Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...

Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to move to ...

Across the Sabbath River In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel by Hillel Halkin Houghton Mifflin, 394 pp., $28 THE CENTURIES-OLD search for Israel's "lost tribes" has been experiencing a revival. Last ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel reportedly has decided to adopt about 6,000 Indians who claim Jewish ancestry as descendants of the lost tribe of Manasseh, and plans to send a team of rabbinical judges to ...

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 ...

Answer: It is important to remember that Israel was composed of 12 tribes, descendants of Jacob, who was also called Israel. Following the Exodus from Egypt and the wandering in the wilderness, the ...

Israel's government approved a plan on Sunday to bring the majority of the remaining members of the Bnei Menashe community from India to Israel over the next five years. The proposal, submitted by ...