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Lost Tribes

Over 100 Bnei Menashe have taken shelter in a synagogue in Mizoram amid sectarian violence. (Shavei Israel via JTA)
June 19, 2023, 5:33 am
India’s Bnei Menashe community in crisis as Manipur rocked by ethnic violence
NGO Shavei Israel says 1 Jewish victim has been killed, over 1,000 displaced, and 2 synagogues burned as houses and businesses of the minority Kuki tribe are razed
By Jordyn Haime
Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2017, 5:08 pm
Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews
Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire
By Melanie Lidman
Some of the Malagasy Jews-by-choice in Madagascar see the practice of Judaism as a return to their roots and an overthrowing of the last vestiges of colonialism. (Deborah Josefson)
June 6, 2016, 2:25 am
In remote Madagascar, a new community chooses to be Jewish
After years of self-study and correspondence with rabbis in Israel, 121 Malagasies converted to Judaism, pray in Sephardic-accented Hebrew and strictly observe Sabbath and holidays
By Deborah Josefson
Rabbi Michael Freund (right) stands next to Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin (center), while the latter holds one of several young immigrants who arrived on a group flight, June 18, 2015. (Courtesy Ze'ev Elkin's office)
June 19, 2015, 1:55 am
3,000th Bnei Menashe touches down in Israel
78 new arrivals to live in the Golan, part of the land allocated to tribe of Menashe in the Bible
By Gedalyah Reback
Bnei Menashe immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport from India in 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 20, 2012, 8:38 pm
Members of a ‘lost tribe’ emigrate to Israel
Some 50 Jews from the Bnei Menashe community in India depart for the Promised Land
Panorama of Bello, Columbia (photo credit: CC BY Joselph22/Wikipedia)
From the WebNovember 25, 2012, 7:53 am
Colombian evangelical Christians convert to Judaism, embracing hidden past
Washington Post: A new community of Jews has sprung up in a corner of South America, where genetic testing reveals 14 percent of males are related to Kohanim
The co-founders of Lost Tribes Brew hope the company will soon go national. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Lost Tribes Brew via JTA)
October 21, 2012, 1:06 am
Lost Tribes Brew hopes to help you imbibe, biblically
New York beer company gathers ancient recipes using thoroughly modern means
By Chavie Lieber
The rabbi of the Nigerian Ibo community recites a blessing in a Tel Aviv sukka. The Ibo tribe considers itself descendants of Ephraim (one of the ten lost tribes). (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash9)
August 19, 2012, 9:32 am
How a film on Africa’s ‘lost’ Jewish tribes rekindled its maker’s own Jewish identity
Laurence Gavron splits her time between France, Israel and Africa — where, along with focusing her lens on ‘Jewish’ tribes, she’s now also begun a unique political career in Muslim-dominated Senegal
By Rina Bassist
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