Every month Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, Shavei Israel's envoy in Spain, travels around the country to visit different study groups. In the following pictures, Rabbi Ben-Avraham explains the rules and customs of the Passover Seder. Rabbi Ben-Avraham also took the opportunity to say the traditional blessing...
activamente sus ra?ces jud?as. Hoy en d?a, a los 65 a?os, es profesor de secundario retirado, vive en Granada, Espa?a y crea hermosas obras de arte judaico. Aqu? comparte su historia con nosotros.
?Qu? sab?a del juda?smo y de los jud?os durante su infancia y adolescencia?
Desde mi adolescencia que creo que el pueblo jud?o es el pueblo elegido para transmitir la palabra del Creador y que Di?s le dio la Biblia al pueblo de Israel.
Mis padres nunca me transmitieron ninguna informaci?n sobre mis ra?ces jud?as. 
El 6 de febrero del a?o 2011 a las 03:00 AM de la madrugada avisaron a mi padre que mi abuelo Jos? Sanzana Sanzana hab?a muerto. Ese d?a era mi cumplea?os n?mero 28 que llegaba con tan dura noticia.
Conoc? a mi abuelo cuando ten?a 5 a?os de edad, la raz?n, fue otra experiencia de p?rdida humana y espiritual de mi familia. Mi hermano mayor de edad de 23 a?os hab?a muerto en un accidente automovil?stico, mi padre y mi madre estaban devastados. Mi abuelo junto a mi bisabuela me llevaron con ellos y era el comienzo de saber y aprender una gran verdad. As in many parts of the world, it's not always easy to get kosher food in Portugal. Now, at least, kosher challah bread is available in Belmonte, thanks to Shavei Israel emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas. Under Rabbi Salas's supervision, challahs are prepared once a month at a local bakery and are offered for sale to the...
En el mes de marzo, tuvo lugar un curso de hebreo libre en la ciudad de Belmonte. El mismo fue auspiciado por la municipalidad local. El Rabino Elisha Salas, emisario de Shavei Israel en Portugal, dict? el curso y en ?l participaron 23 alumnos, entre...
In March 2012, Shavei Israel's emissary to Portugal, Rabbi Elisha Salas, taught a Hebrew course in the town of Belmonte. The course, which was offered free of charge, was attended by 23 students, including not only people from the local Jewish community but also city council...
[caption id="attachment_8381" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Jose Manuel Camarero"][/caption] Jose Manuel Camarero has been fascinated by Judaism since he was a teenager. Ten years ago, he began to actively explore his Jewish roots. Today, the 65-year-old retired high school teacher from Granada, Spain, is creating beautiful Jewish art....
[caption id="attachment_8374" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Workshop participants and their matzah"][/caption] For nearly a decade, Shavei Israel has shipped up to 60 kilograms of matzah a year to India for the Bnei Menashe to use during the week of Passover. That has now come to an end: the...
[caption id="attachment_8367" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="In front of Ohel Michael in Myanmar"][/caption] Last month, we reported on Simeon Hatlang, one of Shavei Israel’s two Bnei Menashe Fellows in Myanmar (Burma), and his six-month stay in India for intensive training in Hebrew and Judaism. Hatlang returned to Myanmar...
