[caption id="attachment_32927" align="alignleft" width="300"] Olga (left) studying with R. Baumol (center) in Krakow[/caption] Olga grew up in Poland as a Christian Pole with no connection to Judaism until she discovered her Jewish roots at 12 years old. From that point Olga went on a journey towards...
Rio de Janeiro’s Jewish Museum is best known for its collection of 69 menorahs and Jewish ritual objects designed by Russian-born artist Rio resident Joseph Feldman. The small museum – the only one in Brazil until a new museum in Sao Paolo opens later this...
Abigail (Marina) Erlich was scheduled to stand before the rabbinical conversion court to formally return to Judaism when, at the last moment, she revealed to Rabbi Elisha Salas, Shavei Israel’s emissary to Portugal and her guide through several years of study, that she believed she...
It's a tradition for young people all over the world: the end of the year is a time for celebration. As a famous rock singer once crooned, "No more teachers, no more books"...
How do you dress for a bat mitzvah in Nigeria? Not much different than in Israel - with a fluffy pink dress and a crown! Gadi Bentley, who was Shavei Israel's first emissary to Africa's Igbo Jewish community (we wrote about him here and his successors, Noga Kohl and Michal...
In 1945, when the Nazis were defeated and World War II came to a tragic close, Marcel Zielinski set out on foot from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and walked back to his hometown of Krakow. [caption id="attachment_32655" align="alignleft" width="300"] Marcel Zielinski at Auschwitz[/caption] Seventy-one years later, Zielinski...
Beit Miriam is Shavei Israel's community center for Bnei Menashe youth in Kiryat Arba, south of Jerusalem. This unique social and cultural club offers courses in computers, English, Hebrew and Judaism. It is a home away from home for the next generation of Bnei Menashe...
Elad Israel and Yoel Kolshing have been soccer fans for almost all of their lives – which in their case is just nine short years. That’s the way it is with the Bnei Menashe, who start kicking the ball around almost as soon as they...
One hundred and twenty one men, women and children joined the Jewish faith last month in a far off country better known as the title to a Disney film than a hotbed of religious resurgence....
Congratulations to Sonia Manlun Lhungdim who has become the latest Bnei Menashe immigrant to Israel to graduate from social work school. Sonia joins her friends, Itzkhak and Esther Colney, who like her also graduated from the Safed Academic College over the last several years. “We are...
