After ten years in the Heichal Shlomo building adjacent to Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue, Shavei Israel has moved to new, more spacious offices to better support our growing number of activities in Israel and abroad. Shavei Israel's Machon Miriam Spanish and Portuguese-language Institute for Conversion and...
As Operation Protective Edge continues in Gaza, the Bnei Menashe rallied last week to show their support for the Israel Defense Forces. 25 Bnei Menashe joined another 200 residents of Migdal HaEmek to wave Israeli flags, sing songs and recite psalms. 35 Bnei Menashe families...
The first in a new series of profiles of Bnei Menashe who have made aliyah recently and are living in the Kfar Hasidim absorption center. Meet Aviel Hangshing - at 93, the oldest Bnei Menashe to immigrate with Shavei Israel....
Martha didn’t have a Hebrew name but desperately wanted one. Damian has no documentation of a Jewish past but suspects he has Jewish roots. Iga is in the process of converting to Judaism and works at a Jewish organization called "Cholent." Dymitr's grandmother revealed the...
Shavei Israel has opened its first Internet radio station. If you’re a Portuguese-speaker, then “tune in” to www.radioshabel.com, the home of Shavei Israel emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas’s latest project, a website that streams Jewish music and classes 24 hours a day (but not Shabbat) to...
Shavei Israel has opened its first Internet radio station. If you’re a Portuguese-speaker, then “tune in” to www.radioshabel.com, the home of Shavei Israel emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas’s latest project, a website that streams Jewish music and classes 24 hours a day (but not Shabbat) to...
If you ask a Bnei Menashe immigrant to Israel what the happiest day of his or her life was, you’ll often receive the response, “When I made aliyah.” But for Esther Colney, who came to Israel from India with her family at age 15, it...
Shavei Israel has been awarded a grant from the Natan Fund, a community of young philanthropists based in New York City, dedicated to promoting Jewish and Israeli social innovation. Shavei is one of 54 grants granted by Natan for 2014-2015....
When Rabbi Isaac Aboud set out for Mexico in 1984 as part of the now standard Israeli post-army trek, he never expected to meet his beshert – the woman who would become his bride. But only a few days into his stay in Mexico City,...
FP News visited the Bnei Menashe in India and produced a fabulous and inspirational documentary on the community. It includes interviews with community members who are on their way to Israel now that the Bnei Menashe aliyah has resumed, scenes from Bnei Menashe Purim celebrations,...
