As Shavei Israel prepares for "Operation Menashe," we introduce you to Azriel Hmar and his family from Mizoram. Azriel has been helping Shavei Israel prepare other Bnei Menashe to make aliyah, but he's had to wait seven years for the day when he too could...
Living an observant Jewish life in India is never easy, even today, but for Meir Phaltual and his family growing up, it was particularly difficult. One of nine siblings, he says that his fellow villagers “disliked us and insulted us because of our religious beliefs.”...
We have one final batch of photos from Shavei Israel’s Hanukah celebrations this year: the return of light to the infamous Steri prison in Palermo, Sicily, where Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim in southern Italy and Sicily, Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, led a candle-lighting...
The Subbotnik Jewish community in Vysoky, Russia, is getting its first new synagogue in nearly 100 years. Together with the Russian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community of Voronezh, Shavei Israel earlier this year purchased an old private home in the center of the village...
The story of a remarkable meeting between the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis to Poland in the old synagogue near the Auschwitz death camp where Rabbi Ellis read Torah for the world's top diplomat....
A Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony was held Wednesday at the infamous Steri prison in Palermo, Sicily, which served as a headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition between 1601 and 1782. The ceremony – the first of its kind – was headed by Shavei Israel's emissary to southern...
Last week, we told you about the plans our emissaries had in store for Shavei Israel Hanukah celebrations around the world. Now we have pictures. Here are some selections from Belmonte, Portugal; Albacete, Spain; Cartagena, Colombia; Catania, Italy; Krakow and Katowice, Poland; Kaifeng, China; and...
Two young women, one from the Bnei Menashe "lost" tribe of Israel in India, and another from the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, visited New York City for the first time earlier this month with Shavei Israel. Tablet Magazine's Rachel Silberstein had the chance to...
Shavei Israel’s emissaries in Europe, South America and India have a busy schedule planned for Hanukah this week. Here are some of the highlights from the Bnei Menashe in India, Bnei Anousim in Spain, Portugal and Colombia, and the Hidden Jews of Poland....
Our latest video: a short documentary telling the story of Subbotnik Jews Ariel and Moriah Shishlenikov and their aliyah process. Learn more about Shavei Israel's help in enabling the aliyah of this proud couple and many other Subbotnik Jews, most of whom hail from Visoky,...
