Bnei Menashe
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bnei-menashe-229-490360
title:
Bnei Menashe
text:
The Bnei Menashe 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, allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi. 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 wer
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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:
2024-09-15T07:02:05Z
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