Operation Menashe: A Lost Tribe’s Journey Home to Zion
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 Israel, had just arrived on a late-night flight from India. […]
Simultaneous Hanukka Lighting Celebrating Aliyah
“…when you kindle the lampss, toward the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast light.” (Numbers 8:2) France, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Israel: These are the seven Jewish communities that will light the seventh candle of Hanukkah together this Tuesday evening (December 3), during an event organized by the […]
Meet a Bnei Menashe Family
Meet the Haokip’s, an inspiring family from the Bnei Menashe community in India, describing their dream to make “aliyah” to Israel in this video.
Bnei Menashe-Israeli Couple Celebrate Oldest Son’s Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. (Ezra 3:1) He likes hamburgers and schnitzel; she prefers spicy curries. He’s a Sabra (native-born Israeli) who grew up on a small moshav (a cooperative agricultural village) near […]
The Tribe of Menashe
The Bnei Menashe (sons of Manasseh) claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who were sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire more than 27 centuries ago. Learn how they are miraculously returning to Israel.
Israeli Cabinet Unanimously Passes Resolution To Bring Bnei Menashe To Israel
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together; a great company shall they return hither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I […]
A Lost Tribe of Israel Returns to Zion
230 Bnei Menashe, members of a Lost Tribe of Israel, recently returned home to Zion from India after 27 generations being exiled from the Land of Israel.
‘Israel Returns’ Helps Bnei Menashe Build Sukkot In India
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths; that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 23:42-43) Every year, the Bnei […]
Philippine Churches Pray for Israel’s Return
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:34) As the festival of Sukkot concludes, this year’s celebration of the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles saw an unusual convergence of thousands of Christians joining what is usually […]
‘Israel Returns’ Sweats It Out On Yom Kippur In India
Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; there shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:27) It is a heavenly irony that, no matter what the temperature on the […]
