Shavei Israel’s popular "Do You Have Jewish Roots?" book is now available in Italian. Already published in Spanish and Portuguese, the 109-page book is the first-ever practical guide to discovering one’s Jewish heritage. Its nine chapters cover all the major questions someone at the beginning...
More than 500 years after the expulsion of the Jews from Sicily, Palermo’s small Jewish community is set to celebrate the opening of its first synagogue since the Spanish Inquisition. The synagogue will be built atop the ruins of the former Great Synagogue of Palermo....
The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, visited the Jewish community in Lisbon. Shavei Israel's Portuguese emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas was among the dignitaries attending, along with the Israeli ambassador to Portugal and representatives of the three Jewish communities in Portugal....
Hanukah may be over, but we have a special bonus album of pictures from Shavei Israel communities around the world celebrating the Festival of Lights. New pictures transport us to Poland, Italy, Israel and India....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has become a Limmud groupie. Well, not quite. But he is participating in a double header of eclectic Jewish learning retreats. The first was last week in the U.K. The second will be at the end of this month in...
"After 2,700 years we have the opportunity to bring the Bnei Menashe back to our people and to our land. So why do so many of you sit on the sidelines and not get involved?" Those were the words of Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
When Avital Hnamte began to publicly identify as a Jew in India some twenty years ago, the teenage Bnei Menashe woman encountered a hostile environment. “The kids in my school didn’t hide their hate,” she recalls. “They called me names." But through the strength of...
For our final visit to the magical world of Hanukah, Shavei Israel visits two communities that began in Eastern Europe: the "Hidden Jews" of Poland and the Subbotnik Jews of Russia and Ukraine (and more recently Beit Shemesh). Have you lit your Hanukah candles yet?...
We continue our Hanukah tour of Shavei Israel communities celebrating the Festival of Lights with visits to the Bnei Anousim of Portugal, El Salvador, Colombia, Palermo and San Nicandro, Italy. Happy Hanukah from Shavei Israel!...
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week. Here’s a selection of photos from India. We take a trip to Manipur, Mizoram and Erode to see how local communities light the Menorah and spin the local version of the dreidel....
