Shavei Israel has launched a new book series in the Thadou-Kuki language for Bnei Menashe living in the Indian states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, as well as in neighboring Myanmar (Burma). Each 50-page book is filled with customs, Jewish Law and stories relating to specific...
More than 2,700 years after their ancestors had been exiled from the Land of Israel, a group of recent immigrants from the Bnei Menashe visited their forefather Joseph’s tomb, the first rendezvous of its kind. Shavei Israel helped one hundred Bnei Menashe pay an emotional...
The Jerusalem Post dedicated the cover story in this Friday's Magazine to the Bnei Menashe. Editor Laura Kelly traveled to India to report on the unfolding aliyah. She visited Churachandpur and then continued on the flights with the new immigrants to Israel....
"It was after midnight one night earlier this month that I found myself on the way to a remarkable family reunion of historic proportions," writes Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund. A first-hand report of the visit of 100 Bnei Menashe to Joseph's Tomb. ...
Chief Rabbi of Efrat Rabbi Shlomo Riskin led a group of 40 tourists to the small town of Belmonte, Portugal, where they joined together with Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas and local Bnei Anousim and Jewish residents for a weekend Shabbaton. We have pictures.El...
Becky Melamed knows how tough it is to be a new immigrant. She arrived in Israel from New York with her family in 2009 when she was just six years old. So, as she was turning 12 and planning her bat mitzvah, she knew she...
Arutz 7 TV's Yoni Kempinski was at Ben-Gurion Airport last week to greet the third flight of Bnei Menashe to make aliyah. He interviews Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom and Miriam, a young Bnei Menashe new immigrant. The three minute...
Yet another group of “lost Jews,” the Bnei Menashe, arrived in Israel Thursday morning, marking the third time this month Israel has conducted an airlift of the group's members. Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom met the group at Ben-Gurion Airport. Here's the story....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed on Israel Radio's English language news program about the aliyah from India last week of 250 Bnei Menashe. The interview reviews the history of the Bnei Menashe, their Zionist commitment to Israel and Shavei Israel's success in bringing...
It is happening! The Bnei Menashe aliyah has begun. Let's meet another Bnei Menashe family on its way to Israel this summer. Makhir Thouthang is from the village of Saikul in Manipur, India. His mother Milka taught him Bible stories when he was young while...
