When family and friends used to ask Baruch Israel what he wanted to be when he grew up, he didn’t answer like the other kids by specifying a profession. It wasn’t a doctor or a lawyer to which Baruch aspired. “When I grow up, I...
Shavei Israel’s main outreach to the Subbotnik Jewish community in Russia has been in the small town of Visoky. But there are many more Subbotnik Jews throughout southern Russia. Shavei Israel has now launched a new initiative to meet some of these lesser-known communities, starting...
Agnieszka Z was on her way to Israel for the first time. That's because only two years ago, when she was 19, her grandmother invited her to her home for a chat and said the words she heard would change her life forever: “My child,...
Shavei Israel has appointed Aryeh Khodorkovsky to be its new emissary to work with the Subbotnik Jewish community in Visoky, Russia. Khodorkovsky will initially travel to southern Russia for two and a half months starting in mid-June. He will be joined in Visoky by his...
What do the Chinese people as a whole know of the small Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng? Not much, says Aaron Wood, who was born in Beijing, grew up entirely oblivious of Jews and Judaism, and yet today lives as an observant Jew in the...
The Subbotnik Jewish community in Beit Shemesh held a pre-Shavuot party in anticipation of the holiday that celebrates Matan Torah - the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people from Mount Sinai. The event included cheesecake and a Shavuot quiz. We have pictures....
In 2012, Daniel Limor was invited to a royal audience with an African village king – a member of the Igbo tribe, the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The king was wearing a robe with a Star of David on it. So begins the...
Esther Surikova was worried. The barbeque and bonfire she’d planned for the Subbotnik Jewish community of Beit Shemesh last Wednesday night conflicted with another event for Jews who have immigrated to Israel from Russia – a party to mark “Victory Day” – the 70th anniversary...
As the banquet hall in San Salvador filled up, it was not clear who was more excited – the 250 Bnei Anousim who had come from all over El Salvador to celebrate Shabbat together, or their guest speakers for the weekend, Shavei Israel Chairman Michael...
Forth-five new immigrant families from Manipur India have moved to the ancient city of Safed in the Upper Galilee. They left the Kfar Hasidim absorption center, where they first landed after making aliyah, several months ago. A team led by Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
