A detailed description of the Jewish tribe at Khaibar, on the Nejd-Hedjas border, in Central Arabia, was given by Nissim Tajjir, son of the Chief Rabbi of Damascus who returned from a trip to Hedjas ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a lost biblical Jewish tribe emigrated to Israel on Monday from their village in northeastern India, celebrating their arrival after ...

Often overlooked, the communities in South and Southeast Asia complicate notions of Jewish identity while emphasizing its malleability. Yonahan Khaim, the chazzan, or prayer leader, of the Talpiot ...

KIRYAT ARBA, WEST BANK — When Tzvi Khaute came six years ago from a remote corner of India, claiming to be of the lost Jewish tribe of Menashe, Israeli authorities didn't buy it. Things may be ...

Existence of Jewish tribes in the Sahara Desert, hitherto unknown, was reported here today by Andre Chouraqui, assistant secretary general of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, who recently completed ...

The notion that Asians and Jews are two shoots from the same cultural rootstock is an old but evergreen meme. You see it in fringe theories about the Lost Tribes of Israel—there’s an entire body of ...

Beit El (in red circle) was in the territory given to the Tribe of Ephraim. Rabbenu Bachya asks as follows in this week’s parsha: Why did God send twelve scouts and not a smaller number like the two ...

SPOOKED BY SPY SCANDAL: The spying charges leveled against retired Army engineer Ben-Ami Kadish are dividing the Jewish War Veterans chapter that he once led. Meanwhile, the New Jersey octogenarian is ...