A group of people living in India claims to be Israel’s long-lost tribe of Manasseh. After centuries of displacement, they finally have their chance to migrate back to Israel and eventually claim ...

Geography also plays a role. Accra sits on the historic Gold Coast, making centuries of interaction with traders – including ...

Who are the Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from India that has been immigrating to Israel? Judy Maltz of Ha'aretz has covered the community for more than a decade.

Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...

India's Bnei Menashe believe they are one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. A new Israeli immigration scheme plans to resettle ...

(RNS) — Last year, Jeremiah Hnamte closed the family’s manufacturing business in the city of Aizawl, in northeastern India. The family moved into a rented apartment and sold their land and possessions ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel reportedly has decided to adopt about 6,000 Indians who claim Jewish ancestry as descendants of the lost tribe of Manasseh, and plans to send a team of rabbinical judges to ...

From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that ...

which traces the legend of the lost tribes who, according to ancient scriptures were banished from the Kingdom of Israel after it fell to the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE. On this journey, in ...