VIDEO: Hanukah in China and Colombia
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week with song and candles and sufganiot (Hanukah donuts). Here are two more videos....
Kaifeng Jews
Campaign Kaifeng: The aliyah from China continues! Help 5 Kaifeng Jews return to Israel
In 2009, Shavei Israel received permission to bring seven young Jewish men from Kaifeng, China, to Israel. We are excited to announce today that five more Chinese Jews will soon be on their way to Israel. This time, the opportunity has been reserved for five...
New Shavei Israel emissary to Kaifeng teaches himself fluent Chinese
Tuvia Gering had never been to China. Growing up, he never met anyone from China. He wasn’t even a particular fan of Chinese food. But beginning in his last year of high school, Gering became fascinated with the Chinese language. Using just video lessons he...
Shavei Israel publishes first ever holiday guide in Chinese
Shavei Israel has expanded its popular Na’aseh Venishma series of booklets on Jewish tradition and law to Chinese. Our first ever booklet for the Jewish community in Kaifeng, China, is now in print – and it arrived just in time for the High Holy Days....
Aaron Wood: from Beijing to Safed, and now to Kaifeng
What do the Chinese people as a whole know of the small Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng? Not much, says Aaron Wood, who was born in Beijing, grew up entirely oblivious of Jews and Judaism, and yet today lives as an observant Jew in the...
Chinese Jews celebrate Passover in Kaifeng
Our coordinator for the Jewish community of Kaifeng Eran Barzilay sent us some great pictures from Passover celebrations in China this year. The Jewish world marks the holiday pretty much the same way everywhere - with matzo, eggs and reading from the Haggadah - even...
This Year in Kaifeng
Heng Shi is a Chinese Jew, born and raised in the city of Kaifeng, along the banks of the Yellow River, among hundreds of people in Kaifeng who are descendants of the city’s Jews. Through Shavei Israel's help, he made aliyah and now lives in...
Shavei Israel celebrates Purim 2015 in style
Purim 2015 has come and gone but the pictures are still flowing in to the Shavei Israel office. Now it’s time to share them with you. So strap on your jet pack, we’re going for a ride - from China to India, Poland to Portugal,...
Costumes and Cookies: Shavei Israel celebrates Purim around the world
This week, Israel and the Jewish world are celebrating the holiday of Purim. In honor of the joy the Jews felt at their last minute deliverance, Purim today is perhaps the happiest day on the Jewish calendar. Everyone dresses up in costume to read from...
Shavei Israel communities celebrate Tu B’Shvat 2015 around the world
Last week the Jewish world celebrated Tu B’Shvat, the annual “New Year for the Trees,” and Shavei Israel’s communities joined in the fun by holding parties, planting trees and eating plenty of fruits and nuts. From Portugal to Poland, Bogota to Beit Shemesh, “Lost” and...