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It's that time of year again: when the Jewish world puts on a happy face - literally. When the masks come off, it's nothing but smiles as Jewish communities everywhere celebrate the holiday of Purim. And we've got the photos to prove it. Here are...

The latest aliyah wave of Bnei Menashe new immigrants is now settling in to the temporary homes at Shavei Israel's Kfar Hasidim absorption center, where the Bnei Menashe will stay for the next three months while they learn Hebrew, Judaism, and the basics of life...

Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund appeared this week on the Swedish Christian television station Himlen TV7. The extensive, nearly 30-minute long interview is in English and has Swedish subtitles. In it, Michael discusses the latest aliyah of the Bnei Menashe, Shavei Israel activities and his...

The Jewish holiday of Purim is coming next week and Shavei Israel is once again offering its popular Spanish-language guide to Purim for the Bnei Anousim community. The e-version is available to download for free from our website....

“I lived in Florida and I ate a lot of Mexican food with jalapeno peppers. I thought I knew hot, but I never tasted anything as spicy as the ‘king pepper,’” Yitzhak Eicoff recalls. But since Yitzhak married Bnei Menashe Hadassa Tungdim from Manipur India,...

The Jewish holiday of Tu B’shvat is known as “Rosh Hashana for the Trees.” And what says “new year” more than a resolution to start something new – which in the case of trees would be planting. Portuguese Bnei Anousim took to the fields in...

Portugal recently inaugurated the “Rede de Juderias,” a new tourist trail that passes through a number of historic Jewish sites in the country. Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas has been advising the Portuguese government. He was in Israel recently to promote the Jewish heritage...

The 102 Bnei Menashe immigrants who arrived in Israel from India last week are settling into their new home at the Kfar Hasidim absorption center. We have some pictures of the group here. The newcomers from Mizoram will live in Kfar Hasidim for about 3...

The second of two aliyah flights last week landed on Thursday. Seventy-two Bnei Menashe from Mizoram arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport where they were met by scores of Israelis overjoyed by the latest immigration from India. We caught the excitement on video and we have it...

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