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...
Shavei Israel’s activities in Poland have been mentioned several times in the news in the past few weeks. The Times of Israel has an article about how young Polish Jews are embracing their “hip” Jewish ancestry. The Polish television station ITV has a report...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was a guest on the Yishai Fleisher radio show on September 22, 2014. Michael spoke about the activities of Shavei Israel. You can listen to the interview here:...
A dramatic new study concludes that all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to a “bottleneck” of just 350 individuals, dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago. The study, which was conducted by several Israeli researchers, puts to rest a long standing debate...
After ten years in the Heichal Shlomo building adjacent to Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue, Shavei Israel has moved to new, more spacious offices to better support our growing number of activities in Israel and abroad. Shavei Israel's Machon Miriam Spanish and Portuguese-language Institute for Conversion and...
Shavei Israel has been awarded a grant from the Natan Fund, a community of young philanthropists based in New York City, dedicated to promoting Jewish and Israeli social innovation. Shavei is one of 54 grants granted by Natan for 2014-2015....
The Jewish Voice newspaper ran an in-depth profile of Shavei Israel Founder and Chairman Michael Freund this past week, calling him the "Indian Jones of 'Lost Jews.'" We have the article for you here....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed this week on Israel Radio's "Reshet Bet." The interview is in Hebrew. We have a link for you to listen....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has received the 2014 Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. Established in 2008 and dubbed the "Lion of Zion" award, the prize recognizes "people who put Zionism into action." Freund will receive the prize in a ceremony on Thursday, May 29, 2014,...
The Jerusalem Post has a report on Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver who on Sunday during an interview with Israel Radio pledged to promote the aliyah of members of the Russian Subbotnik community...
