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...
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 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...
תמונות חדשות של ספר התורה החדש בקהילת "יוסף חיים" , בני האנוסים בצ'ילה ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Shavei Israel website is a great place to research the many fascinating Jewish communities that can be found in the farthest corners of the globe. We write about all kinds of Jewish groups, not only those with whom we are actively involved. In this...
When Gidon Elazar finished his mandatory military service, like so many other Israelis he had a hankering for travel. Setting his sights on the Far East, he spent much of his time in China. So began a decade-long fascination, one that continues today and that...
