Gan Matanel is now open! The first Jewish school in the Polish city of Lodz since 1968 is up and running with eight happy pre-schoolers and kindergarteners attending each morning. The school is co-sponsored by Shavei Israel and run by our emissary Miriam Szychowski who...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, during a session of Knesset on October 14, 2015. During his speech welcoming Mukherjee to Israel, Netanyahu's emphasized the strong ties between the two countries by citing the Bnei Menashe immigrants who have moved from...
Dr. Velvl Chernin, Shavei Israel’s coordinator for the Subbotnik Jewish community, visited Siberia this summer. In particular, the town of Zima, in southeastern Siberia in a region known as Irkutsk. Of Irkutsk’s 30,000 residents, it is believed that at least ten percent of them are...
Their numbers may be small, but their motivation is great. That was one of the conclusions from Shavei Israel’s most recent outreach mission to Ukraine to learn more about the Subbotnik Jewish community there. Eldad Fedorchuk traveled to the Ukrainian town of Krivoy Rog, in...
Shavei Israel has expanded its popular Na’aseh Venishma series of booklets on Jewish tradition and law to Chinese. Our first ever booklet for the Jewish community in Kaifeng, China, is now in print – and it arrived just in time for the High Holy Days....
In this article, which appeared originally in the Makor Rishon Weekend Magazine, reporter Zvika Klein tells the story of the descendants of the Sabbatean "Donmeh" sect that converted to Islam in the 17th century in the wake of their false messiah from Smyrna (Izmir), but...
Spain on Friday granted citizenship to 4,302 people whose Jewish ancestors fled after being told in 1492 to convert to Catholicism or go into exile ahead of the Spanish Inquisition that saw many Jews burned at the stake....
In a world that is increasingly hostile to all we hold dear, it would be comforting to know that we have a large cadre of amigos whose friendship we can count on in our hour of need. Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund discusses the possible...
Sandra Luz Patarroyo is a Colombian artist with Bnei Anousim roots. Several months ago, she contacted Shavei Israel with a proposal: to create an online calendar for the Bnei Anousim community showing all the Jewish holidays, the weekly Torah portion of the week and both...
Shavei Israel’s emissary to Brazil, Rabbi Yeshayahu Bin Nun, has been keeping busy since he started visiting Bnei Anousim communities in South America’s largest country earlier this summer. He's sent us pictures from two of the communities he’s visited recently in the beach resort town...
