Over the centuries, the Beta Israel have been connected with the tribe of Dan. This association has eased the process of their return to the state of Israel in recent times. The Scottish ...

Q. Jesus was a Jew, but which of the 12 tribes of Israel was he descended from? By the way, I have no doubt that I’m descended from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. — E., Far Rockaway, N.Y. A.

However, on the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BC the northern tribes split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom.

In the Bible, the Land of Israel was divided into twelve areas, one for each tribe (except for the priestly tribe of Levi) .But 2,700 years ago, ten of the twelve tribes were lost, exiled by ...

Ben Israel used it as the basis for his influential work Hope of Israel, a compendium of information about the whereabouts of the Lost Tribes of Israel, which was published in 1650.

To the organization Shavei Israel, which has been so vital in helping find and bring back our lost tribes. About the Author Ben-Tzion Spitz is the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.

The Bnei Menashe, or sons of Manasseh, are supposedly descended from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Biblical Israel sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire starting in 733 BC.

They wandered for 2700 years, but now 200 Indian Jews, Bnai Menashe -- remnants of one of the Lost Tribes -- have come home to Israel ...

Rabbi Harry Rozenberg, the Israeli-American founder of the school, joins a lineage of Jewish seekers who are trying to bring about the “prophetic reunion” of “lost tribes” with modern Jews ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ten Indian-Jewish couples from the Bnei Menashe “lost tribe” were married in a Jewish ceremony at an absorption center in northern Israel.