[caption id="attachment_10183" align="alignleft" width="300"] The 7 Kaifeng Jewish men with Michael Freund and Rabbi Menachem Weinberg[/caption] As he stood before the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court answering the final question before completing a crucial last step on the road towards his long awaited conversion to Judaism, Tony Liang...
Perhaps more than any other holiday on the Jewish calendar, Hanukah celebrates the determined survival of the Jewish people. Over two millennia ago a small band of fighters, led by Judah the Maccabee, fought against the Hellenist rulers of ancient Israel who sought to assimilate...
[caption id="attachment_10125" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kaifeng Jew at the Western Wall in Jerusalem[/caption] The age of the Internet and YouTube so often bring items of interest to our attention, many of which leave us wanting to know more. And so it was for me, after watching a...
In preparation for the first flight of Bnei Menashe immigrants in the coming weeks, Shavei Israel held a special Study Day for 80 employees from the interior, education, welfare and social services, absorption and health ministries, as well as personnel working in the cities of...
There is no official Jewish community in Czestochowa, Poland. Therefore, our envoy in Poland, Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis, decided to organize a Shabbat program in the village in cooperation with the Jewish cultural organization TSKZ. Twenty-five people attended Kabbalat Shabbat services and 15 came to Seudah Shlishit...
Nuestro emisario en Katowice, el Rabino Yehoshua Ellis, construyó la sucá comunitaria en las afueras del cementerio judío de Bytom, donde tienen un amplio espacio para todas las visitas. A diferencia de Israel, en Polonia no existen sucot prearmadas y cada año construyen la sucá...
En el mes de agosto, participaron del seminario de verano en Jerusalem organizado por Shavei Israel , 19 jóvenes polacos los cuales recientemente han descubierto sus raíces. Durante el seminario, dichos jóvenes conocieron los puntos más importantes del país, estudiaron hebreo y judaísmo y vivieron una...
The small village of Trancoso, Portugal, will be the site of the first Jewish religious and cultural center in the country in more than 500 years. Shavei Israel will administer the center's programming. Here are some pictures from the signing ceremony between Shavei Israel staff...
[caption id="attachment_10074" align="alignleft" width="295"] Michael Freund and Mayor Júlio José Saraiva Sarmento of Trancoso signing the agreement[/caption] Isaac Cardoso was a Jewish physician and philosopher born in the small village of Trancoso, Portugal, in 1603 to a family of Bnei Anousim (people whose Jewish ancestors were compelled...
