Tuesday, April 05, 2005
LOST TRIBE FOUND
A reader sent in this article about the verification of a lost tribe of Israel living in India. Arrangements are being made for their emigration to Israel.
A GROUP of 7,000 Indians who believe that they belong to a fabled “lost tribe” expect to emigrate to Israel after being recognised as descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has acknowledged the status of the Bnei Menashe people and will send a team of rabbinical judges to a remote corner of northeast India, next to Burma, to convert them to Judaism.
The conversions will ensure that the group who claim to be “children of the tribe of Manasseh, a son of Joseph” will be able to emigrate to Israel under the Jewish Law of Return. It will allow them to circumvent an Interior Ministry ban imposed on the Bnei Menashe Indians two years ago.
