The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, "Children of Menasseh", known as the Shinlung in India [3]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [4] ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, [3]: 3 allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi. [5]

Bene Menashe is the name given to Judaizing groups from northeast India, mainly in the two Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur. The Bene Menashe claim descent from the tribe of Manasseh , one of the ten tribes exiled from the Land of …

Oct 30, 2022 · About 4,500 strong, the Israeli Kuki-Mizo are known as B’nei Menashe – the sons of Menashe. How did this extraordinary situation come about? Lives of the Children of Manasia contains 12...

Jan 17, 2021 · Thousands of Bnei Menashe in northeast India began coming back to their ancestors’ homeland in the 1980s. About 6,000 more are waiting to join them. Bnei Menashe immigrants are welcomed to Israel.

Yet in the 1980s, the B’nei Menashe or “Children of Menashe,” as they now were called, came under the influence of an Israeli rabbi, Eliyahu Avichayil, who took them under his wing, taught them the basics of Jewish tradition, and persuaded them to live by it.

Jul 28, 2023 · In the early 19th century, Christian missionaries arrived in northeastern India, bordering Myanmar, and encountered people who firmly held on to their monotheistic traditions amid a completely...

Dec 9, 2023 · Bnei Menashe Jews are now facing war and displacement on two fronts: within Israel, and in Manipur, where an ethnic conflict has been raging for nearly eight months.

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. Their ancestors wandered through Central Asia and the Far East for centuries, before settling in what is now northeastern India, along the border with Burma and Bangladesh.

BENE MENASHE, name given to Judaizing groups from northeast India mainly in the two Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur. The Bene Menashe claim descent from the tribe of Manasseh, one of the ten tribes exiled from the Land of Israel by the Assyrians over 2,700 years ago.

The Bnei Menashe are a small group who started studying and practicing Judaism since the 1970s in a desire to return to what they believe is the religion of their ancestors. The total population of Manipur and Mizoram is more than 3.7 million. The Bnei Menashe number around 10,000; close to 3,000 have emigrated to Israel.