The Bnei Anousim community in Belmonte, Portugal has a new Hebrew teacher. Penina Amid, who taught Hebrew in the Israeli school system for most of her career and is now retired, is volunteering her time in Belmonte during March as part of an annual project...
When the Bnei Menashe arrive in Israel, their Jewish journey is not completely over: they still must undergo a formal conversion. In charge of that is the Chief Rabbinate's Conversion Authority, which pays regular visits to the Kfar Hasidim absorption center to meet the Bnei...
Last month, we published the first part of a video documentary produced by Israel's Channel 10 on the Bnei Menashe. Channel 10 reporter Roy Sharon accompanied Shavei Israel on a journey to Manipur. Part 2 of the documentary is now available with English subtitles. Click...
Tablet Magazine recently published an extensive profile of Shavei Israel and its chairman and founder Michael Freund. Reporter Matthew Fishbine spent months working on the piece, which included a visit to India with Shavei Israel to report on the Bnei Menashe. Fishbine gives his impressions...
Israel National News profiled Shavei Israel and its founder Michael Freund in this article, which focuses on Shavei's work in India with the Bnei Menashe and in Europe and the Americas with Bnei Anousim....
Israel National News reports on how one rabbi is leading efforts across Italy to build new communities for long lost Jews. A profile of Shavei Israel's emissary to the Bnei Anousim of Sicily and southern Italy, Rabbi Pinhas Punturello....
Purim 2015 has come and gone but the pictures are still flowing in to the Shavei Israel office. Now it’s time to share them with you. So strap on your jet pack, we’re going for a ride - from China to India, Poland to Portugal,...
This week, Israel and the Jewish world are celebrating the holiday of Purim. In honor of the joy the Jews felt at their last minute deliverance, Purim today is perhaps the happiest day on the Jewish calendar. Everyone dresses up in costume to read from...
Karate Judaism is a Jewish movement that recognizes only the Bible as a source for legal authority. Tracing its origins to Baghdad in the 8th century CE, today, there only are an estimated 30,000–50,000 Karaites left, most living in Israel, with smaller communities in Turkey,...
The latest seminar for Bnei Menashe “Fellows” in India is now underway. Taking place in the same location as our 2013 seminar, 80 young men and women, representing all of the Bnei Menashe communities in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Assam and Myanmar (Burma), are participating. The...
