Bnei Menashe celebrations - including candle lighting in Manipur and a holiday-inspired seminar in Mizoram - are in the news this week. Here's one report: from the San Diego Jewish World. "We pray that this will be the last Hanukkah they celebrate in India," said...
Hanukah is here and we're happy to light up your day with energetic video from the Shavei Israel Bnei Menashe center in Churachandpur, India. Bnei Menashe youth sing traditional Hanukah songs - in Hebrew and English - from the heart of Manipur....
You'll want to just watch this clip again and again! New Bnei Menashe immigrants singing Chavang kolni, a song about "the perfect city of Zion - Jerusalem" in their native language Kuki and dancing with amazing joy and energy on the first night of their...
Get your handkerchiefs out, because you’re going to need something to contain the emotion as you watch these videos. Families who haven’t seen each other in years break down in tears while whoops and cheers can be heard in the background by the elated new...
Last week was h-u-g-e for the Bnei Menashe. 162 new immigrants from India landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in two separate flights. We already shared pictures from the first flight of #OperationMenashe on Tuesday. But Thursday’s flight was even more emotional, with multiple reunions of families...
In the midst of the excitement over the new arrivals from Manipur, tragedy struck the Bnei Menashe community. On Friday, just a day after the second of two aliyah flights from India landed in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist drove his car into community member Even...
Israel National News's Yoni Kempinski covered the arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport of the first flight for November's #OperationMenashe. He interviewed Chen and Yaakov, who haven't seen Chen's sister and Yaakov's mother for many years. They tell Yoni what their life has been life since making...
After many, many hours of traveling, exhaustion didn't stop the 82 Bnei Menashe who immigrated to Israel from India this Tuesday from celebrating full force. We have emotional video of the new olim as they sing and dance their way from the plane to the...
They're here! The first of two flights of Bnei Menashe immigrants arrived at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday night. Eight-two members of the Bnei Menashe community arrived after a grueling trip of several days of planes, trains and automobiles, from their former homes in the...
Students at Jagiellonia University in Krakow received a special lecture on Jewish Law from Shavei Israel’s emissary to the city, Rabbi Avi Baumol. 83 people attended the lecture, which took place at a school, where prior to World War II, 31 percent of the students...
