In Palma de Mallorca this past weekend, dozens of people came together for s special seminar for Bnei Anousim sponsored by Shavei Israel. The Shabbaton featured as a special guest the Chief Rabbi of Madrid, Moshe Ben Dahan. The overall topic of the seminar, which included...
Here are a few photos from our most recent seminar in southern Italy. [nggallery id=211] ...
Here are some photos of the visit by government and local municipality officials to the Givat Haviva absorption center for the Bnei Menashe. [nggallery id=210] ...
[caption id="attachment_10551" align="alignleft" width="300"] Absorption Ministry Director-General Dima Apartsev speaks to the advanced Hebrew class in Givat Haviva[/caption] In December 2012, Shavei Israel organized a special “study day” for 80 government and local city employees who will be working with the Bnei Menashe immigrants who are...
Yonatan Haokip forwarded us these emotional photos of the Bnei Menashe group getting ready to make aliyah in India, December 2012. [nggallery id=208] ...
[caption id="attachment_10502" align="alignleft" width="210"] Yonatan Haokip[/caption] There is a custom among Bnei Menashe women to read from the Book of Psalms every day. The women divide up into groups and split the verses among themselves, so that every psalm is recited by at least one woman...
[caption id="attachment_10485" align="alignleft" width="281"] Mirna Singsit receives a certificate from Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund[/caption] At a special celebration today at Ben Gurion Airport, Mirna Singsit, 18, from Manipur, India was honored with being the 2,000th Bnei Menashe member to make aliyah to Israel Tel Aviv, January...
[caption id="attachment_10464" align="alignleft" width="251"] Rivka Fanai (center) with her family in Ma'alot, Israel[/caption] My name is Rivka Fanai. I am 23 and I live with my mother and my cousin in Ma'alot. In 2006, when I was 17 years-old, we made aliyah from India thanks to...
[caption id="attachment_10458" align="alignright" width="215"] The Bnei Moshe, including Naomi Orkisa, made aliyah from Cajamarca, Peru[/caption] By day, she works in a mushroom farm on a hillside outside Jerusalem. At night, she dreams of a new career: a profession in which she can stand tall rather than...
