In approximately 722 BCE, the Assyrian king Sargon II conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and deported its ten tribes ...

Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru: to freeze in Japanese. Knesset: ...

JERUSALEM – Israel has decided to adopt about 6,000 Indians who claim Jewish ancestry, and plans to send a team of rabbinical judges to formally convert them to Orthodox Judaism (search), the Haaretz ...

The B’nei Menashe of Manipur and Mizoram believe they are the descendants of one of the 'lost tribes' of Israel. Around 250 ...

Around 250 members of the Bnei Menashe community from India’s northeast have arrived in Israel, becoming the first group from ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...

The Bnei Menashe are a community of around 10,000 people from the Kuki, Mizo and Chin tribes of northeast India who believe ...

New Delhi: Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has approved a decision to repatriate Jewish tribes living in India. The decision, approved on Sunday, November 23, approved a plan to repatriate ...

CHURACHANDPUR, India — In his tin-roofed workshop at the end of a dusty lane, K. Elisha Singson sometimes went without work for days, sitting in front of his idle sewing machine, ruing his prospects ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (JTA) The two Jews now living in Afghanistan are heirs to a 2,700-year-old Jewish presence that may include members of the tribe that makes up the ruling Taliban. Jews first came to ...