The Subbotnik Jewish community in Beit Shemesh celebrated Tu B'Shvat this year with Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Zelig Avrasin and our coordinator for Eastern Europe and Russia, Esther Surikova. Here are a few pictures from the festivities. [nggallery id=282]...
We have more pictures from the Vysoky synagogue construction project for the Subbotnik Jewish community in Russia. It's really coming along! [nggallery id=281]...
A group of 40 Bnei Menashe arrived on Aliyah today from India, marking the second time in the last three weeks that a group from this Lost Tribe of Israel has moved here. Arutz 7 has the story....
It’s an increasingly common story among the Jews of Poland: a grandparent, lying on his or her deathbed, reveals to the grandchild a shocking secret – that the grandparent and, as a result, his or her family, is actually Jewish. The phenomenon has occurred so...
Shavei Israel's new emissary to Krakow, Rabbi Avi Baumol, has deep Polish roots. His great-grandfather, a scion of a rabbinic family which goes back tens of generations throughout Poland, was ordained with rabbinical semicha at the tender age of just 13. His grandfather received semicha...
Award-winning professional photographer Gali Tibbon, who has focused her career on documenting groups from far flung communities around the world, accompanied Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund and 38 Bnei Menashe on their journey from India to Israel on December 26, 2013. We present a selection...
It was after 3:00 a.m. on Thursday of last week, in the small airport outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, and the group of 38 travelers was exhausted. Young and old, these members of the Bnei Menashe community, which traces its descent to a lost tribe of...
Elyashiv Khupchawng recalls only too well the day he chose to publicly embrace his Bnei Menashe Jewish heritage. He was a teenager and “all of my friends simply walked away from me,” he says, matter-of-factly, but with the pain clearly still burning just slightly under...
The first group of Bnei Menashe from Mizoram have arrived! 38 Bnei Menashe men, women and children flew from Mizoram to New Delhi, India and then on to Israel on Thursday, December 26, 2013. Here is our exclusive photo gallery of pictures from each stop...
A total of 38 Indian citizens from the Bnei Menashe community made aliyah Thursday, the first cohort to arrive since the Knesset approved another wave of immigration for the group. The Jerusalem Post was at Ben-Gurion Airport and filed this report....
