Here is the final Bnei Menashe feature that ran Friday in The Jerusalem Post Magazine section, summing up my trip to North East India:

How did a few thousand exiled Jews from ancient Judea and Samaria traverse on foot across the entire Middle East, Europe and Asia to end up 2,700 years later in isolated border regions and backwater villages dotted around the globe from northeast India to Nigeria? How long did it take them to make the arduous journey, and what were their disparate routes? Did they stick together through thick and thin, or did they split up, succumbing to the merciless weight of exile in foreign lands? How many of them dropped off along the way, perished or settled down and assimilated with the local tribes across the oceans, mountains and deserts? Continue reading →