The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, visited the Jewish community in Lisbon. Shavei Israel's Portuguese emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas was among the dignitaries attending, along with the Israeli ambassador to Portugal and representatives of the three Jewish communities in Portugal....
Shavei Israel communities around the world are celebrating Hanukah this week with song and candles and sufganiot (Hanukah donuts). Here are two more videos....
We have two Hanukah videos from Belmonte, Portugal where Shavei Israel's emissary Rabbi Elisha Salas led the community in songs for the holiday....
Rabbi Eldad Villegas grew up in the city of Bello, Colombia believing he was Christian. By 19 years of age, he was the pastor of a church with 3,000 members. But something didn’t feel right. Were there Jewish roots in his past? After a trip...
Kivunim is a gap year program that brings pre-college American Jews to Jewish communities around the world to learn about their roots. The latest Kivunim cohort found themselves recently in Palermo where they met with Shavei Israel’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim in Sicily and...
Earlier this year, we reported on the emotional return to Judaism and re-marriage of Gila and Ariel Arditi, a Bnei Anousim couple originally from Colombia and now living in Israel. We now have put together a short video documentary that tells the Arditi's inspirational story...
We've previously shared with you news from the small but fervent Bnei Anousim community in El Salvador and its new Shavei Israel-sponsored emissary, Rabbi Daniel Touitou. Now the community itself has put together a video montage of pictures from recent events. We have it here....
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund and Rabbi Eliyahu Birnbaum, Shavei’s Educational Director, returned last week from a visit to Kehilat Yosef Chaim, a unique community of Bnei Anousim in Santiago, Chile. Here are some pictures. [nggallery id=214] And here are a couple of videos taken during the...
El shabat pasado, parashat Itró, tuvo lugar un espléndido seminario de Shavei Israel en Palma de Mallorca, en el cual participaron alrededor de 50 personas de todo España. El seminario contó con la participación especial del Rabino Moshé Ben Dahán de Madrid y finalizó con...
