Bnei Menashe
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title:
Bnei Menashe
text:
, "Children of Menasseh", known as the Shinlung in India) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel; some of them have adopted Judaism. The community has around 10,000 members. The movement began in 1951, when a tribal leader reported having a dream that his people's ancient homeland was Israel; some tribal members began embracing the idea that they were Jews. Before the movem
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Group of self-claimed Jews from northeast India
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnei_Menashe
date created:
2005-03-31T12:59:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T03:13:49Z
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