Just in time for Pesach, Shavei Israel has published a new informational booklet for the Subbotnik Jewish community on the festival of freedom. The new booklet is the latest in a series published by Shavei Israel for the Subbotnik Jewish community. The latest booklet on...
Heng Shi is a Chinese Jew, born and raised in the city of Kaifeng, along the banks of the Yellow River, among hundreds of people in Kaifeng who are descendants of the city’s Jews. Through Shavei Israel's help, he made aliyah and now lives in...
Yotam Ginminthang Baite is 32 years old, with his own carpentry business, living on India’s northeastern border with Myanmar. All of his family - his parents, his siblings and their families - have already made aliyah to Israel. Finally Yotam, his wife and children are...
Tablet Magazine recently published an extensive profile of Shavei Israel and its chairman and founder Michael Freund. Reporter Matthew Fishbine spent months working on the piece, which included a visit to India with Shavei Israel to report on the Bnei Menashe. Fishbine gives his impressions...
Israel National News profiled Shavei Israel and its founder Michael Freund in this article, which focuses on Shavei's work in India with the Bnei Menashe and in Europe and the Americas with Bnei Anousim....
Israel National News reports on how one rabbi is leading efforts across Italy to build new communities for long lost Jews. A profile of Shavei Israel's emissary to the Bnei Anousim of Sicily and southern Italy, Rabbi Pinhas Punturello....
In 1614, the first Jewish cemetery was established in Amsterdam. The cemetery celebrated the 400th anniversary of its construction in December of last year, and Rabbi Elisha Salas, Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim in Portugal, was invited to attend the festivities. For Rabbi...
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...
Last week, Portugal made an historic decision to offer dual citizenship to the descendants of Sephardi Jews who were exiled or compelled to embrace Catholicism as Anousim (or Marranos) during the terrible years of the Inquisition over 500 years ago. Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
In 2012, the Spanish government approved a draft bill offering citizenship to the descendants of Sephardi Jews who were exiled or compelled to embrace Catholicism as Anousim (or Marranos) during the terrible years of the Inquisition over 500 years ago. Last week, Portugal followed suit....
