Mizo Jews

·         On July 6, 2008 Jeremiah Hnamte, a leader of Jewish community of Mizo Jews, who call themselves Bnei Menashe and claim descent from tribe of Mannasseh, shared plans to leave for the “Promised Land”

·         Mannasseh one of the 10 tribes exiled from Israel by the Assyrians 2,700 years ago

·         The United Messianic Youth Council (UMYC), India, the apex body of the Messianic in the country headquartered in Imphal (Manipur) also recently announced that in April 2008 the Supreme Court of Israel allowed 'Indian Jews' to secure Israeli citizenship.

·         The Israeli Supreme Court on April 16 this year overturned its previous ruling and ruled that Mizo Jews could get the Israeli citizenship according to the 'Law of Return' as per a petition filed by the US-based United Messianic Jews Congregation.

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·         The Israeli law defines a Jew as 'a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has converted to Judaism'.

·         Many Mizos 'belonging to the lost tribe of Israel' have formally converted themselves to Judaism after being 'baptised' at 'Mikvahs' or spiritual baths by rabbis visiting Mizoram and Manipur during the past few years.

·         A Mikvah or spiritual bath of the Jews was erected at Hnamte's bamboo industry premises at the Zuangtui locality near here, where they were formally converted in 2006 to Judaism by the rabbis.

·         A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites or Hebrews of the ancient Middle East.

·         he ethnicity and the religion of Judaism, the traditional faith of the Jewish nation, are strongly interrelated, and converts to Judaism are both included and have been absorbed within the Jewish people throughout the millennia.

·         By traditional accounts, Jewish history began with the Biblical patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, during the second millennium BCE. The Jews enjoyed two periods of political autonomy in their national homeland, the Land of Israel, during ancient history.

·         The first era, which encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy (the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah), ended with the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE.

·         The second era was the period of the Hasmonean Kindgom (140–37 BCE). Since the destruction of the First Temple, the diaspora has been the home of most of the world's Jews.

·         Except in the modern State of Israel, established in 1948, the Jews have been a minority in every country in which they have lived and they frequently experienced persecution, resulting in a population that fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries.