Shavei Israel’s emissaries in Europe, South America and India have a busy schedule planned for Hanukah this week. Here are some of the highlights from the Bnei Menashe in India, Bnei Anousim in Spain, Portugal and Colombia, and the Hidden Jews of Poland....
Shavei Israel has appointed two new emissaries: one to Poland and another to serve in Colombia. Rabbi Avi Baumol will be serving the Jewish community in Krakow. Rabbi Marcelo Shimon Yehoshua will be our new emissary traveling between Bnei Anousim communities in Colombia. Here’s a...
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....
Shavei Israel held its first ever weekend Shabbaton in Katowice, Poland, at the end of October. Seventy people from throughout Poland (and a few special guests from Israel, including Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund) attended the 3-day seminar, including 40 from the Katowice community itself....
Shavei Israel held its first ever weekend Shabbaton in Katowice, Poland at the end of October. Seventy people from throughout Poland (and a few special guests from Israel, including Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund) attended the 3-day seminar, including 40 from the Katowice community itself....
Slowly and somewhat hesitantly, Karol began to recite the blessing before the reading of the Torah. With his parents and siblings looking on in evident pride, and the congregation enveloping him in warmth and joy, Karol underwent this sublime rite of passage into manhood, just...
Jews have lived in the Silesia region of Poland for hundreds of years. In the mid 1700’s, a Jewish entrepreneur, Salomon Isaac, became one of the founders of the Upper Silesian mining and metallurgical industries. A synagogue in Tarnowskie Góry was established in 1864; it was burned to...
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins this Wednesday night and we have a few pictures to mark the festivities. For the past four years, the Jewish community of Katowice, Poland, has built a sukka (a temporary "hut" used during the week-long holiday) in the courtyard...
In an open air plaza, on the very spot where a synagogue once stood in the Polish town of Tarnowskie Góry, two proud Jewish women conducted a workshop on kosher food and Jewish cooking. The women are two of the three residents of Shavei Israel’s...
