One of America's favorite chain restaurants—the Cheesecake Factory—is now selling its eponymous cakes in Israel, with new flavors for Shavuot.

Helen Schary Motro's road to aliyah may have been slow, but looking back it seems preordained and gloriously inevitable.

My choice to make aliyah came from a strong sense of responsibility for the Jewish people, a pull to keep on writing the Jewish story toward justice.