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Michael Freund interviewed on Kol Israel about seminar for Hidden Jews of Poland
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund spoke on Kol Israel's English-language radio news program about our seminar for young Polish Jews taking place this week in Israel. Click below to listen to the interview. Kol Israel in English on Poland seminar in Israel - August 22 2012...
Rabbi Gin teaches Bnei Menashe in Manipur during August 2012 seminar
Our seminar for the Bnei Menashe in India is continuing. Here is a new batch of pictures of Rabbi Yehuda Gin’s classes in Shavei Israel’s Beith Shalom community hall, located in the central Bnei Menashe community of Churachandpur, Manipur. [nggallery id=161] ...
Shavei Israel profile: Yehudit Jaksa – the first dental hygienist from Peru’s “Bnei Moshe”
Yehudit Jaksa has just finished her final exam to become a dental hygienist as she arrives for our interview. She is nevertheless poised and ready to chat and, as quickly becomes apparent, is at once both fiercely independent and quietly self-effacing. A profile of a...
Justice at Last for “Portugese Dreyfus”, Artur de Barros Basto
[caption id="attachment_9560" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Captain Basto"][/caption] It took 75 years, but finally, at the end of July 2012, an act of grave injustice and anti-Semitism has been corrected. More than 50 years after his death in 1961, the founder of the Jewish community in Porto, Artur Carlos de...
A special Rosh Chodesh celebration in Sajal, India with the Bnei Menashe
[caption id="attachment_9541" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Lighting candles for Rosh Chodesh"][/caption] On the first day of each month, the Bnei Menashe women in northeastern India celebrate “Rosh Chodesh” (the start of the Hebrew month) by coming together to sing, pray and eat. The programs rotate among the 37...
Rosh Chodesh in Sajal with the Bnei Menashe
The Bnei Menashe visited the small town of Sajal in Manipur to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul - the start of month of Elul on the Hebrew calendar (and the month before Tishrei with the High Holydays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur). We have pictures...
Hebrew classes for the Bnei Menashe in India
In advance of the upcoming aliyah to Israel of a large group of Bnei Menashe immigrants, Shavei Israel has dispatched additional staff to India to teach Hebrew and Judaism classes. Here are a few pictures from the Hebrew lessons. [nggallery id=159]...
Shavei Israel emissaries head to India to prepare for Bnei Menashe aliyah
[caption id="attachment_9525" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bnei Menashe students during a Hebrew class activity"][/caption] In advance of the upcoming aliyah to Israel of a large group of Bnei Menashe immigrants, Shavei Israel has dispatched additional staff to India. This is the second time in 2012 that we have...
Jewish Forward: The Jews of Kaifeng
Jewish liturgy and ritual frequently remind us that the Israelites were scattered to the “four corners of the earth,” as symbolized by the four fringes of the tallit, or prayer shawl. The extent of the geographic dispersion of the Jews over millennia has been vast,...