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...
הארגון "גשרים לשלום" ביקר את בני מנשה הנמצאים כרגע במרכז קליטה בכפר חסידים, לחלוקת מגוון רחב של ציוד ופריטים נצרכים;...
During the month of July, thirty Bnei Menashe couples were married at the Kfar Hasidim absorption center in Israel. For most of the happy brides and grooms, it was not their first wedding. But, having recently rejoined the Jewish people, it was the first ceremony...
Yaakov Misao’s grandfather may have been the first Bnei Menashe to set foot in the Holy Land in nearly 2,700 years when he visited Israel as part of the British Navy during World War Two. 70 years later, Yaakov is now living not far from...
The guide is centered around the full birkat hamazon (Grace after Meals), which is included in Hebrew, Italian and an Italian transliteration. The Sabbath Kiddush and Havdalah prayers appear as well. In addition, there are traditional zemirot (songs) for the Sabbath (with commentaries on each song’s...
Shavei Israel has published its first comprehensive guide in Italian to the prayers, songs and customs of the Shabbat table for use primarily by the Bnei Anousim in Sicily and southern Italy. The birkon (the title is from the Hebrew for “blessing”) is centered around...
There are few views sweeter than the sight of the Israeli coastline appearing on the horizon after miles of blue ocean, as glimpsed from high above on an airplane winging its way towards the Holy Land. How much more satisfying, then, for someone making aliyah...
Por Abraham ben Abraham
?Si en la Tierra que te da Hashem, tu Dios, hubiere una persona necesitada entre ustedes, cualquiera de tus hermanos en cualquiera de tus ciudades, no endurecer?s tu coraz?n ni cerrar?s tu mano a tu hermano necesitado. Sino que le abrir?s tu mano; le prestar?s su carencia que le haga falta a ?l?
Este vers?culo es el origen b?blico de la obligaci?n de ayudar a otros: ?Cuando abras tu mano hacia ?l y le prestes su carencia que le hace falta a ?l??. Sin embargo, la frase es redundante: si es carencia, le hace falta; si le hace falta es carencia. Rabbi Avi Baumol, Shavei Israel's emissary to Krakow, Poland, accompanied our annual summer seminar to Israel for young Polish Jews. He describes his experience with the group in this article, which also demonstrates Rabbi Baumol's "other" career - he is now a licensed Israeli tourguide!...
Before World War 2, the population of the small Polish town of Wolbrom was more than a third Jewish. But, by the end of the Holocaust, the Nazis had murdered nearly the entire Jewish community. Of the 7-member Narcissus family, only the oldest, 16-year-old Naftali,...
