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 ...

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 ...

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’s founding father David Ben-Gurion famously conceived of the country as a melting pot. But seven decades later, in 2015, Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, described it as a society divided ...

A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request ...

Israel’s government approved the immigration of the Bnei Menashe, an Indian tribe that claims Jewish ancestry. The approval comes after a five-year gap since the last group of Bnei Menashe arrived in ...

BEN GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Israel – Fifty-one people who claim descent from a lost Jewish tribe immigrated to Israel from a remote corner of India early Tuesday, the first wave of the Bnei ...

Numerous Kohanim and the Levites participated in the wars of Israel. Even before they participated in wars as regular ...

ELTON, LA (AP) - The Coushatta Tribe proclaimed its friendship with Israel in a ceremony Monday marking the expected start of a relationship with the Mideast state as the Louisiana tribe seeks to ...

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 ...