Last week the Jewish world celebrated Tu B’Shvat, the annual “New Year for the Trees,” and Shavei Israel’s communities joined in the fun by holding parties, planting trees and eating plenty of fruits and nuts. From Portugal to Poland, Bogota to Beit Shemesh, “Lost” and...
The Internet has been all abuzz in the past few weeks with video about Shavei Israel. We wanted to share a few of those links with you. First, a group of Bnei Menashe who made aliyah earlier this year paid their first visit to the...
New on the Shavei Israel website: a video documenting the November 2014 aliyah of a group of Bnei Menashe. The 5-minute video includes moving footage of the Bnei Menashe as they head towards the arrival hall at Ben-Gurion Airport, as well as a meeting with...
Shavei Israel has opened a special after-school study program for Bnei Menashe youngsters who have settled with their families in the town of Upper Nazareth. The program is called Moadonit Miriam, in honor of Shavei Israel chairman Michael Freund’s maternal grandmother, Miriam Rosenthal. Fifteen to...
"Sambatyon" is the name of the legendary river beyond which the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were said to have been exiled by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser in 722 BCE. "Across the Sambatyon" is also the name of a photo exhibition on the Bnei Menashe...
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...
Paomang Issachar Haokip loves to sing. The 43-year-old Bnei Menashe from the tiny village of Mateyang in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur served as the chazan (cantor) for the community’s synagogue for ten years. Now he is singing a new song - of aliyah....
When Shavei Israel’s new director of marketing Laura Ben-David visited India for the first time last month to accompany a group of 50 Bnei Menashe on their journey from Manipur to Tel Aviv, she was expecting to meet people living in primitive conditions, seeking an...
“This was the first time I really understood what aliyah is all about,” said Tomer Yamtovich as he headed back to the bus after an emotionally uplifting hour of singing, dancing, clapping, hugging and unrestrained joy at Ben-Gurion Airport last week. Tomer is a student...
Shavei Israel appeared on the new Internet radio station "Voice of Israel" twice in the last week. First, Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund gave an interview on the morning news program. Then Shavei Israel's director of marketing Laura Ben-David sat down for 20 minutes with...
