It is a ‘homecoming’ for around 240 Indians as they landed in the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Thursday. That is because they are believed to be the descendants of a biblical Jewish tribe. The Bnei ...

The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have fascinated historians, theologians, and explorers for centuries. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, these tribes were said to ...

The B’nei Menashe believe they are the descendants of Manasseh, a tribal patriarch from thousands of years ago. Evidence is thin, but Israel is welcoming them “home.” People from B’nei Menashe ...

NEW DELHI – A journey that spans centuries, continents, and contested memory reached a new chapter on April 23, when more than 250 members of the Bnei Menashe community from India landed at Ben Gurion ...

(RNS) — Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to ...