Writer, researcher and dear friend of Shavei Israel, Genie Milgrom met with Pope Francis at the Vatican's private library this week. The private audience was organized by Rabbi Avi and Nehama Tawil, leaders of the European Jewish Community Center in Brussels. She was accompanied by...
It is customary to read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot. In that book, Ruth says to Naomi (1:16): “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.” On Shavuot...
The Bnei Sefarad community in Cuba is an emerging Jewish community that consists of descendants of Sephardic and Portuguese 'Anousim' (those who were forcibly converted in the time of the Inquisition) and have gone through a deep process of reconnecting with the Jewish roots of...
Lag Ba’omer is a minor holiday that occurs on the 33rd day of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot. A break from the semi-mourning of the Omer, key aspects of Lag Ba’omer include holding Jewish weddings (it’s the one day during the...
[caption id="attachment_170630" align="alignleft" width="277"] Rav Asher with his wife Margalit[/caption] Colombian-born Rabbi Asher Abarbanel has been our much-loved representative in Cali, Colombia. Recently, Rav Asher took a trip to our Beit Moshe community in Mexico City. As the situation is difficult in Colombia, he has been...
Yom Ha'atzmaut is Israel's national Independence Day commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. The day is marked by official and unofficial ceremonies and observances throughout Israel and the Jewish world. Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day is always...
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...
The Beith Hillel community located in Bogota, Colombia had a very nice surprise last month and their happiness was doubled when Rabbi Shimon Yechua, emissary of Shavei Israel in Colombia, brought a new Torah scroll from the United States to the synagogue, a donation from...
We recently wrote about the Toledo to Jerusalem Exhibition, where we featured our beloved Abraham Kron the artist and his son Haym Hadar Eliahu. But there's so much more to this impressive story, of which we were happy to be a part. Abraham Kron was born...
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vpth3xZHCTM?feature=share This fun video short by Unpacked, the website that helps people uncover the complex Jewish world, introduces our own Chaya Castillo, and her husband Eliav Riera, who are both descended from 'crypto Jews' who were forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition.Their families fled...
