"Sukka hopping" is one of our favorite holiday activities - whether in real life or online. We started with pictures of sukkot in construction, then visited the Bnei Menashe to see their completed Sukkot in India. And now we take a quick trip around the...
We started with India, but let's move west and south now, as we visit check out the sukka building in Krakow Poland and Belmonte Portugal, before jaunting to South America where we see what the Bnei Anousim communities in Colombia and El Salvador are building....
Sarah H. is from USA. She’ll be starting her studies at Columbia University in just a few weeks. Aria Smordin is from Vancouver, Canada. She will be joining the Israel Defense Forces later this fall. But for two weeks this past July, Sarah and Aria...
In Cali, Colombia, a new mikveh is being built for the city's Bnei Anousim community. Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Shimon Yehoshua was there with the people of "Shomer Israel," where he celebrated with a festive meal and shaharit (morning) service afterward. We have pictures. ...
Yes, we know Purim was last week. But the communities that Shavei Israel supports around the world keep sending us photos. And we couldn't not share with you these delightful pictures of Bnei Anousim girls dressed like princesses, teenage boys decked out as pirates, and...
Bnei Anousim communities in Italy, Portugal and El Salvador got into the Purim spirit this year - and our photographers captured the mood....
The Jewish holiday of Tu B’shvat is known as “Rosh Hashana for the Trees.” And what says “new year” more than a resolution to start something new – which in the case of trees would be planting. Portuguese Bnei Anousim took to the fields in...
Operation Menashe 2017 is underway. The first of 30 new immigrants from the Indian state of Mizoram are heading to their new lives in Israel. We have pictures of the excitement, from packing their bags to their final moments in India before boarding their plane...
With great joy, the Bnei Anousim community of Barranquilla, Colombia honored the reception of a new Torah scroll with a traditional Hachnasat Sefer Torah ceremony. The festive event was filled with singing and dancing together with the Torah scrolls, expressing the unbreakable tie between...
In the Biblical tractate of Pirkei Avot, it is written "Im ein kemach, ein Torah," which means that "without sustenance [kemach], there cannot be Torah." But kemach is also Hebrew for bread, and on Shabbat the phrase could be read "without a yummy challah or...
