Are Mizos One Among The Ten Lost Tribes of Jews?
The Jerusalem Post: The Ten Lost Tribes Challenge was conceived in a collaborative effort by travel and adventure companies Shai Bar Ilan Tours and Eretz Ahavati.
The first such expedition set off for northeast India in mid-November to meet the descendents of the tribe of Manasseh, a group of some 7,000 Kuki-Mizo Indians living in the remote states of Manipur, Mizoram, Assam and Nagaland along the Burmese border.
The group was made up of 18 Israelis, an American doctor from Santa Fe, New Mexico, two Israeli guides and me. Of the group, only the chief guide and myself were secular. There were six couples, mostly modern Orthodox people in their early 60s and 70s. There was one man in his early 80s. Without exception, each one of the members of the expedition was at some point moved to tears of joy by the opportunity to participate in a unique adventure – discovering a Jewish community in a faraway land.