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Group claiming lineage to Lost Tribes of Israel set to make aliyah after undergoing conversion in Nepal by teams from Rabbinical Court Some 7,200 members of Bnei Menashe ("Children of Menasseh"), a group of people from north-eastern India who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, will make aliyah after converting to Judaism in Nepal.   According to a tradition that has been passed down for generations, the members of Bnei Menashe identify themselves as descendants of the Menashe tribe – one of the 10 tribes that were exiled from the Land of Israel at the end of the First Temple period.   
18 January, 2010
For Miquel Segura of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, the journey home took more than 500 years. Last month, at a moving ceremony in Manhattan, the 65-year-old journalist and political commentator completed his return to the Jewish people, closing a circle dating back to the 14th century. Segura is from the Chueta community, as descendants of Mallorcan Jews forcibly converted to Christianity more than five centuries ago are known.  
22 December, 2009

In October, tens of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Manhattan, as they do each year, to celebrate the legacy of...

08 November, 2009
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