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What was the highlight of your summer vacation? While it’s still only early August, for 21 young Poles with Jewish roots, the answer is already clear: Israel.Shavei Israel’s annual summer seminar in Israel for a group of “Hidden Jews” of Poland concluded last week. The group traveled up and down the country as they toured, studied and discovered the beauty of the Jewish people.
Their two-week itinerary included Shabbat in the Old City of Safed; scaling the heights of Mount Arbel and hiking in the Judean Desert (including up the “snake path” to uncover the mysteries of Masada); and taking a break from the heat by traipsing through a river near Beit Shean. The group had a full schedule of activities in Jerusalem: a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance museum and nearby Mount Herzl military cemetery, exploring the narrow alleyways of Nachlaot in the city center, plunging into the tunnels that run alongside and under the Western Wall, and sifting through archaeological treasures at Emek Tzurim near the City of David.
Shavei Israel has opened its first Internet radio station. If you’re a Portuguese-speaker, then “tune in” to www.radioshabel.com, the home of Shavei Israel emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas’s latest project, a website that streams Jewish music and classes 24 hours a day (but not Shabbat) to...
Aqu? les traemos una clase de 10 minutos en YouTube, sobre la parash? de la semana, Shlaj. La parash? nos habla de los esp?as que Mosh? env?a a investigar la tierra de Israel. El Rabino conecta este acontecimiento de triste final, con la importancia de...
Retornamos al relato de la historia del pueblo de Israel en el desierto. Los viajes, las crisis, la elecci?n de nuevos l?deres y el cambio de los primog?nitos por los levitas. Todo en este video de 10 minutos. No se lo pierdan!
https://youtu.be/050nyi4XFQw...
Are Spanish King Ferdinand and his wife Queen Isabella burning with rage? Over five centuries after they cruelly expelled the country’s Jews in 1492, Spain now finds itself clamoring for their return. The Spanish government has approved a draft bill offering citizenship to descendants of...
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Sixty-one years after his death in 1961, Captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto, the founder of the Jewish community in Porto and a passionate advocate for the Bnei Anousim of Portugal, has been posthumously reinstated into the Portuguese army. He...
Por Michael Freund
A pesar de que a?n no se ha presentado, el gran esperado redentor de Israel, se encuentra en los titulares de los ?ltimos d?as.
Desde el Sydney Morning Herald hasta el Vancouver Sun, los titulares de los diarios alrededor del mundo hablan todos de las declaraciones del anterior director del Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, el cual recientemente declar? que los l?deres ?mesi?nicos? de Israel est?n enga?ando al p?blico respecto a Ir?n.
Hablando en un foro p?blico en Kfar Saba, Diskin insisti? que un ataque israel? contra las instalaciones nucleares del
[caption id="attachment_1839" align="alignright" width="180"] Yuval Diskin[/caption]
Ayatol?, no detendr? a Ir?n en su deseo de obtener armamento nuclear.
Se arremeti? contra el Primer Ministro Benjam?n Netanyahu y el Minstro de Defensa Ehud Barak, atac?ndolos personalmente con t?rminos tales como ?no creo en el Primer Ministro ni en el Ministro de Defensa. Realmente no creo en un liderazgo que toma decisiones de acuerdo a sentimientos mesi?nicos?.
Por Rab? Niss?n Ben Avraham
Com ja sabem, la Tor? Escrita necessita les explicacions de la Tor? Oral per tal de ser comprensible. Per exemple, la Tor? diu que hem de degollar els animals per poder consumir-los, per? no diu com es fa el degollament, si ?s clavant un ganivet al cor o al coll, o si es pot fer amb un utensili que no sigui de metall, etc. Tots aquets detalls queden perfectament explicats a la Tor? Oral.
Gran part dels detalls de la Tor? Oral estan insinuats a la Tor? Escrita, per? n?hi ha molts que estan perfectament ?desconnectats? d?ella, i les instruccions foren transmeses oralment de mestres a alumnes, generaci? rere generaci? fins que fa dos mil anys van ?sser posades per escrit a causa del gran desastre de la destrucci? del Segon Temple i la dispersi? que la prossegu?.
Nos complace informarles que hemos activado nuestro foro, en el cual pr?ximamente iremos incluyendo nuevos temas de debate, para complementar nuestras publicaciones y clases en el aula virtual.
Ya pueden entrar al mismo, y participar dej?ndonos sus opiniones, ideas, sugerencias, etc.
Encontrar?n un icono como este ?en la barra lateral derecha de sus pantallas.
Tambi?n pueden entrar por el?enlace en la secci?n de consultas.
Polish seminar participants sift through archaeological treasures in Jerusalem[/caption]
What was the highlight of your summer vacation? While it’s still only early August, for 21 young Poles with Jewish roots, the answer is already clear: Israel.
Shavei Israel’s annual summer seminar in Israel for a group of “Hidden Jews” of Poland concluded last week. The group traveled up and down the country as they toured, studied and discovered the beauty of the Jewish people.
Their two-week itinerary included Shabbat in the Old City of Safed; scaling the heights of Mount Arbel and hiking in the Judean Desert (including up the “snake path” to uncover the mysteries of Masada); and taking a break from the heat by traipsing through a river near Beit Shean. The group had a full schedule of activities in Jerusalem: a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance museum and nearby Mount Herzl military cemetery, exploring the narrow alleyways of Nachlaot in the city center, plunging into the tunnels that run alongside and under the Western Wall, and sifting through archaeological treasures at Emek Tzurim near the City of David. 
