The Chazon Ish community in Santiago, Chile held a marathon day of Torah study and preparation before Chanukah. The all-day program included activities and learning for all ages, including the laws of Chanukah with Gil Kalinka; study of the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Latapiat and...
Laura Ben David, Shavei's director of marketing and new media, visited a number of Scandinavian Jewish communities as part of her volunteer work for OTS Amiel Bakehila under the sponsorship of Israel's Ministry of the Diaspora. In her most recent travels to Scandinavia, she had...
This week’s Parsha is the story of Yakov building his family from scratch. He arrives in Babylon with nothing and leaves with four wives, twelve children, sheep, camels, and servants. It’s a long and difficult journey, Yakov works himself to exhaustion everyday.. Yakov breaks his...
As many people know, one of Shavei Israel's many projects is curating, writing and publishing books and materials in numerous languages, translations and transliterations for our various communities across the globe. Sometimes these publications find other uses which we're more than happy to provide for....
In our Parsha Rivka speaks to G-d and Yitzak speaks to kings, but they don’t speak to each other. From the moment they meet in the last Parsha until nearly the end of our Parsha not a word between them is recorded in the Torah....
One of the classic questions asked on our Parsha is why is Eliezer’s story written twice? Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, travels to Aram to find a wife for Yitzak. He prays for help and meets Rivka and she is the one. He then meets her parents...
Vayeira is a story of violence, trauma and abuse. We see four children in our Parsha and how each of them is the victim of trauma. The trauma is the product of an act of violence unprecedented in magnitude. In the beginning of our...
We went to Spain last week. I spent a semester in university studying in Spain. Though I had been on a journey of self discovery before that, my time in Spain was the catalyst that has allowed me to transform my life. I had forgotten...
Noach has always seemed one of the most irrelevant of all the Parshiot in the Torah. There are so many parts of it that are difficult to understand much less justify with our contemporary understanding of the world. Even the basic premise that G!d punishes...
Here were are again, Breishit. It’s a beginning, it may be the beginning, but of what? What’s the hardest part of being Jewish? It’s not eating Kosher, it’s not the month of Tishrei, it’s not even the antisemitism. The hardest part is that our days...
