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Couple from Benei Menashe Tribe of India renew their vows Jewish-style, fulfilling a long lost dream of returning to Jewish homeland Ya’akov Manlun, 97, and his wife Orah, 88, new immigrants from the Benei Menashe Tribe of India, wed Friday in a lavish ceremony joined by many guests in Kiryat Arba. Ya’akov and Orah have been married for almost 70 years, and have recently made aliyah to Israel. The couple concluded their conversion process days ago and asked to be remarried under the Law of Moses.
In two and a half weeks, a group of young Jews will spend Shabbat in Auschwitz. That opening line is nearly impossible to comprehend, and does not refer to a visit to a concentration camp. It is the first attempt since the onset of World War II to revive Jewish life, in what was once a mainly Jewish town with a name that will be linked forever to one of the great tragedies of Jewish history.
ORGANISED AND CONDUCTED BY SHAVEI ISRAEL ORGANIZATION FROM 23RD ADAR RISHON(28/02/08) TO 16TH ADAR SHENI(23/03/08) AT DHULIKHEL,NEPAL According to Jewish traditional teaching, when the month of Adar begins, the happiness of the Jews is much greater. The month of Adar is a symbol of joy for the Jews. And certainly this year the joy of Adar is explicitly display in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal.
Nearly 70 years after its demise, the Rabbinical Association of Poland was relaunched over the weekend at a ceremony in Lodz attended by Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger. Metzger signed a special scroll together with Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and other community rabbis serving in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Lodz declaring the formal reestablishment of the group, which prior to the Holocaust had united all of Poland's rabbis.
LOS JUDÍOS DE MI MUNDO ¿En qué lugar del Nuevo Mundo se construyó la primera sinagoga, después del descubrimiento de América? Cuando oímos hablar de Brasil pensamos en el fútbol, el carnaval, las playas y la música, pero olvidamos que fue también la puerta de acceso de judíos al Nuevo Mundo. La primera sinagoga en suelo americano se construyó en la ciudad de Recife, Brasil, en 1636.

Ha'aretz, February 24, 2008 Before learning about his Jewish roots, Pinchas Zlotosvsky from Poland was a skinhead with uncompromising contempt for Jews, the 32-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew told Haaretz last weekend during Shavei Israel's annual conference for hidden Jews in Lodz.

In villages across the expanses of Southern Russia live many Jews, the descendents of Subbotnik converts. Alexander Zaid, Alexander Penn, Raful and perhaps, even Trumpeldor are their descendents. Vysoki, Southern Russia Various sources testify about the transition of the original Subbotniks, limited to Sabbath observance, to a fully observant Judaism. “These converts are actually Russian people,” wrote Joseph Klausner, “who accepted the Jewish faith at first only by a quarter, then by a third followed by a half and in the end, in full. From the research of Dr. Zev Chanin and Velvel Charnin, we learn that across Russia there are between 10,000 to 12,000 Subbotniks spread out in over a dozen communities. Some of them live in their traditional centers, in the Veronezh area, the Volga area, eastern and central Siberia and in the Caucasus region. In their homes they observe the laws of Kashrut and are even stringent to fulfill the ‘Positive commandment’ of drinking four cups of vodka at the end of each meal (even after breakfast). The local vodka, Smogon in their language, is pure and clear. Its alcohol content reaches up to 80 percent. At one time, they prayed every day but the generations have declined and they only gather for prayer on Mondays and Thursdays. At one time they would listen to the reading of the Torah from the mouth of ‘Grandpa Pinchas’ who learned in a Lithuanian Yeshiva. However, since he went on Aliya to Israel, the community has been left “orphaned.” After a train journey of 12 hours from Moscow, we arrived in the city of Voronezh in Southern Russia. From there, after another journey of about three hours, we arrived at a small village called Vysoki. There I found one of the most astonishing phenomena of the Jewish world in the shape of the Subbotniks. There is no need for a full description of Vysoki village beyond saying that it truly reflects the shtetle from Shalom Aleichem's or Shai Agnon's stories. The Subbotniks’ story is also the story of the Jewish faith and its resilience throughout the generations, in all the conditions of place and time.  
At a special gathering this weekend being organized by Shavei Israel in Lodz, Poland, a ceremony will take place to re-launch the rabbinical group, which comprised all of the country's rabbis prior to the Holocaust For the first time since the 1930's, Poland's rabbis will unite together under one organizational roof when the Rabbinical Association of Poland is re-launched at a special ceremony being organized by Shavei Israel this Saturday night, February 23, 2008 (17 Adar I 5768) at the Jewish community center in Lodz, Poland.

A descendant of long extinct Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, weds new Oleh from United States in Jerusalem's Great Synagogue. 'I can't think of better example of ingathering exiles ' says Shavei Israel chair, who organized ceremony Ynetnews Israel Jewish Scene A groovy kind of love: A historic and very special ceremony took place last Thursday in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem: Shoshana Rebecca Li, of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, wed Ami Emmanuel, am immigrant from the United States.  
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