Fundamentally Freund: A Jewish wedding in Warsaw

[caption id="attachment_9037" align="alignleft" width="231" caption="Wedding in Warsaw"][/caption] Last Thursday evening, hundreds of guests milled about, chatting amiably as they awaited the start of the joyous ceremony. Bedecked in white, the striking bride made her way down the aisle, each step drawing her closer to the wedding canopy...

En la ciudad de Granada, se ha abierto un nuevo grupo de estudios con el Rabino Nissán Ben Avraham, emisario de Shavei Israel en España. El grupo comenzó sus encuentro en el mes de mayo de forma muy exitosa y todos los integrantes se encontraban...

Miquel Segura, el primer Chueta que retornó al judaísmo sin atravesar la conversión (con la ayuda de Shavei Israel), sacó un nuevo libro en catalán relatando su historia personal, denominado “La historia somos nosotros”. Su gira de presentación del libro fue sumamente exitosa, y pasó...

Nuestro emisario en Katowice, el Rabino Yehoshua Ellis, festejó junto a su comunidad, el día de la independencia israelí. A la celebración asistieron cerca de 50 personas, y eso que se trata de una pequeña comunidad! El Rabino habló del significado religioso y nacional del...

From Japan to Jerusalem: the story of Moshe Hattori He served as a Protestant minister in Japan’s fourth-largest city, presiding over a prominent Christian congregation where he was loved and respected by all. But growing doubts about the veracity of his faith led Nobutaka Hattori...

[caption id="attachment_8991" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Class being taught in Poland"][/caption] After an unprecedented four-day seminar in the laws of kashrus hosted in Cracow by the nonprofit organization Shavei Israel, 17 Polish Jews began the certification process to become kashrus supervisors - the first event of this kind to take...

[caption id="attachment_8984" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Christopher Columbus bids farewell to his son Diego at Palos, Spain, before embarking on his first voyage on August 3, 1492 (from CNN website)"][/caption] Today marks the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He...