Children of Menashe
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Finding the lost tribes of Israel sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie:
Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based group that has been trying to locate descendants of lost Jewish tribes and bring them to Israel, believes that all Chins in Burma, Mizos in Mizoram and Kukis in Manipur — three prominent tribes of the region — are descendants of Menashe, an ancient Jewish leader.
According to the organization, there are up to 2 million Bnei Menashes in the hilly regions of Burma and northeastern India.
After an Assyrian invasion around 722 B.C., Jewish tradition says, 10 tribes from Israel were enslaved in Assyria. Later the tribes fled Assyria and wandered through Afghanistan, Tibet and China,
700 from lost biblical Israeli tribe convert
Richard Evans Lee • September 26, 2005 • Reader, what do you think?
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