For 8 days concluding last week, Shavei Israel communities celebrated Hanukah around the Jewish world by kindling the hanukkia together; frying (and then eating) some simply scrumptious sufganiyot and latkes; sitting together to study Hanukah-related Jewish sources with Shavei Israel’s eminent emissaries; and even competing...
Forty Bnei Anousim from Sicily and southern Italy participated in a two-day Shabbaton organized by Shavei Israel at the end of October. The weekend retreat was held in Palermo. We also look at other recent events for the Bnei Anousim coordinated by their Shavei Israel...
The emerging Bnei Anousim community of El Salvador marked both an emotional coming and a going over the past several months. The “coming” was the welcoming of 13-year-old Ariel Beltran into adulthood, as the young man celebrated his bar mitzvah. The “going” was a moving...
It's customary during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot to buy what are known as "the four species" - lulav (a palm frond), hadass (leaves from a myrtle tree), aravah (leaves from a willow tree) and etrog (a large yellow citron). Well we have a picture...
The guide is centered around the full birkat hamazon (Grace after Meals), which is included in Hebrew, Italian and an Italian transliteration. The Sabbath Kiddush and Havdalah prayers appear as well. In addition, there are traditional zemirot (songs) for the Sabbath (with commentaries on each song’s...
Shavei Israel has published its first comprehensive guide in Italian to the prayers, songs and customs of the Shabbat table for use primarily by the Bnei Anousim in Sicily and southern Italy. The birkon (the title is from the Hebrew for “blessing”) is centered around...
Shavei Israel has opened its first Internet radio station. If you’re a Portuguese-speaker, then “tune in” to www.radioshabel.com, the home of Shavei Israel emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas’s latest project, a website that streams Jewish music and classes 24 hours a day (but not Shabbat) to...
When Rabbi Isaac Aboud set out for Mexico in 1984 as part of the now standard Israeli post-army trek, he never expected to meet his beshert – the woman who would become his bride. But only a few days into his stay in Mexico City,...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed this week on Israel Radio's "Reshet Bet." The interview is in Hebrew. We have a link for you to listen....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has received the 2014 Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. Established in 2008 and dubbed the "Lion of Zion" award, the prize recognizes "people who put Zionism into action." Freund will receive the prize in a ceremony on Thursday, May 29, 2014,...
