While Hanukkah is approaching, Shavei Israel communities all over the world are getting ready for this beautiful holiday. The first ones to share their experience were communities of Chile and Colombia. In Chile, people gather together for an inspirational day of studying the history of Hanukkah,...
Laura Ben David, Shavei’s director of marketing and new media, visited North American Jewish communities as part of her volunteer work for OTS Amiel Bakehila under the sponsorship of Israel’s Ministry of the Diaspora. Laura used this opportunity to tell the story of lost and...
Shosh Chovav, a Shavei Israel volunteer, recently traveled to Lodz, Poland, to teach Hebrew and work with a local Jewish community. She's written about her experience before, but here she describes her personal experience and impressions....
As every year, we greatly anticipate the flood of photos we will receive as our communities around the world begin their Sukkot preparations. Building their unique 'sukkahs' (temporary dwellings or huts that are decorated and used for the Sukkot holiday) and preparing their four 'species'...
Laura Ben David, Shavei's director of marketing and new media, visited a number of Scandinavian Jewish communities as part of her volunteer work for OTS Amiel Bakehila under the sponsorship of Israel's Ministry of the Diaspora. In her most recent travels to Scandinavia, she had...
After a break of nearly 50 years, the community of Piazzo, in the province of Biella, celebrated the wedding of Alberto Calo and Angela Ferrari Calo in a local synagogue. The previous Jewish wedding ceremony in Biella was conducted in 1969 by Rabbi Sergio Sierra...
Gan Matanel includes both studies and recreational activities. The children learn letters, counting, drawing, songs and many other skills required by standard Polish kindergartens. ...
Among the future leaders of the Jewish people are the several hundred attendees of the annual BBYO International Kallah seminar that takes place in a pastoral setting in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania. The program goes beyond the traditional classroom setting and includes interactive sessions...
What a pleasure to celebrate with Pinchas and Linor, a wedding they waited five long years for, until after they'd both made aliyah to Israel. Our own Laura Ben-David, a guest at the wedding, took these photos of the fairy-tale event....
Yishai Salas from Sderot, the son of Rabbi Elisha Salas, Shavei Israel emissary in Spain and Portugal, struggles daily with kite terror. Salas, who has been working as a fireman in his city for five years, participated in extinguishing dozens of recent fires. "I feel...
