102 Bnei Menashe from Mizoram are making aliyah this week. The first group of 30 arrived Tuesday night. 72 more will land at Ben-Gurion Airport on Thursday. It's the first aliyah from Mizoram since January 2014 and the start of Operation Menashe 2017 which will...
In the winter, when the sun begins to set earlier and earlier on Friday afternoons, observant Jews in the Diaspora all encounter a similar problem: they must leave work before their colleagues in order to be home in time for the start of Shabbat. Bnei...
Hanukah may be over, but we have a special bonus album of pictures from Shavei Israel communities around the world celebrating the Festival of Lights. New pictures transport us to Poland, Italy, Israel and India....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has become a Limmud groupie. Well, not quite. But he is participating in a double header of eclectic Jewish learning retreats. The first was last week in the U.K. The second will be at the end of this month in...
"After 2,700 years we have the opportunity to bring the Bnei Menashe back to our people and to our land. So why do so many of you sit on the sidelines and not get involved?" Those were the words of Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
When Avital Hnamte began to publicly identify as a Jew in India some twenty years ago, the teenage Bnei Menashe woman encountered a hostile environment. “The kids in my school didn’t hide their hate,” she recalls. “They called me names." But through the strength of...
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week. Here’s a selection of photos from India. We take a trip to Manipur, Mizoram and Erode to see how local communities light the Menorah and spin the local version of the dreidel....
Every day, the Israel Defense Force's Facebook page presents a new snippet on a soldier or an IDF program that will make you proud. This week, the IDF highlighted "Private Daniel," a member of the Bnei Menashe community who made aliyah to Israel in 2006...
Ever hear the one about the singing carpenter? His name is Itzkhak Fanai and along with his wife and two children, he is one of the one hundred Bnei Menashe who are planning their aliyah next month. Itzkhak gets his nickname through a combination of...
Twenty Bnei Menashe from the Indian state of Mizoram are due to arrive in Israel by the end of December. It will be the first group to make aliyah in 2016 and the fifth flight Shavei Israel has arranged since the Bnei Menashe immigration resumed...
