Every Friday afternoon, an extraordinary modern day Exodus takes place in San Salvador. Between 50-60 Bnei Anousim make their way by bus and by car to the Beit Israel synagogue in El Salvador’s capital. They carry with them a potluck assortment of appetizers, main dishes...
Tu B’Shvat – the Jewish holiday familiar to every Israeli from kindergarten on up as the “New Year for the Trees” – is not so well known among the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia. So, last week, Shavei Israel sponsored a festive Tu B’Shvat party...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund will be flying to India at the beginning of February – this time not to visit the Bnei Menashe in their villages, but to speak about the community at a conference on “The Judeo-Christian Heritage of the West Coast of...
Forty more Bnei Menashe made aliyah from the Indian state of Mizoram on Thursday, January 23, 2014. This followed 40 the week before, with a final group of 40 from Mizoram arriving next Thursday, January 30, 2014, for a total of 120 new immigrants in...
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, another 40 Bnei Menashe made aliyah from the Indian state of Mizoram. They will be followed by another 40 the following week on January 23, and 40 more on January 30. That's a total of 120 new immigrants who...
The Subbotnik Jewish community in Beit Shemesh celebrated Tu B'Shvat this year with Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Zelig Avrasin and our coordinator for Eastern Europe and Russia, Esther Surikova. Here are a few pictures from the festivities. [nggallery id=282]...
We have more pictures from the Vysoky synagogue construction project for the Subbotnik Jewish community in Russia. It's really coming along! [nggallery id=281]...
A group of 40 Bnei Menashe arrived on Aliyah today from India, marking the second time in the last three weeks that a group from this Lost Tribe of Israel has moved here. Arutz 7 has the story....
It’s an increasingly common story among the Jews of Poland: a grandparent, lying on his or her deathbed, reveals to the grandchild a shocking secret – that the grandparent and, as a result, his or her family, is actually Jewish. The phenomenon has occurred so...
