Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund interviewed on Israel Radio
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....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund interviewed on Israel Radio
Summer seminar for “Hidden Jews” of Poland launches today in Jerusalem
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...
Israeli paper highlights Shavei Israel
The Israeli newspaper Maariv and its online site NRG included Shavei Israel Founder and Chairman Michael Freund on its list of the "100 most influential Jews." Maariv produced a lovely 2-minute video about Shavei Israel and its activities around the world. The video (originally in...
First photos from El Salvador Bnei Anousim community
A new photo gallery of pictures taken with Rabbi Daniel Touitou, Shavei Israel's new emissary to the El Salvador community of Bnei Anousim.גלריית תמונות חדשה מקהילת בני האנוסים באל סלבדור, יחד עם שליח שבי ישראל הרב שניאל טוויטו....
Shavei Israel appoints new Latin American emissaries
Shavei Israel has appointed two new emissaries to work with Bnei Anousim communities in Latin America. Rabbi Daniel Touitou is working with Bnei Anousim in El Salvador while Rabbi Rafael Zerajia is now in Chile supporting the Bnei Anousim community there. Learn more about the...
Classes and new Torah in Chile
תמונות חדשות של ספר התורה החדש בקהילת "יוסף חיים" , בני האנוסים בצ'ילה ...
“New Generation” of Bnei Menashe leaders to meet at India seminar
On August 1, a convoy of some 100 Bnei Menashe will set out from their homes in the northeastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram for a demanding 50-hour journey across the country. The vehicles will stop only a few times for passengers to stretch...
Spotlight on Other Communities: Suriname
Over the past weeks, we’ve introduced you to some of the far-flung Jewish communities we profile on the Shavei Israel website but with whom we are not actively involved. This week we turn your attention to the Caribbean and the small community on the...
Portuguese town gets first Torah in 500 years
The Isaac Cardoso Center for Jewish Interpretation in Trancoso, Portugal, was formally dedicated this weekend with a special "guest" - a new Torah scroll, the first to make its home in Trancoso in nearly 500 years. More than 60 people attended the dedication, including the...
Torah comes to TrancosoLa Torá llega a Trancoso
The Isaac Cardoso Center for Jewish Interpretation in Trancoso, Portugal, was formally dedicated this weekend with a new Torah scroll brought to the Beit Mayim Haim synagogue by Shavei's Educational Director Rabbi Eliayahu Birnbaum and Shavei Chairman Michael Freund. Here are pictures from the dedication. [nggallery...