En medio de la festividad de jánuka, tuvo lugar un emotivo evento, la conversión oficial de 5 miembros de la comunidad de Visoky, una pareja con un niño y dos adultos. Luego de la conversión realizaron el casamiento judío de la pareja, el oficiante fue...
Rabbi Boaz Pash, Shavei Israel's emissary in Krakow, visited the city of Tarnow, where there was a special candle lighting event for Hanukkah. It was conducted at a site which, before the war, was the local synagogue and today remains the only place in Tarnow where the Torah is read. [nggallery id=108]El Rabino Boaz Pash, emisario de Shavei Israel en Cracovia, visitó la ciudad de Tarnow,...
Rabbi Boaz Pash, our emissary in Krakow, organized with the local community a number of activities for Chanukah. Tgese included festive meals, concerts and seminars held at the JCC. There was also a special visit of the Chief Rabbi of Poland, Rabbi Michael Schudrich. Rabbi Pash also gave a course in preparing latkes, a traditional dish of the...
Our emissary in Katowice, Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis, hosted a public Chanukah candle lighting in the city. It was attended by public and religious figures and is the first act of its kind held in Katowice. This represents a milestone for reconciliation and acceptance after the Holocaust. We thank Arkadiusz Lawrywlaniec for the beautiful photos. [nggallery id = 110]Nuestros emisario en Katowice, el Rabino Yehoshúa Ellis, organizó...
[caption id="attachment_7554" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Michael Freund with Bnei Menashe Kids in India"][/caption] The Westchester Jewish Life profiled Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, who grew up in the town of Harrison in Westchester County, New York. Here is a reprint of the article. ---------------------------------- Reaching out to descendants of...
[caption id="attachment_7544" align="alignright" width="191" caption="Yochanan Phaltual"][/caption] The New York Jewish Week published an article about Yochanan Phaltual, Shavei Israel's emissary to the Bnei Menashe community in Manipur. It is reprinted here. ---------------------------------- Yochanan Phaltual is the administrator of the 5,000-member Bnei Menashe in the northeastern Indian state...
Nuestro querido amigo Bernat Pomar, Chueta de Mallorca, quien estaba en sus últimos pasos para realizar su retorno final al judaísmo, falleció precipitadamente, dejándonos a todos una fuerte tristeza en el corazón. Michael Freund, fundador y director de Shavei Israel, y el Rabino Eliahu Birnbaum,...
For the past 10 years, more than 7,000 Bnei Menashe still living in India have been praying using a siddur (prayer book) that Shavei Israel produced especially for the community. This one-of-a-kind siddur has the Hebrew prayers spelled out phonetically in the Bnei Menashe languages...
El Rabino Elisha Salas, enviado de Shavei Israel en Belmonte-Portugal, ha desarrollado un nuevo proyecto de capacitación de jazanim los cuales se preparan para oficiar en la comunidad cuando el Rabino se encuentra ausente. Aquí les traemos fotos de los jóvenes participantes. [nggallery id=105] ...
