Amishav
| Motto | Find Our Lost Brethren |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2002 |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Headquarters | Jerusalem, Israel |
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Region served
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Worldwide |
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Chairman
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Michael Freund |
| Website | www.shavei.org |
Shavei Israel (Hebrew: שבי ישראל, Returners of Israel) is an Israeli-based Jewish organization that reaches out to Israelites around the world who are descendants of Jews in order to strengthen their connection with Israel and the Jewish people. Founded by Michael Freund in 2002, Shavei Israel locates lost Jews and hidden Jewish communities and assists them with returning to their roots and, sometimes, with aliyah. The organization’s team is composed of academics, educators and rabbis.
The Shavei Israel organization was founded to help people whose ancestors had become separated from Judaism (including alleged descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, crypto-Jews, hidden Jews, and Jewish forcibly assimilated under Communist rule,) reconnect with the Jewish people, and in the second decade of this century also became active in helping individuals and groups of converts become part of the mainstream Jewish and Israeli communities. Shavei Israel sponsors rabbis and teachers to work with groups of "lost Jews," provide them the Jewish education and assist them in aliyah if they choose. Its affiliated rabbis are posted in Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, and Sevilla in Spain; Belmonte in northern Portugal, San Nicandro in southern Italy, Brazil, Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland; and in Mizoram and Manipur, in North-East India. In December 2010, Rabbi Shlomo Zelig Avrasin was sent to work with the Subbotnik Jewish communities in Russia, particularly Vysoky.
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