(Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah
"he was called on for an aliyah"
The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
Alternative letter-case form of aliyah
To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.
A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
A female given name from Hebrew.