Putting his money where his mouth is

On Saturday night in synagogue, I struck up a conversation with an Israeli I had never met before. Sensing my American-accented Hebrew, he asked from where in the US I had made aliya (immigrated) and whether I did so immediately after I got married. He was shocked to hear that we did not make aliya until ten years after we got married. He said that he has lots of relatives in America, and he