Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund will be flying to India at the beginning of February – this time not to visit the Bnei Menashe in their villages, but to speak about the community at a conference on “The Judeo-Christian Heritage of the West Coast of...
Forty more Bnei Menashe made aliyah from the Indian state of Mizoram on Thursday, January 23, 2014. This followed 40 the week before, with a final group of 40 from Mizoram arriving next Thursday, January 30, 2014, for a total of 120 new immigrants in...
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, another 40 Bnei Menashe made aliyah from the Indian state of Mizoram. They will be followed by another 40 the following week on January 23, and 40 more on January 30. That's a total of 120 new immigrants who...
A group of 40 Bnei Menashe arrived on Aliyah today from India, marking the second time in the last three weeks that a group from this Lost Tribe of Israel has moved here. Arutz 7 has the story....
Award-winning professional photographer Gali Tibbon, who has focused her career on documenting groups from far flung communities around the world, accompanied Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund and 38 Bnei Menashe on their journey from India to Israel on December 26, 2013. We present a selection...
It was after 3:00 a.m. on Thursday of last week, in the small airport outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, and the group of 38 travelers was exhausted. Young and old, these members of the Bnei Menashe community, which traces its descent to a lost tribe of...
Elyashiv Khupchawng recalls only too well the day he chose to publicly embrace his Bnei Menashe Jewish heritage. He was a teenager and “all of my friends simply walked away from me,” he says, matter-of-factly, but with the pain clearly still burning just slightly under...
The first group of Bnei Menashe from Mizoram have arrived! 38 Bnei Menashe men, women and children flew from Mizoram to New Delhi, India and then on to Israel on Thursday, December 26, 2013. Here is our exclusive photo gallery of pictures from each stop...
A total of 38 Indian citizens from the Bnei Menashe community made aliyah Thursday, the first cohort to arrive since the Knesset approved another wave of immigration for the group. The Jerusalem Post was at Ben-Gurion Airport and filed this report....
