Bnei Menashe

Jerusalem: Hundreds of Kilogrammes of 'matzah' (unleavened bread) and copies of 'Hagaddah' --text recounting the Jewish people's Exodus from Egypt-- with explanatory notes in the Mizo and Thadou-Kuki languages have been despatched to India for the Bnei Menashe community to celebrate Passover.
For the first time, members of a Lost Tribe of Israel in northeastern India will soon be able to study the entire Torah in their native tongue.  Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based group which assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people, last week published a translation of Sefer Shemot (the Book of Exodus) into Mizo, one of the main languages spoken by the Bnei Menashe living in Mizoram, India.

A community center was opened in Israel for a group from northeastern India that says it's descended from one of the biblical Lost Tribes. The center for B'nei Menashe immigrants was inaugurated recently in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and has begun offering...

The National Post of Canada Source: CanWest News Service             KIRYAT ARBA, West Bank - When a rabbinical court decided that the Bnei Menashe of India were descendants of one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel, Indian newspapers reported many in the northern community wept tears of joy.
A community center intended specifically for Bnei Menashe immigrants has been formally inaugurated in Kiryat Arba. The center is the first of it's kind in Israel.   Offering an array of classes, lectures and other activities for the Bnei Menashe community, the community center is a joint project of the Kiryat Arba Local Council and Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), a Jerusalem-based group that assists “lost Jews” seeking to return to the Jewish people.
The Washington Times CHURACHANDPUR, India — In his tin-roofed workshop at the end of a dusty lane, K. Elisha Singson sometimes went without work for days, sitting in front of his idle sewing machine, ruing his prospects and those of his offspring.  Mr. Singson is a community leader of the Bnei Menashe (children of Menasseh) tribe, which was recognized recently as one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. 
Maariv On-Line As Israelis are busy organizing ceremonies this week to mark Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day), members of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India are also preparing to commemorate Israel’s fallen soldiers and celebrate the country’s independence.
AP Writer All together, they dip their middle fingers into plastic cups of grape juice, calling out in Hebrew the names of the 10 plagues they believe their God sent to curse the ancient Egyptians. Plastic Israeli flags and photographs of Jerusalem adorn the chipboard walls. Saturday's feast could have been a celebration of Passover anywhere in the Jewish world, but this is no ordinary celebration and these are no ordinary Jews.
PTI, Aizawl: Moving across Aizwal, Israel store and Zion Street are common sights and a newcomer to the state capital could be excused if he momentarily wonders he is in any part of Israel.For many among thousands of living in Mizoram and Manipur, Israel is the promised land and believe they are the lost tribes of Israel. They were overjoyed when the sephardic chief Rabbi, Mr Shlomo Amar reportedly recognised them as ‘descendants of Israel’.
The Jerusalem Post "The redemption of Bnei Menashe is just a part of the larger process of the redemption of the entire Jewish people," Rabbi Yehuda Gin of Kiryat Arba said Tuesday.   Gin, probably the first Bnei Menashe to become a rabbi, was reacting to Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's decision on Friday to allow the mass conversion, according to Orthodox Jewish criteria, of a group of 6,000 to 7,000 Indians who are thought to be the descendants of the lost tribe of Menashe.   
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