VIDEO: Chanukah around the world, 2017
Shavei Israel takes you on a pictorial tour of Chanukah around the world. [vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w49dS-XmuM']...
Bnei Anousim: video
Our students in Spain & Portugal join the Global Day of Jewish Learning
There is no concrete explanation for people's attraction to the Jewish world wherever they are, even if all the sociology scholars will try to prove the opposite point of view based on all kinds of theories and sciences. It is simply amazing to see how...
President of Portugal speaks to Jewish community in Lisbon
The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, visited the Jewish community in Lisbon. Shavei Israel's Portuguese emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas was among the dignitaries attending, along with the Israeli ambassador to Portugal and representatives of the three Jewish communities in Portugal....
VIDEO: Hanukah in China and Colombia
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week with song and candles and sufganiot (Hanukah donuts). Here are two more videos....
VIDEO: Hanukah in Belmonte, Portugal
We have two Hanukah videos from Belmonte, Portugal where Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas led the community in songs for the holiday....
VIDEO: Colombian television documentary profiles Bnei Anousim in Bello
Rabbi Eldad Villegas grew up in the city of Bello, Colombia believing he was Christian. By 19 years of age, he was the pastor of a church with 3,000 members. But something didn’t feel right. Were there Jewish roots in his past? After a trip...
Kivunim students visit Steri Palace in Sicily
Kivunim is a gap year program that brings pre-college American Jews to Jewish communities around the world to learn about their roots. The latest Kivunim cohort found themselves recently in Palermo where they met with Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim in Sicily and...
VIDEO: Gila and Ariel Arditi get marriedVIDEO: Gila y Ariel Arditi se casan
Earlier this year, we reported on the emotional return to Judaism and re-marriage of Gila and Ariel Arditi, a Bnei Anousim couple originally from Colombia and now living in Israel. We now have put together a short video documentary that tells the Arditi's inspirational story...
Video collage from El Salvador
We've previously shared with you news from the small but fervent Bnei Anousim community in El Salvador and its new Shavei Israel-sponsored emissary, Rabbi Daniel Touitou. Now the community itself has put together a video montage of pictures from recent events. We have it here....