For the first time, Bnei Menashe in India bake their own matzah

[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...

On April 1, 2012, 14-year-old Sander Bochernikov had his brit milah (ritual circumcision) in the city of Moscow. Sander is the son of the vice president of the Visoky Subotnik community. Sander and his family formally returned to Judaism during during the holiday of Chanukah; the brit milah was the conclusion of the process. Mazal tov! [nggallery id...

La comunidad de Belmonte, donde se desempe?a nuestro emisario el Rabino Elisha Salas, cuenta con un nuevo integrante, el peque?o Ahar?n. La ceremonia del Brit Mil? fue muy emotiva, la comunidad cant? alegremente dando la bienvenida al reci?n nacido. El mohel cirujano lleg? desde Lisboa,...

Recipe for "Gato de Almendras Pesaj" Translated by Jan Lee [caption id="attachment_8288" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mallorcan Almond Torte"][/caption] A published author and chef, Antonio Pina is one of Mallorca’s foremost authorities on Balearic Island cuisine. We have profiled Pina here on the Shavei Israel website. He has devoted...

[caption id="attachment_5391" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="At Shavei's Bnei Menashe center in India "][/caption] By Abhaya Srivastava  (AFP) CHURACHANDPUR, India — In a synagogue in northeast India, a group of men pray for the chance to "return home" to a country they have never seen and which their ancestors fled...