CHURACHANDPUR, INDIA (Reuters) – Abel and Sharon Hangsingh, along with their children and grandkids, waited for the sun to set over their small Buelah Lane colony’s rusted steel roofs. As is customary in the far northeastern states, the sun sets early. They lit two white candles and assembled in front of the flickering light on…
Members of the Bnei Menashe tribe, who have been recognized by Israel as descendants of vanished tribes, are planning a reunion with their ancestors. After a visa prohibition was overturned, a “lost” Jewish tribe in India waits expectantly for a journey to Israel. In India’s northeastern provinces of Mizoram and Manipur, the Bnei Menashe (sons…
“India is not our country,” says Haniel Reuben, 72, one of the older members of a small clan claiming descent from the Manasseh, one of Israel’s historical “lost tribes” deported by Assyrian conquerors in 720 BC. A group of men prays in a synagogue in northeast India for the chance to “return home” to a…
Geula Tautang, 19, raced frantically around the Ben Gurion airport arrivals area on Monday afternoon, her gaze fixed on the automatic sliding doors. Geula hadn’t seen her mother in almost six years, and she was about to walk through those doors. The Tautang family is from the Bnei Menashe, a tribe of nearly 9,000 people…
NEW DELHI: Covid-19 put a stop to over a hundred Bnei Menashe Jews from Manipur traveling to Israel. 40 of them tested positive for Covid on Monday, just hours before leaving their Karol Bagh hotel for Indira Gandhi International Airport. They are currently residing in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee’s Guru Tegh Bahadur Covid…
In east India in the States of Manipur and Mizoram exists a community which sees itself as descendants of the Menashe Tribe (which is one of the 10 lost tribes). These people have Chinese appearance and they claim that after their forefathers were exiled and enslaved by the Assyrians they somehow escaped from slavery and…
Jerusalem: A group of Bnei Menashe Jews from Manipur moved to the Jewish state, where they were reunited with an Indian couple who had been apart for more than seven years since their engagement. She had to wait for more than seven years to see him again because the government under then Prime Minister Ehud…