Every day through Nissan 13, we recite the verses describing the offerings made by the nesi'im ('princes') of the 12 tribes ...

In 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths of South ...

Shortly before dying, our father Jacob gathered his twelve sons around his death-bed and gave them a tantalisingly brief glimpse into the future. To each son he gave some cryptic prophecy concerning ...

in Parshat Pinḣas it says: (Numbers 26:54) “To the large [tribe] you shall give a larger inheritance and to a smaller [tribe] you shall give a smaller inheritance, each person shall be given an ...

One of the most fascinating historic and halakhic issues to come to life in our generation is the attempt to identify the lost ten tribes, descending from the Kingdom of Israel. Unity of the nation ...

Discover the meaning behind "Operation Roaring Lion." As Israel and the US launch strikes on Iran, we explore the deep ...

Proponents of the theory that the Celts are descended from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, the tribe of Dan, in historical essays and elsewhere point to various parallels between Irish and ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...