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April 5, 2017, 1:20 am
10 Indian-Jewish ‘lost tribe’ couples remarried in Israel
Group ceremony is part of formal conversion to Judaism for members of Bnei Menashe, believed descended from biblical Manasseh
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JTA
February 14, 2017, 5:35 am
‘After 27 centuries of exile,’ 102 Indian Bnei Menashe head to Israel
Members of ‘lost tribe,’ to arrive Tuesday and Thursday, will join community in Nazareth Illit
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Josefin Dolsten
December 30, 2016, 6:06 am
Bnei Menashe Indians celebrate far-flung Hanukkah
Members of ‘lost’ community in northeastern state of Manipur gather to make sufganiyot, light candles
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JTA
September 25, 2016, 8:25 am
Chinese authorities crack down on tiny Jewish community
Study center serving Kaifeng’s 1,000 Jews closed by authorities, public events canceled, report says
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ToI Staff
February 29, 2016, 8:21 pm
5 Chinese women immigrate to Israel, plan conversion
Members of Kaifeng community, believed to be founded by 8th- or 9th-century Jewish traders, to undertake formal process to become Jews
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Stuart Winer
January 5, 2016, 3:11 am
Indian quake rattles ‘lost tribe’ of Bnei Menashe Jews
Tremor of 6.7 magnitude that killed nine also causes damage to homes, property of Jewish community in Manipur
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Stuart Winer
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
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Gedalyah Reback
April 2, 2015, 6:46 am
Bnei Menashe Seder in India reflects hopes of aliya
Community that claims descent from ancient Israelite tribe already has thousands of members in Israel
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ToI Staff
June 26, 2014, 5:22 am
Is new contentious Krakow chief rabbi the result of power struggle?
Amid allegations of real estate interests and exclusive membership policies, the community’s ruling family remains silent
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
April 13, 2014, 6:29 am
Iberia’s former Jewish towns jostle for afiko-money
Passover-themed celebrations are proving tourist draws in Iberian locales with no Jewish populations
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
April 8, 2014, 1:19 pm
Chinese descendants of Jews return to roots with seder
Kaifeng, a once thriving outpost of Jewish trading families, to hold communal Passover meal
By
Gavriel Fiske
October 20, 2013, 6:10 am
‘Lost’ Indian Jews come to Israel despite doubts
The Bnei Menashe community, whose rituals have only glancing similarity to Judaism, has been permitted to make aliya en masse
By
Ben Sales
July 22, 2013, 1:40 pm
Portuguese town receives Torah scroll, Jewish learning center
None of Trancoso’s 5,000 residents is Jewish; before the expulsion, half the town’s population was
July 12, 2013, 8:16 pm
Portugal becomes 2nd country, after Israel, with a Jewish law of return
500 years after the expulsion of its community, Lisbon’s new legislation corrects a moral wrong, albeit with some ‘economic considerations as well’
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Cnaan Liphshiz
May 30, 2013, 5:58 pm
‘Lost’ Polish Jew, 64, marks bar mitzvah at Western Wall
Mariusz Aoflko, who grew up Catholic, discovered his heritage from his dying mother 13 years ago
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Lazar Berman
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