[caption id="attachment_10561" align="alignleft" width="300"] Participants in the seminar[/caption] When most people think of the Inquisition and the subsequent expulsion from the lands where Jews had lived for hundreds of years in Europe, the immediate connotation is with Spain and Portugal. But the perpetrators of the Inquisition...
[caption id="attachment_10538" align="alignleft" width="280"] Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham conducts his virtual class[/caption] Spanish speakers can now get an hour-and-a-half dose of “live” Jewish study – entirely online – thanks to Shavei Israel’s emissary to Spain, Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, who has developed an innovative, interactive video course on...
[caption id="attachment_10257" align="alignleft" width="222"] Ilana Shaporker[/caption] In 2000, Indian-born Ilana Shaporker was living in a convent in France, studying to become a nun. And she was slowly dying – both spiritually and physically. Something was calling her towards Judaism and towards Israel. Eleven years later, she...
El Rabino Elisha Salas, se reunió con el Grupo Judeus Lusos - descendientes de anusim en Portugal - en un encuentro festivo el último día de jánuka. Durante el encuentro estudiaron, encendieron velas y compartieron de una rica comida. Estos encuentros son muy importantes para...
El Rabino Elisha Salas, emisario de Shavei Israel en Portugal, fue invitado por el Director de la escuela municipal de Belmonte para realizar una actividad alusiva a jánuka y permitir a los alumnos aprender un poco más sobre la festividad del pueblo judío. El director...
Perhaps more than any other holiday on the Jewish calendar, Hanukah celebrates the determined survival of the Jewish people. Over two millennia ago a small band of fighters, led by Judah the Maccabee, fought against the Hellenist rulers of ancient Israel who sought to assimilate...
The small village of Trancoso, Portugal, will be the site of the first Jewish religious and cultural center in the country in more than 500 years. Shavei Israel will administer the center's programming. Here are some pictures from the signing ceremony between Shavei Israel staff...
[caption id="attachment_10074" align="alignleft" width="295"] Michael Freund and Mayor Júlio José Saraiva Sarmento of Trancoso signing the agreement[/caption] Isaac Cardoso was a Jewish physician and philosopher born in the small village of Trancoso, Portugal, in 1603 to a family of Bnei Anousim (people whose Jewish ancestors were compelled...
Por primera vez luego de 500 años, fue inaugurado un centro judío en Portugal. La idea de la creación y la financiación del mismo, fue llevada a cabo por la municipalidad de Trancoso, Portugal, donde se encuentra dicho centro. A mediados de noviembre, el alcalde...
[caption id="attachment_10054" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Jewish community in Bello, Colombia"][/caption] BELLO, Colombia — They were committed evangelicals, devoted to Jesus Christ. But what some here called a spark, an inescapable pull of their ancestors, led them in a different direction, to Judaism. There were the grandparents who wouldn’t eat...
