Pesach is over - the matzah has been put away until next year and the leavened bread is adorning our tables once again. But we couldn't resist sharing a few pictures sent to us over the holiday from Shavei Israel communities around the world. We...
For our final visit to the magical world of Hanukah, Shavei Israel visits two communities that began in Eastern Europe: the "Hidden Jews" of Poland and the Subbotnik Jews of Russia and Ukraine (and more recently Beit Shemesh). Have you lit your Hanukah candles yet?...
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...
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...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund recently visited the tiny Subbotnik Jewish community in the Ukrainian village of Krivoy Rog. We’ve written about the community here. There are 56 Subbotnik Jews in this eastern Ukranian town, but their isolation has not dampened their enthusiasm or commitment...
Rabbi Shmuel Schwartz is Shavei Israel's new emissary to the Subbotnik Jewish community in Beit Shemesh. We have two videos of him leading the community in song in its pre-Hanukah celebrations this week....
What do the great synagogues of Jerusalem, Florence, Paris, Tbilisi, Prague, Moscow and Tel Aviv all have in common? They feature prominently in this year’s Shavei Israel calendar for the Subbotnik Jewish community. ...
Dr. Velvl Chernin, Shavei Israel’s coordinator for the Subbotnik Jewish community, visited Siberia this summer. In particular, the town of Zima, in southeastern Siberia in a region known as Irkutsk. Of Irkutsk’s 30,000 residents, it is believed that at least ten percent of them are...
Their numbers may be small, but their motivation is great. That was one of the conclusions from Shavei Israel’s most recent outreach mission to Ukraine to learn more about the Subbotnik Jewish community there. Eldad Fedorchuk traveled to the Ukrainian town of Krivoy Rog, in...
Shavei Israel’s new emissary to the Subbotnik Jewish community in southern Russia, Aryeh Khodorkovsky, has been keeping busy during his first month in Visoky. He's sent us pictures of some of his activities. Also in Russia, historian Eldad Fedorchuk has just completed his visit to...
