[caption id="attachment_8937" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Grandpa and granddaughter preparing for Passover in Kaifeng"][/caption] How do you celebrate Passover in China? With gefilte fish, charoset, chicken soup with dumplings, and six liters of raisin wine! Hebrew University graduate student Shulamit Gershovich has been spending the semester studying at a...
Here's a selection of pictures taken in Kaifeng just before the start of the Passover holiday. Note the yummy gefilte fish and kosher Seder plate! [nggallery id=138]...
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Ayatol?, no detendr? a Ir?n en su deseo de obtener armamento nuclear.
Se arremeti? contra el Primer Ministro Benjam?n Netanyahu y el Minstro de Defensa Ehud Barak, atac?ndolos personalmente con t?rminos tales como ?no creo en el Primer Ministro ni en el Ministro de Defensa. Realmente no creo en un liderazgo que toma decisiones de acuerdo a sentimientos mesi?nicos?. [caption id="attachment_8917" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Aaron Klein, WABC talk show host to interview Michael Freund"][/caption] Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed this week on the Aaron Klein Show. The program aired on Sunday night at 8:45 PM New York time. Aaron Klein hosts his show on...
[caption id="attachment_8910" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Michael Freund in India"][/caption] To suggest that one man alone is able to change the course of Jewish history may sound a little far-fetched, but Michael Freund is certainly making a valiant attempt to change the future of many. Since founding the organization...
[caption id="attachment_8904" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bnei Menashe olim arrive in Israel (Archive photo: Yaron Brener)"][/caption] INDIA - “From a very young age I knew that our family was from the Bnei Menashe and that we were different from our neighbors, but I didn’t know exactly how,”...
Por Jes?s Jambrina Una abuela deja algunos objetos a una de sus nietas, lanzando a esta ?ltima a una b?squeda de las ra?ces familiares. El recorrido termina en el pueblo de Fermoselle, en la provincia de Zamora, Espa?a, donde Genie descubre algunos secretos. [vimeo https://www.vimeo.com/41738429 w=500&h=281]...
Com ja sabem, la Tor? Escrita necessita les explicacions de la Tor? Oral per tal de ser comprensible. Per exemple, la Tor? diu que hem de degollar els animals per poder consumir-los, per? no diu com es fa el degollament, si ?s clavant un ganivet al cor o al coll, o si es pot fer amb un utensili que no sigui de metall, etc. Tots aquets detalls queden perfectament explicats a la Tor? Oral.
Gran part dels detalls de la Tor? Oral estan insinuats a la Tor? Escrita, per? n?hi ha molts que estan perfectament ?desconnectats? d?ella, i les instruccions foren transmeses oralment de mestres a alumnes, generaci? rere generaci? fins que fa dos mil anys van ?sser posades per escrit a causa del gran desastre de la destrucci? del Segon Temple i la dispersi? que la prossegu?. The long-awaited resumption of the Bnei Menashe aliyah from India is expected to begin this summer. The first wave of 50 families, numbering some 250 people, is slated to arrive by the end of August. Another group should be in Israel in time for Chanukah....
