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Shavei Israel profile
Yehudit Jaksa - the first dental hygienist from Peru's "Bnei Moshe" community
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Yehudit Jaksa has just finished her final exam to become a dental hygienist as she arrives for our interview. She is nevertheless poised, confident and ready to chat. Her story is a remarkable one, leading her from a life as a lonely teenager in Lima, Peru, keeping kosher and celebrating Shabbat nearly entirely on her own, to her status today as an integrated Israeli, experiencing Judaism "naturally" in the Jewish homeland, as she so aptly puts it.
Click here to read more about Yehudit's background and her special aliyah story.
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VIDEO: Rabbi Gin teaches Bnei Menashe in Manipur, India
Our seminar for the Bnei Menashe in India is continuing. Here is a short video we've prepared with pictures of Rabbi Yehuda Gin's classes in Shavei Israel's Beith Shalom community hall, located in the central Bnei Menashe community of Churachandpur, Manipur.
Click here to watch the video montage.
Click here to see the pictures.
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