Another 40 Bnei Menashe arrive in Israel
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....
Another 40 Bnei Menashe arrive in Israel
Shavei Israel profile: Basia Wieczorek – a “third generation” Polish Jew makes aliyah
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...
Shavei emissary to Krakow Rabbi Avi Baumol revisits his Polish roots
Shavei Israel's new emissary to Krakow, Rabbi Avi Baumol, has deep Polish roots. His great-grandfather, a scion of a rabbinic family which goes back tens of generations throughout Poland, was ordained with rabbinical semicha at the tender age of just 13. His grandfather received semicha...
Stunning photos from India and Israel as Bnei Menashe make aliyah
Award-winning professional photographer Gali Tibbon, who has focused her career on documenting groups from far flung communities around the world, accompanied Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund and 38 Bnei Menashe on their journey from India to Israel on December 26, 2013. We present a selection...
Operation Menashe: A lost tribe’s journey home to Zion
It was after 3:00 a.m. on Thursday of last week, in the small airport outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, and the group of 38 travelers was exhausted. Young and old, these members of the Bnei Menashe community, which traces its descent to a lost tribe of...
Operation Menashe: Meet Elyashiv Khupchwang, making aliyah from Mizoram
Elyashiv Khupchawng recalls only too well the day he chose to publicly embrace his Bnei Menashe Jewish heritage. He was a teenager and “all of my friends simply walked away from me,” he says, matter-of-factly, but with the pain clearly still burning just slightly under...
Bnei Menashe aliyah photo gallery
The first group of Bnei Menashe from Mizoram have arrived! 38 Bnei Menashe men, women and children flew from Mizoram to New Delhi, India and then on to Israel on Thursday, December 26, 2013. Here is our exclusive photo gallery of pictures from each stop...
Group of 38 Bnei Menashe arrives in Israel
A total of 38 Indian citizens from the Bnei Menashe community made aliyah Thursday, the first cohort to arrive since the Knesset approved another wave of immigration for the group. The Jerusalem Post was at Ben-Gurion Airport and filed this report....
Operation Menashe begins this week! Next aliyah flight lands Thursday
The Bnei Menashe are coming home – and soon. The first flight of this latest group of Bnei Menashe lands this Thursday. Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund flew to India this week to accompany the 40 Bnei Menashe men, women and children, all from the...