Last month, an unprecedented congress took place in Portugal: three days of academic conferences, led by renowned historians, about the Jewish past in Portugal. The event took place in Braganza, a Portuguese city with a great Jewish past. Captain Arthur Barros Bastos, known as the "Portuguese...
“This is an absolutely exceptional book that appears at an extremely important juncture in history,” Rabbi Sholom Gold said this week at the OU Israel Center in Jerusalem. He was introducing the new book by Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, “A Drop in the Ocean:...
This week’s “Israel Uncensored” program on the Land of Israel radio network featured an interview with Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund speaking about his new book, A Drop in the Ocean: A Daily Dose of Eretz Yisrael. “I hope the it will inspire people to...
Shavei Israel is excited to announce that Founder and Chairman Michael Freund has teamed up with Rabbi Moshe Lichtman to write “A Drop in the Ocean: A Daily Dose of Eretz Yisrael.” The book is organized like a “Daf Yomi” – the worldwide daily Talmud...
Shavei Israel Chairman spoke to Israel Radio - IBA News about his recent trip to Cuba where he learned more about the contemporary Jewish community on the island as well as its Bnei Anousim roots. Approximately one thousand Jews live in Cuba today, but many...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund appeared on the Nachum Segal Radio Network. He spoke to Allison Josephs who hosts the "Jew in the City" program on the origins of Shavei Israel, its current activities around the world, and where the organization is headed....
The Jewish holiday of Purim is coming next week and Shavei Israel is once again offering its popular Spanish-language guide to Purim for the Bnei Anousim community. The e-version is available to download for free from our website....
"After 2,700 years we have the opportunity to bring the Bnei Menashe back to our people and to our land. So why do so many of you sit on the sidelines and not get involved?" Those were the words of Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund is not the only staff member to be traveling overseas to talk all things Shavei in December. While Michael is heading to the U.K. to speak at Limmud U.K., Shavei Israel’s director of marketing Laura Ben-David is heading even further west...
The timing wasn’t intentional but there is a certain prescience to the fact that on the very day of this week’s contentious U.S. elections, Israel celebrated its first ever “Aliyah Day,” emphasizing unity and a shared sense of purpose. The brand new holiday on the Israeli...
