The November 15, 2013 weekend edition of The Jerusalem Post Magazine ran a major feature on Shavei Israel's recent seminar in Katowice, Poland and the revival (or continuation) of the Jewish community there. Here's how the article appeared in the print edition....
Ruth Haokip came from India, a member of Bnei Menashe, “the children of Menashe.” Jin Jin grew up more than 1,700 miles away, in Kaifeng, China. And on the Upper West Side, they spoke about what they had in common: Both were members of “lost”...
It’s called “Study of Torah Street” in Chinese and for hundreds of years was the center of Jewish life in the ancient Chinese capital of Kaifeng. But since the 1850s, when the synagogue was shuttered and the last rabbi passed away, the “Study of Torah...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund will be speaking this Thursday, November 7, 2013, at Touro College and University in New York. If you're in town, click here to view more details....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed this week on Israel Radio's IBA News program. We have the audio and you can listen to it here....
The Bnei Menashe in India? The descendants of the Anousim in Spain? The Levi family who turned into Li in Kaifeng, China? Read Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv's take on Shavei Israel in this insightful profile of Founder and Chairman Michael Freund, as part of the "100...
[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...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund spoke on Kol Israel's English-language radio news program about our seminar for young Polish Jews taking place this week in Israel. Click below to listen to the interview. Kol Israel in English on Poland seminar in Israel - August 22 2012...
Jewish liturgy and ritual frequently remind us that the Israelites were scattered to the “four corners of the earth,” as symbolized by the four fringes of the tallit, or prayer shawl. The extent of the geographic dispersion of the Jews over millennia has been vast,...
[caption id="attachment_8991" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Class being taught in Poland"][/caption] After an unprecedented four-day seminar in the laws of kashrus hosted in Cracow by the nonprofit organization Shavei Israel, 17 Polish Jews began the certification process to become kashrus supervisors - the first event of this kind to take...
