Bnei Menashe youth celebrate end of the school year in Acre
It's a tradition for young people all over the world: the end of the year is a time for celebration. As a famous rock singer once crooned, "No more teachers, no more books"...
Bnei Menashe youth celebrate end of the school year in Acre
Bat mitzvah in Nigeria
How do you dress for a bat mitzvah in Nigeria? Not much different than in Israel - with a fluffy pink dress and a crown! Gadi Bentley, who was Shavei Israel's first emissary to Africa's Igbo Jewish community (we wrote about him here and his successors, Noga Kohl and Michal...
Krakow rides for the living and celebrates Jewish life in Poland
In 1945, when the Nazis were defeated and World War II came to a tragic close, Marcel Zielinski set out on foot from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and walked back to his hometown of Krakow. [caption id="attachment_32655" align="alignleft" width="300"] Marcel Zielinski at Auschwitz[/caption] Seventy-one years later, Zielinski...
PICTURES: Shavei Israel’s Beit Miriam community center
Beit Miriam is Shavei Israel's community center for Bnei Menashe youth in Kiryat Arba, south of Jerusalem. This unique social and cultural club offers courses in computers, English, Hebrew and Judaism. It is a home away from home for the next generation of Bnei Menashe...
New Shavei Israel program brings professional soccer to Bnei Menashe youth
Elad Israel and Yoel Kolshing have been soccer fans for almost all of their lives – which in their case is just nine short years. That’s the way it is with the Bnei Menashe, who start kicking the ball around almost as soon as they...
Mikveh in Madagascar: 121 Convert to Judaism
One hundred and twenty one men, women and children joined the Jewish faith last month in a far off country better known as the title to a Disney film than a hotbed of religious resurgence....
Social success: Sonia Manlun becomes third Bnei Menashe social worker in Israel
Congratulations to Sonia Manlun Lhungdim who has become the latest Bnei Menashe immigrant to Israel to graduate from social work school. Sonia joins her friends, Itzkhak and Esther Colney, who like her also graduated from the Safed Academic College over the last several years. “We are...
A most unusual match made in Belmonte, Portugal
A Roman aristocrat once asked Rabbi Yosi Ben Halafta, one of the Mishna’s leading sages, a provocative question. “In how many days did G-d create the world?” she queried. “In six,” he answered. “And what has G-d been doing since then,” she asked. “Matching couples for marriage,” Rabbi Yosi...
Celebrating Shavuot in Russia and Portugal
This weekend, the Jewish world celebrated the holiday of Shavuot, marking the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai 3,300 years ago. The Subbotnik Jewish community in Visoky, Russia, hasn't been around quite that long - the community was formed when peasants in southern Russia embraced Jewish...
Pictures from an exhibition: new Jewish calendar on display in Lodz, Poland
The faces of 15 Jewish students from the Polish town of Lodz will be featured in a stunning new calendar to be released this fall. The calendar is being sponsored by Shavei Israel and the Emuna Foundation, which began working in Poland in 2016 to...