Mephisto 2634

[cruciverbals]

5 down: is it ALIYOT or ALIYAt: What chalutzim made little alice play up. Ali??t

can find mention on the web of aliyat but not aliyot.

i have the o from erewhon? make believe place you and I are spinning, doll.

thanks all

[ulysses100]

Aliyot is in Webster's ; defined as the action of going up or being called to the reading desk of the synagogue to read from the scriptures. there is no alternative aliyat given.

[JMR27]

It would have to be aliyot - Ali(ce) + yot (toy/play up)
Agree Erewhon - erew = we're reversed (you and I spinning) + hon(ey)/doll

[endanger33]

it also means going from the Diaspora to live in Israel...literally ascending to live there. The chalutzim were the "pioneers" of the late 19th & early 20th Centuries who left E. Europe to flee pogroms/anti-semitism and make a new life in then Palestine to "make the desert bloom"