The Bnei Menashe community of Upper Nazareth welcomed the New Year with a pre-Rosh Hashana party in the town's community center. Dozens of Bnei Menahse newcomers, together with members of the local Garin Torani which has been supporting the Bnei Menashe since their arrival, joined with Upper...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has won the second annual "Aliyah Award" in recognition of the thousands of Jews that Shavei Israel has brought to Israel from India, China, Iberia, South America, Poland and more. The ceremony last week at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem was attended...
Shavei Israel is pleased to present a special guide for the High Holidays in Spanish, especially prepared for the Bnei Anousim*, descendants of Jews who were forcibly converted during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. The guide includes two special articles on each holiday (Rosh Hashanah,...
Recent immigrants to Israel from the Bnei Menashe, Bnei Anousim and Subbotnik Jewish communities have another reason to celebrate this New Year: the Shufersol chain of Israeli supermarkets has donated NIS 50,000 ($13,000) of coupons to the new olim to ease their holiday purchases. This is...
[caption id="attachment_33449" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ceremony in Upper Nazareth[/caption] The Bnei Menashe received a double portion of sweet tidings in preparation for Rosh Hashanah – in addition to their Shufersol coupons (see our article here), baskets of goodies were given out at ceremonies in all eight of...
Shavei Israel Chairman was interviewed on Australia's "Nothing Left" radio program. Nothing Left addresses issues of Israel advocacy and other topics of interest to the Jewish community. Previous guests have including David Hazony, Isi Liebler, Jonathan Tobin and David Bedein. On this episode, Michael Freund discusses Shavei Israel's history...
Mendel Kingbol just celebrated his 90th birthday, making him one of the oldest Bnei Menashe to make aliyah from India. But even more impressive: of Mendel’s 58 grandchildren (yes, you read that right), 43 of them live in Israel. The remaining 15 are still in the...
What’s more festive than a Jewish wedding? When the couple are both members of the Bnei Menashe community and came all the way from India to Israel to meet their beshert (their intended one). The bride Leah, 24, made aliyah with Shavei Israel’s help in 2007...
The Jewish community of Belmonte, Portugal, knows how to celebrate Shabbat with gusto. Here are a few photos from a recent Friday before sundown with Shavei Israel's emissary to the community, Rabbi Elisha Salas, who gives some of the men an impromptu lesson in tying the knots on...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was interviewed on Israel's IBA News in English following his historic meeting last month with Pope Francis in Poland. You can listen to the audio here. [audio mp3="https://www.shavei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Interview-with-IBA-English-News-meeting-with-Pope.mp3"][/audio] And read Michael's account of his meeting with the pope from The Jerusalem Post...
