Dina Samte, a blind member of the Bnei Menashe, received an unprecedented honor for the Indian Jewish community: she was chosen to light one of the Israel Independence Day torches at the official state ceremony, that took place this week in Jerusalem....
This week the world marked Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Poland, the day has added meaning with the annual March of the Living, where thousands march from the Auschwitz to Birkenau concentration camps. Shavei Israel's emissary to Krakow Avi Baumol describes this year's...
For our final post-Pesach stop, we visit the Bnei Menashe in India. Our correspondent Meital Singson send us some lovely photos of the community getting ready for the holiday at the Beith Shalom center in Churachandpur, Manipur....
We have pictures from two Polish Jewish communities preparing for the Passover holiday. Watch the burning of the remaining chametz In Lodz, a mock Seder with Jewish children at the Krakow JCC, and Polish Holocaust survivors practicing Ma Nishtanah in advance of the Seder....
The Zion Torah Center community in Erode, India, was blessed this year by many Israeli visitors. Community leaders Anne and Samuel Devasahayam sent us some heartwarming photos. Who knew there was so much Jewish energy in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu! ...
Pesach is over - the matzah has been put away until next year and the leavened bread is adorning our tables once again. But we couldn't resist sharing a few pictures sent to us over the holiday from Shavei Israel communities around the world. We...
In Cali, Colombia, a new mikveh is being built for the city's Bnei Anousim community. Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Shimon Yehoshua was there with the people of "Shomer Israel," where he celebrated with a festive meal and shaharit (morning) service afterward. We have pictures. ...
Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community in India came together last week to bake matzah at the Shavei Israel center in Churachandpur, a district in the northeastern state of Manipur. "It’s reminiscent of Biblical times, and our forefathers’ hurrying to flee Egypt,” said one...
Ten Bnei Menashe couples, all of whom immigrated to Israel from Mizoram, India, in February, married at Shavei Israel’s absorption center in Kfar Hasidim on Sunday, April 2, under Jewish law in the wake of their formal conversion. We have stunning photos and video!...
Lyon Fanai is one of the Bnei Menashe immigrants who, with Shavei Israel's help, made aliyah to Israel. He wrote a personal Passover "dayenu" to express his gratitude to Shavei Israel for making his life long journey possible. "That would have been enough...
