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Bnei Menashe meet Hidden Jews from Poland in IsraelBnei Menashé se encuentran con los Judíos de Polonia en Israel

Shavei Israel reaches out to Lost Tribes and hidden Jewish communities around the world, including those in India, China, Poland, Peru, Spain, Portugal...

A multicultural meet-up in Jerusalem: Polish Jews and Bnei Menashe together

[caption id="attachment_9648" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Bnei Menashe meet young Polish Jews"][/caption] Shavei Israel reaches out to Lost Tribes and hidden...

Meet the Bnei Menashe who are making aliyah this year!

[caption id="attachment_9173" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mordechai Baite and his family - ready to make aliyah"][/caption] As the resumption of the Bnei Menashe aliyah draws closer,...

Making aliyah: Meet Avraham Haokip

[caption id="attachment_9640" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Avraham Haokip and his family"][/caption] Shalom, I’m Avraham Haokip from Imphal, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. I’m...

Justice at last: the “Portuguese Dreyfus” is posthumously reinstated

[caption id="attachment_9620" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Captain Basto"][/caption] Sixty-one years after his death in 1961, Captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto, the founder of the Jewish...

Hidden Jews of Poland reconnect with their roots

[caption id="attachment_9616" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Meeting with the Polish Ambassador during Shavei Israel's 2012 seminar"][/caption] When Karolina Wantuch was 7 years old, she discovered a...