It is not surprising to hear that Jewish life in Italy through the ages constitute a rich chapter within Jewish history. We could easily grasp its dimension by just mentioning such luminaries as Leone Ebreo (Don Yehuda Abarbanel), the celebrated medieval thinker, Rabbi Moshe Chaim...
המשאלה הגדולה ביותר של רחל סוזה לימה היא חזרתם של כל בני אנוסים לשורשיהם. רחל (איזבל), בת 39, מצהירה זאת בעיניים נוצצות מהתרגשות, כשהיא מספרת את סיפורה המרגש , ועל התחברותה מחדש ליהדות, חיפוש השורשים, ומסע מדהים מברזיל לארץ ישראל. כאן היא גרה היום עם...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund is not the only staff member to be traveling overseas to talk all things Shavei in December. While Michael is heading to the U.K. to speak at Limmud U.K., Shavei Israel’s director of marketing Laura Ben-David is heading even further west...
The timing wasn’t intentional but there is a certain prescience to the fact that on the very day of this week’s contentious U.S. elections, Israel celebrated its first ever “Aliyah Day,” emphasizing unity and a shared sense of purpose. The brand new holiday on the Israeli...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has been confirmed as a presenter at December’s Limmud conference, to take place in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Now taking place in 40 communities worldwide, from Melbourne to Moscow, Limmud started in the U.K., which remains the largest of Limmud’s network...
How were your holidays? For the Bnei Anousim celebrating in Spain, Portugal and South America, the Jewish holidays were a time of reflection, inspiration, joy and rediscovery. The High Holy Day period is now over (and the rain we prayed for has already begun to fall here in...
Less than a month before Rachel Souza Lima was scheduled to arrive in Israel on the final leg of her years-long journey to Judaism, war broke out with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. She had never been to Israel before and she was worried for...
Over the summer, Shavei Israel launched a partnership with Josh Halickman, better known as “The Sports Rabbi” and the new head of Israel’s leading soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv’s charitable organization, to enable young Bnei Menashe immigrants to meet, greet and participate on the field with some...
It’s no secret the Bnei Menashe love soccer. It’s been a regular pastime for the community in India, and immigrants who have come to Israel have kept up the tradition, holding an annual soccer tournament every year during the intermediary days of Sukkot. Rabbi Gurion Sela,...
The tractate of Sukkot in the Mishna states that, “He who has not seen the rejoicing of at the place of the water drawing has never seen rejoicing in his life.” The Mishna is referring to the custom called Simchat Beit HaShoeva, when tens of thousand of...
