Every Friday afternoon, an extraordinary modern day Exodus takes place in San Salvador. Between 50-60 Bnei Anousim make their way by bus and by car to the Beit Israel synagogue in El Salvador’s capital. They carry with them a potluck assortment of appetizers, main dishes...
Tu B’Shvat – the Jewish holiday familiar to every Israeli from kindergarten on up as the “New Year for the Trees” – is not so well known among the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia. So, last week, Shavei Israel sponsored a festive Tu B’Shvat party...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund will be flying to India at the beginning of February – this time not to visit the Bnei Menashe in their villages, but to speak about the community at a conference on “The Judeo-Christian Heritage of the West Coast of...
Forty more Bnei Menashe made aliyah from the Indian state of Mizoram on Thursday, January 23, 2014. This followed 40 the week before, with a final group of 40 from Mizoram arriving next Thursday, January 30, 2014, for a total of 120 new immigrants in...
The story of a remarkable meeting between the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis to Poland in the old synagogue near the Auschwitz death camp where Rabbi Ellis read Torah for the world's top diplomat....
Our latest video: a short documentary telling the story of Subbotnik Jews Ariel and Moriah Shishlenikov and their aliyah process. Learn more about Shavei Israel's help in enabling the aliyah of this proud couple and many other Subbotnik Jews, most of whom hail from Visoky,...
Nearly 5,000 new siddurim (prayer books) were sent from Israel to India recently and the Bnei Menashe celebrated with an outpouring of creativity, including folk dances presented by community members from various Bnei Menashe villages of Monglenphai, Sijang, Zohar, Patlen and Beith El Imphal (the residents...
The November 15, 2013 weekend edition of The Jerusalem Post Magazine ran a major feature on Shavei Israel's recent seminar in Katowice, Poland and the revival (or continuation) of the Jewish community there. Here's how the article appeared in the print edition....
Ruth Haokip came from India, a member of Bnei Menashe, “the children of Menashe.” Jin Jin grew up more than 1,700 miles away, in Kaifeng, China. And on the Upper West Side, they spoke about what they had in common: Both were members of “lost”...
