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,"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...