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Following the exposure in NRG Maariv, about 20 Russian Jewish families suffering from Anti-Semitism where authorized to come to Israel Following the exposure in NRG Maariv, the Prime Minister’s office approved the immigration to Israel of about 20 Subbotnik families living in Russian villages. The number of Subbotniks is estimated at ten thousand people. They are the descendents of Russian villagers who converted [to Judaism]. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian czar, Alexander I, expelled them from their homes and dispersed them to various places across the country. With the establishment of the Soviet Union, the Subbotniks suffered persecutions by the Communist authorities but continued to keep their Jewish identity.          
22 March, 2005
Dozens of Portuguese crypto-Jews will gather next week in Lisbon, Portugal for a special seminar and Shabbaton being organized on their behalf by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org) organization, which reaches out and assists “lost Jews” seeking to return to the Jewish people.
16 January, 2005
For the first time, members of a Lost Tribe of Israel in northeastern India will be able to read about great Jewish figures from the Talmud in their native tongue. Shavei Emissary and Author, Allenby Sela
17 December, 2004
For the first time, an Israeli organization has dispatched a rabbi to northern Brazil to do outreach work among the numerous Bnai Anousim (descendants of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition) living in the region. Rabbi Avraham Amitai, a graduate of Israeli rabbinical seminaries who is fluent in Hebrew, English and Portuguese, was sent recently to serve as a full-time emissary in the Brazilian cities of Recife and Fortaleza by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization (formerly known as Amishav).
29 November, 2004
The ‘Shavei Yisrael’ Foundation, together with the Interior Ministry and other bodies, to turn dream of bringing entire community to Israel into a reality. Sons of the Bnei-Menashe community, who immigrated to Israel from India without their families several years ago and joined the IDF, have requested that their parents be brought to Israel.
03 November, 2004
Jerusalem Post This past Sunday, Jin Wen-Jing, an 18-year-old student at the Yemin Orde youth village, went before a Haifa conversion court under the auspices of the Chief Rabbinate. After administering an oral examination aimed at assessing her commitment to Judaism as well as her knowledge of Jewish law and tradition, the three rabbis comprising the Beit Din [rabbinical court] informed Wen-Jing that they had decided to accept her as a Jew. Speaking in fluent Hebrew, Wen-Jing was quick to express her joy, and relief, at the court's decision. "I was very nervous, but now I am very happy," she said. "This has always been my family's dream - to return to our roots."
12 August, 2004
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