For 8 days concluding last week, Shavei Israel communities celebrated Hanukah around the Jewish world by kindling the hanukkia together; frying (and then eating) some simply scrumptious sufganiyot and latkes; sitting together to study Hanukah-related Jewish sources with Shavei Israel’s eminent emissaries; and even competing...
There is an old Russian custom to steal the shoe of a bride at her wedding. Then the bride or her family must “redeem” the shoe through a variety of different techniques. It’s all in good fun – even more so when the festivities are...
Shavei Israel has just released two new publications for the Subbotnik Jewish communities in Russia and Israel: a new Jewish calendar in Russian and a booklet about the High Holy Days, covering Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, also in Russian. The publications were put...
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the Jewish people’s receipt of the Torah on Mount Sinai as they journeyed in the desert, will be celebrated in Israel and around the world this week. The Subbotnik Jewish community has an extra reason to rejoice: Shavei...
In the second of a two part series, we profile Nadia Shishliannikov, a young Subbotnik Jew in Israel to whom Shavei Israel has given a generous scholarship to assist with her education. Nadia is 22-years old and made aliyah from Russia in 1999 at the...
Shavei Israel has given two young Subbotnik Jews in Israel generous scholarships to assist them with their education. Here is a profile of one of the two: Vitaly Grigorenko, 27, who made aliyah from Voronezh in southern Russia in 2003. He is studying to become...
Just in time for Purim, when we celebrate the ancient deliverance of the Jewish people, a long-suffering Jewish community has received some remarkably good tidings. After nearly a decade of bureaucratic torment and agony, the remaining Subbotnik Jews of the former Soviet Union will at...
The Jerusalem Post has a report on Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver who on Sunday during an interview with Israel Radio pledged to promote the aliyah of members of the Russian Subbotnik community...
Political unrest in Ukraine intensified over the last week. With thousands taking to the street to protest the government, the Jewish community in Ukraine, which numbers around 200,000 members, has been caught in the middle of the anti-government protests. Shavei Israel has worked closely...
