For our final post-Pesach stop, we visit the Bnei Menashe in India. Our correspondent Meital Singson send us some lovely photos of the community getting ready for the holiday at the Beith Shalom center in Churachandpur, Manipur....
Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community in India came together last week to bake matzah at the Shavei Israel center in Churachandpur, a district in the northeastern state of Manipur. "It’s reminiscent of Biblical times, and our forefathers’ hurrying to flee Egypt,” said one...
It's that time of year again: when the Jewish world puts on a happy face - literally. When the masks come off, it's nothing but smiles as Jewish communities everywhere celebrate the holiday of Purim. And we've got the photos to prove it. Here are...
“I lived in Florida and I ate a lot of Mexican food with jalapeno peppers. I thought I knew hot, but I never tasted anything as spicy as the ‘king pepper,’” Yitzhak Eicoff recalls. But since Yitzhak married Bnei Menashe Hadassa Tungdim from Manipur India,...
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week. Here’s a selection of photos from India. We take a trip to Manipur, Mizoram and Erode to see how local communities light the Menorah and spin the local version of the dreidel....
Yotam Ginminthang Baite is 32 years old, with his own carpentry business, living on India’s northeastern border with Myanmar. All of his family - his parents, his siblings and their families - have already made aliyah to Israel. Finally Yotam, his wife and children are...
When Shavei Israel’s new director of marketing Laura Ben-David visited India for the first time last month to accompany a group of 50 Bnei Menashe on their journey from Manipur to Tel Aviv, she was expecting to meet people living in primitive conditions, seeking an...
From The Jerusalem Report, 1993 Could Israel be inundated with millions of Africans and Asians claiming Jewish descent? As the first members of the Shinlung tribe, from the remote Indian-Burmese border, undergo conversion in Israel, the notion is becoming ever less absurd. And Israel´s minister of...
