Like in previous years, this Passover our communities all over the world enjoyed the holiday. Eating matza and other special foods, gathering for the seder, taking day trips and having family time. Now Pesach is over – the matzah is finished, the special Passover dishes put...
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Like every year, this Pesach our communities all over enjoyed the holiday. Eating special foods, taking day trips and having family time. After two years of Covid, people have been tentatively getting back to pre-pandemic activity level and no better time than the holidays to...
With the wide variety of communities that Shavei Israel works with, literally in every corner of the globe, there are numerous activities and programs as people prepare for the Passover holiday. As the festivities include much preparation, and there are many specific laws and details that...
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Matzah is an integral part of the Passover Seder everywhere. Although today this product is easily purchased even in the most distant Jewish communities of the globe, only a few decades ago, not everyone could afford to buy it in sufficient quantities for the holiday....
Lyon Fanai is one of the Bnei Menashe immigrants who, with Shavei Israel's help, made aliyah to Israel. He wrote a personal Passover "dayenu" to express his gratitude to Shavei Israel for making his life long journey possible. "That would have been enough...
Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community in India came together last week to bake matzah at the Shavei Israel center in Churachandpur, a district in the northeastern state of Manipur. "It’s reminiscent of Biblical times, and our forefathers’ hurrying to flee Egypt,” said one...
Lyon Fanai is one of the Bnei Menashe immigrants who, with Shavei Israel's help, made aliyah to Israel. He wrote a personal Passover "dayenu" to express his gratitude to Shavei Israel for making his life long journey possible. "That would have been enough...
