Each year on Yom Yerushalayim, our community hosts a breakfast where our rabbi shares his memories of being in Israel during the Six-Day War. He and his friends were determined to get there—to help, to support, to stand with what he already called “his” country. Years later, that same deep love led him to make aliyah with his family.

I find myself returning to his story this year as, day after day, messages appear on social media from yeshiva and seminary students who are eager—sometimes desperate—to go home. They describe feeling stuck, anxious, uncertain, and longing for the familiarity and comfort of what they left behind.

One advertisement even offered transportation from Egypt to Warsaw. The irony is striking: leaving........

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