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Bnei Menashe Aliyah
Sources: Israeli immigration records; community histories from Manipur and Mizoram; rabbinic conversion and recognition documents.
Bnei Menashe refers to communities in northeastern India, especially Manipur and Mizoram, who identify with descent from the tribe of Manasseh. Their modern movement toward Judaism and Israel developed through local traditions, biblical reading, contact with Jewish organizations, and efforts to receive rabbinic recognition. Beginning in the early twenty-first century, groups migrated to Israel after conversion or formal recognition processes, often settling in communities where language, employment, and religious adaptation required major adjustment.
The movement is distinct from older Bene Israel, Cochin, and Baghdadi histories. It is rooted in a different region of India and in a modern identity formation that combines oral origin memory, Christian and post-Christian biblical engagement, Hebrew study, and Israeli state procedures. Its ongoing character makes it one of the few active aliyah streams still unfolding in visible stages. The history includes sincere identity claims, political controversy, conversion debates, family separation, and the creation of new Indian-Israeli communal life.