Israeli bureaucracy puts roadblocks in path of Subbotnik Jews
TORONTO-RAANANA – One of the current priorities for Shavei Israel (literally, ‘Israel returns’), a non-profit organization which – according to its mission statement – “reaches out and assists ‘lost Jews’ seeking to return to the Jewish people,” is the Subbotnik Jews, who descend from peasants in southern Russia that converted to Judaism more than 200 years ago.
Read the article in The Jewish Tribune.