[caption id="attachment_10979" align="alignleft" width="300"] Seder in Krakow March 24 (photo credit: Nissan Tzur)[/caption] KRAKOW – Seventy years after most of Polish Jewry died in the Holocaust, it seems that Jewish life in Poland is experiencing a revival. More than 150 people gathered at the Jewish Community Center...
Here are a few photos from our most recent seminar in southern Italy. [nggallery id=211] ...
[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_10458" align="alignright" width="215"] The Bnei Moshe, including Naomi Orkisa, made aliyah from Cajamarca, Peru[/caption] By day, she works in a mushroom farm on a hillside outside Jerusalem. At night, she dreams of a new career: a profession in which she can stand tall rather than...
[caption id="attachment_10330" align="alignleft" width="300"] Two Bnei Menashe show their brand new Israeli identity cards while still in India[/caption] Fundamentally Freund: The return of the Bnei Menashe to our people is a tangible reminder of the power of Jewish memory to overcome all obstacles, and the inevitability...
[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...
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...
[caption id="attachment_9960" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bnei Menashe girl looking forward to aliyah"][/caption] On October 24, the government passed an historic decision, one that paves the way for the return of a Lost Tribe of Israel to Zion. Resolution 5180, which received unanimous ministerial approval, will allow 275 members...
Baruj García se encontraba en su cuarto año de estudio para convertirse en cura en Barcelona, España, cuando se dio cuenta que tenía otro llamado más fuerte – reclamar sus raíces judías como Ben Anús ...
[caption id="attachment_9715" align="alignright" width="110" caption="Carolina"][/caption] "As a girl I just wanted to be Jewish" - Carolina, 23, from Krakow, Poland, tells her story for Rosh Hashana. I learned about my Jewish roots only several years ago, as an adult. But even as a small child I had...
