Israel Returns Celebrates Hanukkah in Inquisition Prison
Blessed are you our God, King of the world, who performed miracles for our ancestors in their days, and in our days as well. (Blessing Over the Hanukkah Candles) This past Hanukah, joyous light filled a setting infamously associated for nearly 200 years with torture and murder. For the first time in Italian history, Israel […]
Chinese Jews Uncovering Their Roots
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there (Ezekiel 39:28) It’s called “Study of Torah Street” in Chinese and for hundreds of […]
Bnei Menashe-Israeli Couple Celebrate Oldest Son’s Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. (Ezra 3:1) He likes hamburgers and schnitzel; she prefers spicy curries. He’s a Sabra (native-born Israeli) who grew up on a small moshav (a cooperative agricultural village) near […]
Israeli Cabinet Unanimously Passes Resolution To Bring Bnei Menashe To Israel
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together; a great company shall they return hither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I […]
Hidden Spanish Jews
Watch a fascinating profile of Israel Returns‘ center for Jews of Spanish, Portugese and South American origin who are discovering their Jewish roots and heritage. Click here to learn more about Israel Returns.
15 Grandmothers and a Hidden Jewish Legacy: The Story of Genie Milgrom
Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity. Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: ‘Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips. (Hosea 14:2-3) The rabbi didn’t know what to […]
‘Israel Returns’ Helps Bnei Menashe Build Sukkot In India
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths; that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 23:42-43) Every year, the Bnei […]
ICEJ Donates One Million Shekels to Israel Returns
“Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and set up Mine ensign to the peoples, and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.” (Isaiah 49:22) One million shekels (approximately $300,000 USD) were pledged by the International Christian […]
‘Israel Returns’ Sweats It Out On Yom Kippur In India
Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; there shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:27) It is a heavenly irony that, no matter what the temperature on the […]
Ebenezer Ministries Celebrates Sukkot and Prays for Israel’s Ingathering
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. (Zechariah 14:16) Preparing for the day when the gentile nations will celebrate Sukkot […]
