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Bnei Menashe tribe in India prepares for Passover by baking traditional Matzah

Members of the Bnei Menashe tribe in Northeast India prepare for Passover, baking matzah and observing traditional rituals, hoping to return to their ancestral land, Israel.

 Community members actively engaging in matzah baking at the Shavei Israel community center located in Churachandpur, Manipur, and Aizawl, Mizoram. (18/4/2024)
 Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community prepare to celebrate the Sukkot holiday in Shavei Israel's relief center amid ethnic tensions in their local villages in India's northern state of Manipur.

Bnei Menashe Indian Jews celebrate Sukkot despite ethnic unrest

 Rabbi Yitzhak Abud (left) and Rabbi Michael Freund (right).

Jerusalem nonprofit hosts candle lighting in Palace of the Inquisition in Mexico

 India's Bnei Menashe celebrate Sukkot

India's Bnei Menashe Jews to celebrate Sukkot


Tamano-Shata to push ahead with aliyah of 722 Bnei Menashe Jews

The first group is currently expected to arrive after the conclusion of the High Holy Days, which ends around the middle of October.

PNINA TAMANO-SHATA, newly appointed aliyah and integration minister and the first Ethopia-born minister in the Israeli government

From Beijing to Jerusalem - Home among her people

Jews are believed to have settled in Kaifeng during the eighth century, or perhaps even earlier.

Abigail Windberg

Shavei Israel hosts webinar with Nigeria's Igbo Jews

Dozens of members of the Igbo Jewish community participated in the seminar, which focused on Jewish belief and practice, religious items and other guidance and support.

The wedding of Gershon ben Avraham to Gila bat Sarah in Ogidi, Nigeria

Jewish wedding celebrated in 1500 year-old synagogue in Italy

Jews were expelled from Southern Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. Some formally converted to Christianity and continued to practice Judaism in secret.

Wedding in Bova Marina (Calabria, Italy)

The essence of Shavuot in Jerusalem, 1964

Who knew if the Wall could ever be visited by Jewish people?

Rita Geffen sits on the steps leading up to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in 1971

40 rabbis: Jews shouldn't rent, sell homes to gentiles

Rabbis say measure will prevent intermarriage; MK Horowitz: "racist" municipal rabbis should be fired, investigated for incitement.

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