Shavei Israel

17/01/2025

Shabbat shalom to our friends and supporters throughout the world!

16/01/2025

Our students at the Machon Milton and Machon Miriam conversion courses received their certificates indicating the successful completion of all the necessary requirements for the conversion courses! Mazal tov!! ✡️

At the end of the calendar year, our students at the Machon Milton and Machon Miriam conversion courses received their certificates indicating the successful completion of all the necessary requirements for the conversion courses in these English and Spanish language Judaism conversion courses.

06/01/2025

There are very few practicing Jews left in Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. And those who do remain, hope to soon move to Israel. Read how one of Tamil Nadu's last Jewish families keep the flame alive.

Every evening for the eight days of Chanukah, Anne Sheela Samuel and her daughter Rivka lit the candles of the menorah. "My son and elder daughter are lighting them in Israel, but our hearts unite when we gaze at the flame," says Anne. Anne is one of the very few practicing Jews in Tamil Nadu as

29/12/2024

Chanukah party at the Hovevei Zion Bnei Menashe community in Aizawl, Mizoram.

29/12/2024

Chanukah Candle Lighting Ceremony at the Israel Police Station, Jerusalem, with new Bnei Menashe police officers. 🕎🇮🇱

28/12/2024

Three-year-old Aviv lights the menorah with his mom on the 4th night of Chanukah. 🕎

Aviv is from the Hovevei Zion Bnei Menashe community in Aizawl, Mizoram, in northeast India.

27/12/2024

Happy Chanukah from Tarapoto, Perú!

26/12/2024

Sweet Bnei Menashe family in Siphir, Mizoram, in northeast India, singing ‘Hanerot Hallalu’ (‘These Candles’) after lighting the Chanukah menorah.

26/12/2024

Basking in the glow of the Chanukah candles 🕯️

Students of Machon Miriam, Kibbutz Migdal Oz

25/12/2024

Bnei Menashe in India light their beautiful, traditional menorahs on the first night of Chanukah.

May they merit to celebrate next Chanukah in Israel!

Pictured: Beth Shalom, Gamgiphai, Manipur

16/12/2024

For the past year and a half, hundreds of Bnei Menashe in northeast India have been displaced due to ethnic fighting. As many as 30 families share living space in difficult conditions, as they wait indefinitely for their turn to be brought on aliyah to Israel.

Hear the moving story of a young Bnei Menashe woman in a relief camp:

For the past year and a half, hundreds of Bnei Menashe in northeast India have been displaced due to ethnic fighting. As many as 30 families share living space in difficult conditions, as they wait indefinitely for their turn to be brought on aliyah to Israel. Hear the moving story of Avigail K

11/12/2024

Today marked 30 days since Staff Sergeant Gary Lalhruaikima Zolat z”l, a soldier from the Bnei Menashe community, was killed in Gaza. An emotional memorial was held at the Afula Military Cemetery. People came from all over the country to pay their respects. Not just Bnei Menashe; there many Israelis and soldiers there. A real tribute to the person that Gary was. 

May his memory be eternally blessed, and may we be worthy of his sacrifice. 🙏🏻🇮🇱