It’s now official: the Israeli government has passed the long-awaited resolution that restarts the aliyah of the remaining 7,000 Bnei Menashe in India. The first group of 275 Bnei Menashe (about 50 families) will arrive shortly after Hanukah. This is the first flight Shavei Israel...
Katowice, Poland, recently held a festival of Jewish and Israeli culture. Shavei Israel's emissary to the Katowice area, Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis, led a havdalah ceremony to mark the closing of Shabbat. It was held at the site of the New Synagogue in Katowice, which was torched by...
Baruj García se encontraba en su cuarto año de estudio para convertirse en cura en Barcelona, España, cuando se dio cuenta que tenía otro llamado más fuerte – reclamar sus raíces judías como Ben Anús ...
[caption id="attachment_9883" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rabbi Ellis conducting the havdalah service in Katowice"][/caption] A humus making workshop in southern Poland, in a town with scarcely more than 100 Jews? That was just one of the culinary and cultural events at the “Sababa” festival held in Katowice last...
Los alumnos de nuestro emisario en Visoky, el Rabino Shlomo Zelig Avrasin, festejaron con todo la festividad de sucot. Aquí les traemos fotos de los mismos en la sucá y con las 4 especies. Que las disfruten! [nggallery id=181] תלמידי השליח שלנו בכפר ויסוקי אשר ברוסיה, הרב...
For 25 years, the Bnei Menashe in the Beith Shalom community of Churachandpur, India, prayed in a dilapidated synagogue built out of bamboo and wood, supported by walls made of mud and covered with a fraying thatched roof. Now, the community has a brand new...
The Beith Shalom community of Churachandpur, India, has a brand new synagogue. Here are pictures from the dedication ceremony. [nggallery id=178]...
[caption id="attachment_9855" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="New Beith Shalom synagogue in Manipur"][/caption] For 25 years, the Bnei Menashe in the Beith Shalom community of Churachandpur, India, prayed in a dilapidated synagogue built out of bamboo and wood, supported by walls made of mud and covered with a fraying...
A member of the Peruvian B'nai Moshe community (also known as the "Inca Jews"), who arrived in Israel a year and a half ago to care for her ailing father, is sitting in jail awaiting deportation for having overstayed her tourist visa....
[caption id="attachment_9822" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Yehoshua Touthang and son Avi Doron selling the four species at their home for the community of Bnei Menashe in Churachandpur"][/caption] For many years, Shavei Israel has been shipping the arba minim – or the “four species” used during the holiday of...
