Suriname is located on the northeastern coast of South America, bordered by the two Guyana’s and Brazil. Dutch is the official language of the country. At just under (64,000 square miles) Suriname is the smallest sovereign state in South America. It has an estimated population of...
The Spanish association Rambam, which brings together Jewish physicians across Spain organized a conference on the issue of euthanasia and invited Rabbi Avraham Ben Nissán to talk about the Jewish law perspective on it. [nggallery id=80] La asociación española Rambam, la cual agrupa a médicos judíos de...
Bnei Menashe are descendants from tribe of Menashe, living in India, who were exiled from kingdom of Israel more than 27 centuries ago. Israel Beiteinu will prevent any funding from being approved by the Knesset Finance Committee if Finance Ministry bureaucrats continue to block funding...
Chuetas recognized by rabbi after centuries of persecution dating back to before the Spanish Inquisition Almost six centuries after most of them converted to Christianity, a rabbinical court has declared that descendants of a "lost tribe" from the Spanish island of Mallorca can once more be...
[caption id="attachment_6739" align="alignright" width="150"] Rabi Nissan Ben Abraham[/caption] PALMA DE MAJORCA (EJP)---A leading Israeli rabbinical authority has officially recognized as Jewish the small Chueta community on Spain's island of Majorca, six centuries after their ancestors were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. The Chuetas are the descendants...
On July 12, Michael Freund, Chairman of Shavei Israel and Rabbi Eliyahu Birnbaum, Head Rabbi of the organization, held a press conference in Palma de Mallorca to announce the historic opinion of Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, head of the Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak, decreeing that...
Els xuetes són jueus conversos al cristianisme que mantenien vives les seves creences en privat. Ara, un prominent rabí reconeix aquest col·lecitu social -tradicionalment estigmatizat i segregat- com autèntics jueus que a més, formen part del poble d’Israel. IB - Ens Públic de Radiotelevisió de les...
Descendants of secret Jews are "from our brethren the children of Israel," Rabbi Nissim Karlewitz rules. A leading rabbi and halachic authority in Israel has recognized the Chuetas of Palma de Majorca as Jewish, the Shavei Israel organization announced on Monday. The Chuetas...
PARIS — Centuries after the Spanish Inquisition led to the forced conversion of Jews to Catholicism, an ultra-orthodox rabbinical court in Israel has issued a religious ruling that recognizes descendants from the insular island of Majorca as Jews. ...
The government has decided to draft a resolution to bring India's Bnei Menashe populace home to Israel, after years of lobbying by the Shavei Israel organization. The 2,700-year-old group, which claims its ancestry from the Lost Tribe of Menashe, has maintained many of the laws and...
