Wednesday Nov 12, 2008
Posted by Amir Mizroch
The Interior Ministry has granted permission to the Shavei Israel organization to bring a group of some 150 Bnei Menashe from northeastern India on aliya, a government source told The Jerusalem Post last week.
The Bnei Menashe claim descent from a lost tribe of Israel and some 7,200 of them reside primarily in the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur, which border Burma and Bangladesh.
While there has been no decision to allow the remaining 7,200 Bnei Menashe to make aliya, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit has allowed the 150 in on humanitarian grounds, as members of this group were previously promised their aliya would be approved, and thus many of them had sold their homes and most of their possessions.
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Ten Lost Tribes Challenge - India
Jerusalem Post News Editor and award-winning blogger Amir Mizroch , together with Shai Bar Ilan Geographical Tours and Eretz Ahavati, travels to North East India with the aim of meeting the alleged dispersed descendants of Menashe and Ephraim, the sons of Joseph. The 12 day journey will cover the border area between Burma, India and Bangladesh, to the states of Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, and then continue to the northern plains of the state of Uttar Pradesh. For more of Amir's blogs and articles, visit his personal blog Forecast Highs
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Recent Comments
Harold Reimann Lucerne Valley, CA, USA: The Birthright and Blessing from Almighty God were given to the two sons of Joseph. When the rest of Israel (including Judah) gave a blessing they said God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh! That leaves India out. All nations except two.
Ephraim would be a multitude of nations. Manasseh would be a great nation. Any two nations like that come to mind AND THEY ARE BROTHERS? Give you a hint. One was recently an empire upon which the sun never set. The other is the greatest nation today (about to go down though). AND THEY ARE BROTHERS!
Lien Kuki, Mumbai: I think the Jewish Missionaries should changed their "poverty-removal", "modern-lifestyle", and a "migration-into-advance-country" strategy of inducing people to follow Judaism amongst the Kukis. It will fail. First they should convert all the Christian Jews in Israel and USA, and then think about the possible conversion for Kukis.
I, for one, seriously object to the idea of being a Judaism follower, in order to be a Jew. The patronising attitude has to be stopped. We don't want your "Whiteman's burden" to be fixated on us.
I would rather be a Christian than be a Jew, if I cannot be both.
hiyyavrom nachums - Astrakhan: Oppression (usually from losing a civil war), and ignorance-cultivating missionaries (many from Massachusetts) engender or feed the "Lost Tribe" neurosis. Why anyone would worship, let alone identify with, losers sure beats me. Unless, of course, they're snake-oil salesmen.
Lost tribes? Nyet. Lost Jews? Muchos! Just look in Scarsdale, Bev Hills, or the Tel Aviv discos.
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