On the evening of June 4th the Krakow greater community were invited to visit the old synagogues of Krakow, Poland. People from all over came to hear stories and to look inside some of the oldest synagogues in Europe. [nggallery id=75] El pasado 4 de junio tuvo...
Rabbi Boaz Pash, Shavei Israel's emissary in Krakow, attended educational and experiential Shabbat experience. The event held prior to Shabbat was organized by the elderly Jews of Krakow, Poland. [nggallery id=73]El Rabino Boaz Pash, emisario de Shavei Israel en Cracovia, participó en una cena educativa y...
Fundamentally Freund: That dream of some 7,000 Bnei Menashe to come to Israel is now poised to become a reality.
Thousands of kilometers to the east, in the furthest reaches of northeastern India, a long-lost community continues to nourish its age-old dream of returning to its ancient homeland, the land of Israel.
The Bnei Menashe, or “sons of Manasseh,” are descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel, which were exiled by the Assyrian empire more than 27 centuries ago. The community, which numbers 7,232 people, resides primarily in the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur, along the border with Burma and Bangladesh.
Summer has started in Manipur, India where Bnei Menashe students attend Hebrew lessons at the Shavei Israel Center. [nggallery id=76] El verano ha comenzado en Manipur, India, y los niños de Bnei Menashé asisten a clases de hebreo en el centro de Shavei Israel. [nggallery id=76] ...
[caption id="attachment_6400" align="alignleft" width="300"] Modern Igbo outside Siyahh Yisrael Synagogue[/caption] The Igbo Jews of Nigeria, who call themselves the “Benei-Yisrael,” are part of the larger Igbo ethnic group. Most of the Igbo Jews live in an area which straddles the River Niger, near the Anambra states. The...
Luego de 30 años de letargo, la comunidad de Brno, en la República Checa, vuelve a la vida llena de dilemas halájicos. Queridos hermanos y hermanas, hoy es un importante día no sólo para nuestra comunidad sino para todos los judíos de Moravia. Estamos por inaugurar...
En un mes dramático, para Israel y quienes la apoyan, tuvo lugar un evento sumamente especial. Más allá del océano, en un estudio en Manhattan, un popular presentador de radio y televisión realizó un anuncio que ha marcado un hito en la batalla por la verdad. Hablándole...
Avraham Zecchillo was a proud descendant of Italian Bnei Anusim (to whom historians refer by the derogatory term “marranos”). He resided in the beautiful port city of Trani along the Adriatic coast where, he liked to say, his Jewish ancestors had lived “forever, for thousands of years.”
The history of Jewish settlement in Krygyzstan goes back as far as the 6th century CE when, according to the website BukharianJews.com, archeological evidence discovered by the Kyrgyz Academy of Science suggests that Jewish traders from Khazaria started visiting the Kyrgyz territory. In Kyrgyz tradition, the...
[caption id="attachment_6350" align="alignleft" width="289"] Bukharan Jews in 1890[/caption] The term “Bukharan Jews” refers to the Central Asian Jews of the political entity of Bukhara, those of Samarkand, and the Ferghana Valley. Today, the region is divided between the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan...
