[caption id="attachment_9686" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="Maria Fernanada Almeida"][/caption] "I would love to hear the sound of a shofar" - Maria Fernanada Almeida, 50, from Senhora de Oura, Portugal, tells her story for Rosh Hashana. I will never forget that night – Christmas Eve. I was 5 years...
El pasado 29 de agosto, tuvo lugar el tribunal rabínico de 3 subotniks del pueblo de Visoky en el sur de Rusia. Los mismo, se unen a los 4 anteriores que ya hicieron su tribunal, y así cada vez más subotniks son reconocidos oficialmente como...
Shavei Israel reaches out to Lost Tribes and hidden Jewish communities around the world, including those in India, China, Poland, Peru, Spain, Portugal and Russia. But rarely do these communities get a chance to meet. That’s why an in-person encounter between a group of “Hidden...
[caption id="attachment_9173" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mordechai Baite and his family - ready to make aliyah"][/caption] As the resumption of the Bnei Menashe aliyah draws closer, we would like to share with you the stories of some of the new immigrants Shavei Israel will be bringing to Israel...
[caption id="attachment_9640" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Avraham Haokip and his family"][/caption] Shalom, I’m Avraham Haokip from Imphal, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. I’m married to Esther Lupheng, who is from the Beith Shalom community in the Sadar Hills District of Manipur, and I am blessed...
[caption id="attachment_9620" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Captain Basto"][/caption] Sixty-one years after his death in 1961, Captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto, the founder of the Jewish community in Porto and a passionate advocate for the Bnei Anousim of Portugal, has been posthumously reinstated into the Portuguese army. He...
[caption id="attachment_9616" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Meeting with the Polish Ambassador during Shavei Israel's 2012 seminar"][/caption] When Karolina Wantuch was 7 years old, she discovered a scroll with strange-looking letters up in her grandmother’s bedroom in their apartment in Krakow, Poland. Her mother explained to the curious child...
[caption id="attachment_9598" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Polish group at the Western Wall"][/caption] JERUSALEM (JTA) -- After Jerzy heard about frequent vandalism at an old Jewish cemetery in his home city of Gdansk, Poland, he decided to visit the graveyard. It had fallen into such disrepair that “people would...
