Prime Minister Modi has a lot on his plate during his official visit to Israel, but he has a special event planned for when he comes. On July 5, he will meet the Indian diaspora in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel’s money. It will be mostly Indian Jews, who make up about 85,000 of…
There are 899 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram who are members of the “lost” Bnei Menashe tribe who can now live and work in the Jewish state. The cabinet voted last week to allow the Indian Bnei Menashe community to move to Israel in groups. The first group is expected to arrive at the…
More than 250 Jews from the Bnei Menashe community in northern India, including infants and the elderly, arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday to begin a new life in Israel. One hundred and fifty of them are couples, twenty-four are singles, and four are newborns. There are 50 families, 24 singles, four children under…
In Manipur, India, a group of people called the Bnei Menashe (named after Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi who led a failed mission to rescue them) says they are descendants of Jews who were banished from ancient Israel and had to travel to India over 1,200 years ago. A tribe of Jews said to have…
A group of Kukis wants to travel to Israel, claiming to be the Bnei Menashe, one of Israel’s ten lost tribes. They won’t be able to do so unless they formally accept Judaism. Prafulla Das explores the perplexing situation of people split between a tumultuous past and an uncertain future. Avihu Singsit, a 70-year-old native…
Imphal: On December 15, 250 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram arrived in Israel as part of the Bnei Menashe group. After a two-and-a-half-year wait, they became the first to arrive in the Jewish state. The Bnei Menashe are thought to be descendants of the Manasseh tribe, one of Israel’s ten lost tribes who were…
THE NATION’S CAPITAL: Because their relatives in Delhi fell ill with a disease called Covid and were kept in quarantine, more than 100 Jews from Manipur have had to postpone their plans to move to Israel. “It’s a fantastic opportunity,” 40-year-old Soizagin told the Times of India as he prepared to abandon his Indian citizenship….
Thousands of Bnei Menashe began returning to their ancestral country in northeast India in the 1980s. Approximately 6,000 more people are on their way to join them. Rut, 28, Dina, 21, and Avigail, 13, three Lhanghal sisters from northeast India, moved to Israel on January 3, the place their forefathers were forced to flee 27…
“I’ve been quietly crying for months whenever the prospect of leaving my home and family occurred to me. The desire to return to the sacred place, however, is too strong.” One of the 228 Jews who left Manipur on Sunday to permanently reside in Israel is Nemchin Touthang, a 57-year-old Jew from the Churachandpur area….
According to a representative from the Covid care center, they are set to fly to Israel on Thursday. Bnei Menashe Jews are thought to be descendants of the Manasseh tribe, one of Israel’s ten lost tribes. According to sources, the community currently numbers roughly 6,000 people in Manipur and Mizoram. Members of this group in…