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,"...
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...
“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...
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...
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...