Then we have Native Americans. For centuries, even as I grew up in the United States in the 1960s, a belief persisted that ...

Over the centuries, the Beta Israel have been connected with the tribe of Dan. This association has eased the process of their return to the state of Israel in recent times.

These are known as the lost tribes of Israel. The southern kingdom (Judah), however, remained. In this gallery, we look back at the history of the 12 tribes of Israel. Click on to learn more about ...

The Palestinian people of Gaza are being starved and/or gunned down. There are reports that food relief efforts on occasions ...

Israel’s government approved the immigration of the Bnei Menashe, an Indian tribe that claims Jewish ancestry. The approval comes after a five-year gap since the last group of Bnei Menashe ...

The return of a Lost Tribe of Israel, 27 centuries later Thousands of Bnei Menashe in northeast India began coming back to their ancestors’ homeland in the 1980s. About 6,000 more are waiting to join ...

The Bene Menashe stem from a number of Christian groups of the Indo-Burmese borderland, some of whom back in the 1950s declared their descent from the Lost Tribes of Israel. In this article, I will ...

Shavei Israel, a nonprofit organization that aims to bring “lost tribe” Jewish communities to Israel, has been responsible for the Bnei Menashe aliyah for more than two decades and has helped ...