Bnei menashe

Israel launches gov't initiative to bring home, reunite Bnei Menashe community

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Under the government-led effort, Bnei Menashe families receive comprehensive support to facilitate their integration, with guidance from social workers and community mentors.

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THE KHONGSAI family in front of their sukkah, one of the families in Kibbutz Maoz Tzur. The kibbutz is home to more than 100 people across 21 families and is largely self-sustaining through basic farming, with residents maintaining Jewish traditions while awaiting their journey to Israel.
BNEI MENASHE community members arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport.

India's Bnei Menashe Jewish community set for historic homecoming in Israel - opinion

With this resolution, Israel has stated clearly: We are responsible for all Jews, including those whose journeys were interrupted by the tides of exile.

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Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Manipur in India, members of the 'Bnei Menashe' community arrive to the Ben Gurion international airport on March 22, 2018. The 'Bnei Menashe' community belongs to one of the 10 'lost tribes' of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.

Gov't approves plan to bring India's remaining 'lost tribe' Bnei Menashe back to Israel

The new immigrants will undergo Orthodox conversion through the Chief Rabbinate and will mainly settle in Nof HaGalil and other northern communities.

|ByALEX WINSTON

252 Bnei Menashe immigrants to arrive in Israel on Tuesday

The new arrivals will enter COVID-19 quarantine in the Nordiya moshav close to Netanya and will remain there while they adjust to their new country and learn Hebrew

DECEMBER 14, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Bnei Menashe Jews are seen ahead of their aliyah.

India's Bnei Menashe community celebrates Sukkot, awaits aliyah

In partnership with the Absorption Ministry and the Interior Ministry, around 722 Bnei Menashe will be making aliyah following the High Holy Days.

OCTOBER 6, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Bnei Menashe sukkah in Kangpokpi, Manipur, India.

Tamano-Shata to push ahead with aliyah of 722 Bnei Menashe Jews

The first group is currently expected to arrive after the conclusion of the High Holy Days, which ends around the middle of October.

AUGUST 26, 2020ByAARON REICH
PNINA TAMANO-SHATA, newly appointed aliyah and integration minister and the first Ethopia-born minister in the Israeli government

Degel Menashe provides COVID-19 relief for India’s Bnei Menashe

One organization has taken it upon themselves to aid small Jewish communities in a far-off corner of India, and in the process have not only saved lives but also shown the true meaning of charity.

MAY 27, 2020ByALEX WINSTON
SORTING RICE at Beit Shalom Synagogue, Churachandpur, Manipur, India

Indian Jewish immigrant to Israel attacked in racist incident in Tiberias

Am-Shalem Singson, 28, a young member of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community, originally moving to Israel from Manipur, India, in 2017, was attacked Saturday in Tiberias by two men.

MARCH 16, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Michael Freund dances with Bnei Menashe new immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport on November 16

Can we follow Judaism back in time?

How can we distinguish between what is divine and what was generated by the sages; what is original and what evolved later?

JUNE 12, 2019ByMISHAEL DICKMAN, LAURA BEN-DAVID
BNEI MENASHE youth in Manipur, India, wearing traditional cultural garments. Notice their traditional fringes mixed with the modern fringes of their tzitzit.

The journey from India

So far, about 3,000 Bnei Menashe have moved to Israel and undergone the conversion process. Some 7,000 others are waiting to come, puzzled why the Israeli government restricts them to 700 a year.

DECEMBER 7, 2017ByBARBARA SOFER
NEWLY ARRIVED Jewish immigrants from India cry upon arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2006. The immigrants are members of the Bnei Menashe community from India’s remote northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur

Members of Indian ‘lost tribe’ finally reunited with families

Shavei Israel leader calls on gov’t to bring remaining 7,000 Bnei Menashe as soon as possible.

NOVEMBER 16, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Members of India’s Bnei Menashe Jewish community