Aliza Bulow

Aliza Bulow is theDirector of Ner LeElef’s North American Women’s Program, and the Senior Educator for The Jewish Experience in Denver, Colorado. She mentors women in their roles as Jewish outreach professionals, and provides consulting for Jewish organizations across the country. In addition, she teaches classes, develops programs and offers individual spiritual guidance that helps fuel the spark of Jewish pride and involvement in people from across the spectrum of Jewish association. She lectures in a multitude of venues throughout Colorado, across the country and around the world.

On her website, “A Bite of Torah” is offered to help us all on our journeys.
-Here she shares classes, articles and resources; things she has learned on her journey, and invites you to grow on your own, one bite at a time.

Aliza’s parents had a strong faith of their own, which was expressed more in their vision of the goodness and potential of humankind than in the power of G-d. Indelibly influenced by an experience with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., they were immersed in the civil rights movement, and worked tirelessly for equal opportunity for all races and the recognition of the dignity of every human being. As a little girl, Aliza marched in the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C., as a kindergartner, she picketed the schools in Rochester, NY, as a sixth grader she participated in a year long, nation-wide “Family Field Study of Integrated Neighborhoods and Desegregated Housing”, and as a ninth grader, she helped integrate a predominantly black high school in Portland, OR. She was raised with the knowledge of both what her ancestors achieved, and of what her parents were working toward — with the expectation that she too would assess the world around her, and work on improving it.

She began that assessment process at an early age. As a result, she rejected G-d and the attendant house-church based Protestantism of her family by the time she was eleven. She investigated many non-god-based spiritual systems before coming to the realization that G-d actually does exist, and at age 14, she began actively seeking a religious system that had a “G-d concept” with which she felt comfortable. When she discovered the book To Be A Jew by Rabbi Chaim Halevy Donin, it whetted an appetite for Jewish knowledge that has still not been sated.
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Shortly after her 16th birthday, Aliza converted to Judaism. Six months later, having completed only two years of high school, she went to Israel for a year of study at Michlelet Bruria, where she converted again under Orthodox auspices. One year stretched into two, two turned into Aliyah and study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and year three found her serving in a religious Nachal unit of the Israeli Defence Forces. While in the army, she met Ephraim Bulow, who had come to Israel to study in yeshiva for the summer. The two were married in New York after he completed his studies at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1985.

The Bulows settled in Long Beach, New York where they began their family and became actively involved in the local Jewish community. A full time mother and community volunteer for 13 years, Aliza was heavily involved in her children’s education and schools. During this time, Aliza began teaching a weekly class on “Jewish Philosophy and its Practical Applications” to women of mixed levels of Jewish education and observance that continued for over seven years. Additionally, she worked for several years at the national head quarters of Partners in Torah in Manhattan, as their Study Coordinator, mentoring outreach mentors. She actively continued her own Jewish education through private tutors, shiurim, seminars and outreach training programs in the U.S. and Israel, summers in Shor Yoshuv Bungalow colony, and hundreds of books and tapes.

Organization: Ner LeElef

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