OPERATION MENASHE UPDATE: On Monday, 102 members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community left the Kfar Hasidim absorption center where they have been living since they made aliyah from northeastern India earlier this year. They are now settling in to their new homes in Upper...
Shavei Israel is launching a new online class this week for Spanish and Portuguese speakers on the topic of Shabbat. It follows another course launched in the last several months in Italian on the subject "Heroic and Tragic Figures in Jewish History." ...
This week’s “Israel Uncensored” program on the Land of Israel radio network featured an interview with Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund speaking about his new book, A Drop in the Ocean: A Daily Dose of Eretz Yisrael. “I hope the it will inspire people to...
Shavei Israel is excited to announce that Founder and Chairman Michael Freund has teamed up with Rabbi Moshe Lichtman to write “A Drop in the Ocean: A Daily Dose of Eretz Yisrael.” The book is organized like a “Daf Yomi” – the worldwide daily Talmud...
He made aliyah in 2010 from India at the age of 16. This week, Eliezer Menashe was invited to Beit Hanasi - the home of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin - to receive the President's Medal of Excellence for his service in the IDF's Golani 13...
This week Israel and the Jewish world marked Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day - and Shavei Israel's communities celebrated in style. We have a great selection of photos - from Israel, India, El Salvador and Colombia....
Dina Samte, a blind member of the Bnei Menashe, received an unprecedented honor for the Indian Jewish community: she was chosen to light one of the Israel Independence Day torches at the official state ceremony, that took place this week in Jerusalem....
This week the world marked Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Poland, the day has added meaning with the annual March of the Living, where thousands march from the Auschwitz to Birkenau concentration camps. Shavei Israel's emissary to Krakow Avi Baumol describes this year's...
For our final post-Pesach stop, we visit the Bnei Menashe in India. Our correspondent Meital Singson send us some lovely photos of the community getting ready for the holiday at the Beith Shalom center in Churachandpur, Manipur....
We have pictures from two Polish Jewish communities preparing for the Passover holiday. Watch the burning of the remaining chametz In Lodz, a mock Seder with Jewish children at the Krakow JCC, and Polish Holocaust survivors practicing Ma Nishtanah in advance of the Seder....
