Gadi Bentley, Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Igbo, a possible “lost” Jewish tribe in Nigeria, recently returned from his mission with some fascinating stories and even more intriguing pictures. Here are a few that he sent to us. An estimated 3,000 Igbo identify as Jewish and...
Shavei Israel’s emissaries to the Zion Torah Center community - Tamar and Yishai Tzur - have had a memorable first four months in Erode, India. Together with five of their seven children, the Tzurs have brought Torah learning and Hebrew language instruction to this formerly Christian,...
It's been a busy week for Gao Yichen, Yue Ting, Li Jing, Li Yuan and Li Chengjin, the five Chinese Jewish women who made aliyah last week with Shavei Israel's help. After their emotional departure from Kaifeng (see picture above) and their subsequent arrival at Ben-Gurion...
[caption id="attachment_26685" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chinese Jewish women embrace at Ben-Gurion Airport (photo credit: Laura Ben-David)[/caption] They’re here! For the past few months, we’ve been sharing with you the stories of five Chinese Jewish women who, with Shavei Israel’s help, received permission to make aliyah. On Monday, February...
The aliyah of the five Jewish women from Kaifeng China has been all over the news this week. Both local and international media wrote about it, and TV stations in Israel and the U.S. covered it. We’ve put together the links so you can follow...
[caption id="attachment_26475" align="alignleft" width="300"] Preparing for Shabbat ata Polish Shabbaton[/caption] It was a cold Shabbat in February but for a group of young Polish Jews, it must have felt like Passover already. That’s because the focus of the mid-winter Shabbaton held at the Oki Doki Hostel...
[caption id="attachment_26448" align="alignleft" width="300"] Yue Ting in China[/caption] The aliyah from China continues. In the final installment of our series of profiles of the five young women from the Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng who have just immigrated to Israel, please meet Yue Ting. When Yue Ting made aliyah this week,...
The aliyah from China continues. We have one more in our series of profiles of the five young women from the Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng who have just immigrated to Israel. Please meet Li Yuan. When Li Yuan was a little girl growing up in Kaifeng, China, her...
[caption id="attachment_26426" align="alignleft" width="222"] Li Chengjin with her passport and visa ready for Israel[/caption] The aliyah from China continues. In our continuing series of profiles of the five young women from the Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng who will be immigrating to Israel in the coming...
Eldad Villegas grew up in the city of Bello, Colombia. But when he came to Israel in 1998 for the first time as a tourist, “something that was asleep inside of me awakened,” he says. “It was a deep love for Israel; its music, its...
