The Jewish holiday of Purim is coming next week and Shavei Israel is once again offering its popular Spanish-language guide to Purim for the Bnei Anousim community. The e-version is available to download for free from our website....
“I lived in Florida and I ate a lot of Mexican food with jalapeno peppers. I thought I knew hot, but I never tasted anything as spicy as the ‘king pepper,’” Yitzhak Eicoff recalls. But since Yitzhak married Bnei Menashe Hadassa Tungdim from Manipur India,...
The group which made aliya last week was the first to arrive in over a year and a half, and the first from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram to move to Israel in more than three years. Last week, less than a month shy of...
The Jewish holiday of Tu B’shvat is known as “Rosh Hashana for the Trees.” And what says “new year” more than a resolution to start something new – which in the case of trees would be planting. Portuguese Bnei Anousim took to the fields in...
Portugal recently inaugurated the “Rede de Juderias,” a new tourist trail that passes through a number of historic Jewish sites in the country. Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas has been advising the Portuguese government. He was in Israel recently to promote the Jewish heritage...
The 102 Bnei Menashe immigrants who arrived in Israel from India last week are settling into their new home at the Kfar Hasidim absorption center. We have some pictures of the group here. The newcomers from Mizoram will live in Kfar Hasidim for about 3...
The second of two aliyah flights last week landed on Thursday. Seventy-two Bnei Menashe from Mizoram arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport where they were met by scores of Israelis overjoyed by the latest immigration from India. We caught the excitement on video and we have it...
They're here! The first group of 30 immigrants from India as part of Operation Menashe 2017 have landed at Ben-Gurion Airport. Shavei Israel's director of marketing and new media Laura Ben-David was there and shot some amazing photos, as the group makes their way through...
Operation Menashe 2017 is underway. The first of 30 new immigrants from the Indian state of Mizoram are heading to their new lives in Israel. We have pictures of the excitement, from packing their bags to their final moments in India before boarding their plane...
Did you want to come to Ben-Gurion Airport to greet the latest Bnei Menashe aliyah flights from India, but you couldn't make it? Never fear - through the wonders of Facebook, we can take you there. Visit Shavei Israel's Facebook page to watch three videos...
