Shavei Israel has appointed Aryeh Khodorkovsky to be its new emissary to work with the Subbotnik Jewish community in Visoky, Russia. Khodorkovsky will initially travel to southern Russia for two and a half months starting in mid-June. He will be joined in Visoky by his...
In 2012, Daniel Limor was invited to a royal audience with an African village king – a member of the Igbo tribe, the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The king was wearing a robe with a Star of David on it. So begins the...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed on Kol Israel - Israel Radio - this week to discuss what Passover is like in India with the Bnei Menashe. Listen to the interview here....
Mishpacha Magazine ran a feature on Shavei Israel's work with the "Hidden Jews" of Poland. It's not online yet, but we have a PDF you can download and view, as well as images of each page from the print edition of the magazine....
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, 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....
