94 Bnei Menashe Fellows completed a 25 day training course in the remote Indian state of Sikkim. The course was sponsored by Shavei Israel to train the "next generation" of Fellows, who will soon be replacing the current group which is making aliyah. Here are...
Azriel and Mayian Hmar have a comfortable life in the city of Aizawl in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Azriel, 45, is a high-level government employee and a leader in the Bnei Menahse community there. His wife, Mayian, teaches Jewish subjects and their children...
Shavei Israel’s annual summer seminar for young Polish Jews in Israel has just concluded. We put together a short video to give you a taste of the program. Includes interviews with two of the participants, background from Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, and scenes from...
[caption id="attachment_12003" align="alignleft" width="560"] Eggplant lasagna[/caption] Throughout history, entire communities of Jews became "lost" through forced conversions or gradual assimilation. However, in many cases their descendants passed down (more or less secretly) special rules, rituals, names or, most deliciously, recipes, that distinguished them from the surrounding...
Shavei Israel's annual summer seminar for young Polish Jews in Israel is now in its second week. The 16 participants have traveled the country, spent Shabbat with families, learned Hebrew and reconnected with their Jewish roots. Here are a few photos taken of the group...
Earlier this year, we reported on the emotional return to Judaism and re-marriage of Gila and Ariel Arditi, a Bnei Anousim couple originally from Colombia and now living in Israel. We now have put together a short video documentary that tells the Arditi's inspirational story...
We've previously shared with you news from the small but fervent Bnei Anousim community in El Salvador and its new Shavei Israel-sponsored emissary, Rabbi Daniel Touitou. Now the community itself has put together a video montage of pictures from recent events. We have it here....
Shavei Israel's Jewish community apartment in Katowice, Poland, now has a kosher kitchen. The apartment, which has become a hotspot of Jewish culture and music is now also a home to kosher food. We have pictures from the "kashering" of the kitchen with Shavei's emissary...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed this week on Israel Radio's IBA News program. We have the audio and you can listen to it here....
Izabella only discovered at age 13 that her grandfather was Jewish. Agata learned she was Jewish when she was 8-years-old, but her mother, afraid of what her daughter’s friends would say, refused to let Agata tell her classmates. Sandra found that her family’s name appears...
