Cant they open a 7-11 on every street corner...??
It’s a lengthy article that notes that the Bnei Menashe were essentially recruited by Michael Freund and Benjamin Netanyahu.
The dispute over their lack of Jewish DNA seems more important to Christians and non-religious Jews. They seem to have converted according to Jewish law, which makes them Jews regardless of DNA.
Never lost. After the revolt of the Northern tribes under Jeroboam...
2 Chronicles 11:
13 The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. 14 The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord 15 when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.
16 Those from EVERY TRIBE of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord, the God of their ancestors. 17 They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time.
2 CHRONICLES 15:
9 Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
Luke 2:36 NT times..
There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,