults. That’s where she must’ve caught the bug because Mariel wanted to go back to Israel, for longer than 10 short days. When she graduated from Rush with a degree in Health Systems Management, she went …
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