The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

JERUSALEM – Israel has decided to adopt about 6,000 Indians who claim Jewish ancestry, and plans to send a team of rabbinical judges to formally convert them to Orthodox Judaism (search), the Haaretz ...

The Bnei Menashe community from northeast India, who claim descent from a lost tribe of Israel, will be resettled in Israel ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...

Israel has approved a national program that aims to complete the immigration of the Bnei Menashe community by the end of the ...

Proponents of the theory that the Celts are descended from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, the tribe of Dan, in historical essays and elsewhere point to various parallels between Irish and ...

JERUSALEM - The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a movement that believes some black Americans are the descendants of an ancient Israelite tribe, has died in the southern Israeli ...

Israel has approved a plan to take the last 5,800 Bnei Menashe Jews from Mizoram and Manipur to the Jewish country by 2030.

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Live ‘Israel Story’ episode highlights deep fault lines in Israeli society. Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion famously conceived of the country as a melting pot. But seven decades later, in ...

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 ...