Yom Ha'atzmaut is Israel's national Independence Day commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. The day is marked by official and unofficial ceremonies and observances throughout Israel and the Jewish world. Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day is always...
Like in previous years, this Passover our communities all over the world enjoyed the holiday. Eating matza and other special foods, gathering for the seder, taking day trips and having family time. Now Pesach is over – the matzah is finished, the special Passover dishes put...
The Beith Hillel community located in Bogota, Colombia had a very nice surprise last month and their happiness was doubled when Rabbi Shimon Yechua, emissary of Shavei Israel in Colombia, brought a new Torah scroll from the United States to the synagogue, a donation from...
We recently wrote about the Toledo to Jerusalem Exhibition, where we featured our beloved Abraham Kron the artist and his son Haym Hadar Eliahu. But there's so much more to this impressive story, of which we were happy to be a part. Abraham Kron was born...
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It wasn't until Yael Dvir asked for a day off for compatibility tests for a kidney donation that she realized that a student in the same grade she teaches, Reuven Beite, was looking for a new kidney. Reuven, from the Bnei Menashe community, immigrated to...
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vpth3xZHCTM?feature=share This fun video short by Unpacked, the website that helps people uncover the complex Jewish world, introduces our own Chaya Castillo, and her husband Eliav Riera, who are both descended from 'crypto Jews' who were forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition.Their families fled...
The Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Committee chaired by MK Oded Forer (Israel Beyteinu) held a discussion today (Monday) on MK Penina Tamano-Shata's proposal. Tamano-Shata's statement on the subject of the absorption and integration of the Bnei Menashe community from India, the phenomenon of racism from...
Shavei Israel communities all over the world celebrated Purim this week and we know they had a great time because we have the photos to prove it! In particular, we have received many, many photos and videos from some of our beloved 'emerging' communities throughout Latin...
Arthur Carlos Barros Basto was a Portuguese army officer and the founder of the Portuguese Jewish community of Porto. Nicknamed "the Portuguese Dreyfus", he was declared "immoral" in June 1937 for helping descendants of returning Jews to be circumcised. And now, he is yet again,...
