Updates from Gan Matanel – a Jewish kindergarten in Lodz, Poland
Gan Matanel includes both studies and recreational activities. The children learn letters, counting, drawing, songs and many other skills required by standard Polish kindergartens. ...
Updates from Gan Matanel – a Jewish kindergarten in Lodz, Poland
A taste of Shavei Israel in the Poconos
Among the future leaders of the Jewish people are the several hundred attendees of the annual BBYO International Kallah seminar that takes place in a pastoral setting in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania. The program goes beyond the traditional classroom setting and includes interactive sessions...
Shavei Israel volunteer travels to Lodz to teach Hebrew
Recently Hebrew teacher & Shavei Israel volunteer Shosh Hovav traveled to the community of Lodz, Poland. Shosh and her husband were warmly welcomed by the community of Lodz, where a program of Hebrew studies for the members of the community at all levels and ages had been...
Pinchas & Linor – A Bnei Menashe Love Story
What a pleasure to celebrate with Pinchas and Linor, a wedding they waited five long years for, until after they'd both made aliyah to Israel. Our own Laura Ben-David, a guest at the wedding, took these photos of the fairy-tale event....
Gan Kohavim kindergarten in Bogota, Colombia
There's a lot of little stuff going on in our community in Bogota, Colombia. In particular, the little kids of our Gan Kohavim kindergarten of the Beit Hilel Community. There's a wealth of exciting programming and new creative projects for some of our littlest members....
Genie Milgrom from Miami, Florida awarded the Medal of the Four Sephardic Synagogues from Jerusalem
Genealogist, writer , and promoter of the Jewish Legacy in the Iberian Peninsula, good friend of Shavei Israel, Genie Milgrom, has been awarded the much coveted Medal of the Four Sephardic Synagogues from Jerusalem. ...
What’s happening in our community in Chile
Check out the latest photos from our community in Chile where Rabbi Latapiat, the Shavei Israel emissary in the region, organized a series of classes and programs for adults and kids. Among the classes available are a study of the weekly Torah portion, Hebrew and Halacha...
New lectures in the Maani Center
Shavei Israel's Maani Center continues with a series of lectures devoted to the history and traditions of various lost and hidden Jewish communities all over the world....
Son of Shavei Israel emissary fights ‘kite terror’ in Sderot
Yishai Salas from Sderot, the son of Rabbi Elisha Salas, Shavei Israel emissary in Spain and Portugal, struggles daily with kite terror. Salas, who has been working as a fireman in his city for five years, participated in extinguishing dozens of recent fires. "I feel...
225 Bnei Menashe make Aliyah from India this week
This week 225 Bnei Menashe came on aliyah to Israel! Including 80 year-old Abel Hangshing who reunited with his brother for the first time in ten years and met great-grandchildren for the first time...