Two young women, one from the Bnei Menashe "lost" tribe of Israel in India, and another from the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, visited New York City for the first time earlier this month with Shavei Israel. Tablet Magazine's Rachel Silberstein had the chance to...
Shavei Israel’s emissaries in Europe, South America and India have a busy schedule planned for Hanukah this week. Here are some of the highlights from the Bnei Menashe in India, Bnei Anousim in Spain, Portugal and Colombia, and the Hidden Jews of Poland....
Shavei Israel has appointed two new emissaries: one to Poland and another to serve in Colombia. Rabbi Avi Baumol will be serving the Jewish community in Krakow. Rabbi Marcelo Shimon Yehoshua will be our new emissary traveling between Bnei Anousim communities in Colombia. Here’s a...
Shavei Israel has published a new booklet in Spanish and Russian on the upcoming holiday of Hanukah. The 40-page booklet includes two main sections – one explaining the history and traditions of the festival, and the other outlining the laws of Hanukah. The booklet also...
Sitting amid a sea of Hebrew books last week at a rabbinical court near Jerusalem, Tony Pina of Palma de Majorca, Spain, defied history and logic and achieved the impossible. More than 500 years ago his Jewish ancestors had been forcibly converted to Catholicism. Last...
This Hanukah, joyous light will fill a setting infamously associated for nearly 200 years with torture and murder. For the first time in Italian history, Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim in southern Italy, Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, will light the candles of the hanukiah...
Shavei Israel held its first ever weekend Shabbaton in Katowice, Poland, at the end of October. Seventy people from throughout Poland (and a few special guests from Israel, including Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund) attended the 3-day seminar, including 40 from the Katowice community itself....
Shavei Israel held its first ever weekend Shabbaton in Katowice, Poland at the end of October. Seventy people from throughout Poland (and a few special guests from Israel, including Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund) attended the 3-day seminar, including 40 from the Katowice community itself....
Ariel and Moria Shishliannikov are the latest members of the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia to make aliyah. But they are also the first to do so since 2005, when Israel’s government inexplicably shut down the aliyah of the Subbotnik Jews. Now, with Shavei Israel’s...
Slowly and somewhat hesitantly, Karol began to recite the blessing before the reading of the Torah. With his parents and siblings looking on in evident pride, and the congregation enveloping him in warmth and joy, Karol underwent this sublime rite of passage into manhood, just...
