Subbotniks

Tu B’Shvat – the Jewish holiday familiar to every Israeli from kindergarten on up as the “New Year for the Trees” – is not so well known among the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia. So, last week, Shavei Israel sponsored a festive Tu B’Shvat party...

The Subbotnik Jewish community in Beit Shemesh celebrated Tu B'Shvat this year with Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Zelig Avrasin and our coordinator for Eastern Europe and Russia, Esther Surikova. Here are a few pictures from the festivities. [nggallery id=282]...

The Subbotnik Jewish community in Vysoky, Russia, is getting its first new synagogue in nearly 100 years. Together with the Russian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community of Voronezh, Shavei Israel earlier this year purchased an old private home in the center of the village...

Our latest video: a short documentary telling the story of Subbotnik Jews Ariel and Moriah Shishlenikov and their aliyah process. Learn more about Shavei Israel's help in enabling the aliyah of this proud couple and many other Subbotnik Jews, most of whom hail from Visoky,...

Ariel and Moria Shishliannikov are the latest members of the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia to make aliyah. But they are also the first to do so since 2005, when Israel’s government inexplicably shut down the aliyah of the Subbotnik Jews. Now, with Shavei Israel’s...

Shavei Israel's "Roots" email newsletter has reached an important milestone - its hundredth publication since we started more than three years ago. To celebrate, we're taking a look back at some of the articles you told us were the most significant or meaningful stories we've...

Nuestro emisario para los subotniks en Visoky, el Rabino Shlomo Zelig Avrasin, pasó un intenso mes de abril en su comunidad. Gracias a su arduo trabajo, dos mujeres más pudieron realizar su conversión en el tribunal rabínico de Moscú y sumergirse en la mikve ese...

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