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[caption id="attachment_6051" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A hypothetical picture of Pathans at the Western Wall from Dr. Navras Aafreedi's website"][/caption] In the village of Malihabad, 25 kilometers from the Indian city of Lucknow, 650 Pathans claim to be descendents of the lost tribe of Ephraim, expelled...

[caption id="attachment_5445" align="alignleft" width="123" caption="Yehoshua Yacobi"][/caption] The Bnei Ephraim is a small community in rural India that claims to be the descendants of the biblical tribe of Ephraim, exiled from the land of Israel nearly 3,000 years ago. While their history is far from clear-cut, at...

[caption id="attachment_6046" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Tzadok Yacobi at the Western Wall in Jerusalem"][/caption] The Bnei Ephraim is a small community in rural India that claims to be the descendants of the biblical tribe of Ephraim, exiled from the land of Israel nearly 3,000 years ago....

The Donmeh is a Jewish community in Turkey numbering several thousand people who are descendants of the followers of the false messiah Shabtai Zvi. One of the group's members recently returned to Judaism in a ceremony in New York....

The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2011 Recently, at a small synagogue in New Jersey, a Jewish tragedy more than three centuries old came to an abrupt and long-awaited end. Standing before a rabbinical court, a “hidden Jew” from Turkey closed an historical circle by emerging from the...

The Jerusalem Post Recently, at a small synagogue in New Jersey, a Jewish tragedy more than three centuries old came to an abrupt and long-awaited end. Standing before a rabbinical court, a “hidden Jew” from Turkey closed an historical circle by emerging from the shadows of the past and formally returning to the Jewish people. The young man in question, who now goes by his Hebrew name of Ari, is a member of the Donmeh, a community numbering several thousand people who are descendants of the followers of the false messiah Shabbetai Zvi.
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