Approximately 5,500 members of the Bnei Menashe community currently reside in India, waiting for the opportunity to start new lives in Israel.
The Bnei Menashe Jewish community – which numbers roughly 5,000 total inside India – has become a victim of ethnic tensions in India's northern state of Manipur.
In 2005, a chief rabbi of Israel affirmed their identity as a “lost tribe” group with historic Jewish ties, but researchers have not found sufficient evidence to back the claim.
Violence erupted during a protest march on Tuesday by thousands of tribal people opposing a demand by a non-tribal group for the constitutionally defined status of an official tribe.
The siddur, created by the Shavei Israel organization, contains the original Hebrew text according to the Sephardic rite along with a phonetic transliteration and annotations in the Kuki language.
The creature, whose proper Latin name is Catacanthus Incarnatus, kicked off a trend of naming bugs after famous people.
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