The Aliyah Monologues is a high-energy one-man standup comedy show about the modern day emotional reality of a ‘Child returning home.’ The Monologues focuses on the social and emotional aspects of Aliyah (moving to Israel) and depict an Oleh overcoming multiple obstacles as he begins a new life in a country chosen to be home.

A man who was a son, friend and rabbi in America is trying to work his way up the corporate ladder in Israel (and hoping to wait tables in the near future), while trying very hard to pick up his groceries and a wife. Ideals clash with the complexities of acclimation into Israeli society. There is a week of transition for all new Olim, the week in which the immigrant finds his ‘little Israeli within.’ This is what hapened during that week: The development of a whole comedy routine!

"I haven't laughed that much in seven years,"
- Ruth Kutniki- audience member at The Aliyah Monologues in Tel Aviv, 3/27/06.