Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has been confirmed as a presenter at December’s Limmud conference, to take place in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Now taking place in 40 communities worldwide, from Melbourne to Moscow, Limmud started in the U.K., which remains the largest of Limmud’s network...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund has won the second annual "Aliyah Award" in recognition of the thousands of Jews that Shavei Israel has brought to Israel from India, China, Iberia, South America, Poland and more. The ceremony last week at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem was attended...
Shavei Israel Chairman was interviewed on Australia's "Nothing Left" radio program. Nothing Left addresses issues of Israel advocacy and other topics of interest to the Jewish community. Previous guests have including David Hazony, Isi Liebler, Jonathan Tobin and David Bedein. On this episode, Michael Freund discusses Shavei Israel's history...
With a healthy does of excitement and anticipation, the 2016-17 school year in Israel has begun. For the Bnei Menashe immigrant children there are many unique challenges and therefore numerous creative solutions. In each Israeli community where Bnei Menashe live, Shavei Israel has worked together with the municipalities and...
All Jews are considered to be the children of the biblical Abraham and Sarah. A new exhibition at Beit Hatufsot, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, highlights some of the amazing diversity of those children. Entitled “The Children of Abraham and Sarah,” there are...
How do you dress for a bat mitzvah in Nigeria? Not much different than in Israel - with a fluffy pink dress and a crown! Gadi Bentley, who was Shavei Israel's first emissary to Africa's Igbo Jewish community (we wrote about him here and his successors, Noga Kohl and Michal...
Last week the Jewish world celebrated Lag B’Omer, the 33rd day of the period between Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, marked in Israel and around the Jewish world with special prayers, visits to the graves of holy men and, for the young (and young-at-heart), bonfires! Shavei...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund was profiled in the Swedish-language newspaper in Finland Kyrkpressen last week where he spoke about Shavei Israel's activities in general and with the Bnei Menashe in particular. Can you read or understand Swedish? Then check out the two page spread that appeared in...
We asked all the Shavei Israel emissaries to the communities we support around the world to share with us pictures of their Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) celebrations. How did we mark Israel’s 68th birthday this year? Here’s a visual tour: India Over 200 hundred Bnei Menashe descended on Shavei...
Israel celebrates its 68th birthday this evening as Yom HaZikaron – Memorial Day – transitions into Independence Day as the sun sets on the Mediterranean Sea. This is a very special day for Shavei Israel – after all, our name literally means “Israel Returns.” So it...
