A group of people living in India claims to be Israel’s long-lost tribe of Manasseh. After centuries of displacement, they finally have their chance to migrate back to Israel and eventually claim ...

A detailed description of the Jewish tribe at Khaibar, on the Nejd-Hedjas border, in Central Arabia, was given by Nissim Tajjir, son of the Chief Rabbi of Damascus who returned from a trip to Hedjas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Often overlooked, the communities in South and Southeast Asia complicate notions of Jewish identity while emphasizing its malleability. Yonahan Khaim, the chazzan, or prayer leader, of the Talpiot ...

Twenty years ago, I moved from L.A. to San Francisco and then Bellingham, Wash. — so far north I could spit across the border and a Canadian would apologize for being too close. For the longest time I ...

After volunteering with Tribe 12 for many years and seeing firsthand the power of connection within a community, Jess Meyers decided to further dedicate their professional life to forwarding the ...

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 ...

The notion that Asians and Jews are two shoots from the same cultural rootstock is an old but evergreen meme. You see it in fringe theories about the Lost Tribes of Israel—there’s an entire body of ...

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 ...