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...
Shavei Israel’s annual summer seminar for young Polish Jews in Israel has just concluded. We put together a short video to give you a taste of the program. Includes interviews with two of the participants, background from Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, and scenes from...
Shavei Israel's annual summer seminar for young Polish Jews in Israel is now in its second week. The 16 participants have traveled the country, spent Shabbat with families, learned Hebrew and reconnected with their Jewish roots. Here are a few photos taken of the group...
Shavei Israel's Jewish community apartment in Katowice, Poland, now has a kosher kitchen. The apartment, which has become a hotspot of Jewish culture and music is now also a home to kosher food. We have pictures from the "kashering" of the kitchen with Shavei's emissary...
Izabella only discovered at age 13 that her grandfather was Jewish. Agata learned she was Jewish when she was 8-years-old, but her mother, afraid of what her daughter’s friends would say, refused to let Agata tell her classmates. Sandra found that her family’s name appears...
The signs were all around him, but it took 51 years for Mariusz Opałko to learn the truth about his Jewish heritage. Despite being surrounded by the mostly Jewish friends of his parents growing up, and even having a relative who was a famous klezmer...
Visit our exclusive gallery of photos from the bar mitzvah of Mariusz Aoflko at the Western Wall. An emotional journey from Poland to Jerusalem!...
Mariusz Aoflko grew up Catholic in Poland. He discovered his heritage from his dying mother 13 years ago. The revelation changed his life. Last week, he was in Jersualem to celebrate his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Here's the story....
Shavei Israel's "Roots" email newsletter has reached an important milestone - its hundredth publication since we started more than three years ago. To celebrate, we're taking a look back at some of the articles you told us were the most significant or meaningful stories we've...
