KIRYAT ARBA, WEST BANK — When Tzvi Khaute came six years ago from a remote corner of India, claiming to be of the lost Jewish tribe of Menashe, Israeli authorities didn't buy it. Things may be ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a lost biblical Jewish tribe emigrated to Israel on Monday from their village in northeastern India, celebrating their arrival after ...
Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...
Beit El (in red circle) was in the territory given to the Tribe of Ephraim. Rabbenu Bachya asks as follows in this week’s parsha: Why did God send twelve scouts and not a smaller number like the two ...
My last year of Hebrew school began like all the others: with an assembly in my Long Island synagogue’s social hall. No one expected Barbie to show up. But this year was different. Ahead of our b’nai ...