A group of 10 people from southern Italy – including both Bnei Anousim and members of the Jewish community of Naples – were in Israel for 10 days over the summer for a special seminar co-sponsored by Shavei Israel. We have pictures and a video.Este...
They have been Italian for generations but alongside Catholic roots, Jewish roots are being revealed, as well as a 500-year-old Torah scroll and a Shema Yisrael prayer found by chance in a basement. What makes hundreds of people dig into their lives? --------- The phenomenon of Anousim, Jews forced to...
The rabbi didn’t know what to make of Genie Milgrom. She had placed on the table before him reams of documentation going back hundreds of years, all demonstrating what she hoped would be incontrovertible proof that her family’s ancestors in Spain were Bnei Anousim. There...
The Jewish community of Belmonte, Portugal, is ready for Sukkot as well. In the capable hands of Shavei Israel's emissary to the region, Rabbi Elisha Salas, a beautiful new sukka has been built, ready to hear the festival evening Kiddush on Wednesday night. Here are...
Last Thursday, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the first in a new series of four seminars sponsored by Shavei Israel for Cheutas in Palma de Mallorca took place. 50 people from the Palma region, mostly Jews and Chuetas attended the seminar, which featured...
[caption id="attachment_12003" align="alignleft" width="560"] Eggplant lasagna[/caption] Throughout history, entire communities of Jews became "lost" through forced conversions or gradual assimilation. However, in many cases their descendants passed down (more or less secretly) special rules, rituals, names or, most deliciously, recipes, that distinguished them from the surrounding...
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...
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....
A new photo gallery of pictures taken with Rabbi Daniel Touitou, Shavei Israel's new emissary to the El Salvador community of Bnei Anousim.גלריית תמונות חדשה מקהילת בני האנוסים באל סלבדור, יחד עם שליח שבי ישראל הרב שניאל טוויטו....
Shavei Israel has appointed two new emissaries to work with Bnei Anousim communities in Latin America. Rabbi Daniel Touitou is working with Bnei Anousim in El Salvador while Rabbi Rafael Zerajia is now in Chile supporting the Bnei Anousim community there. Learn more about the...
