The Role of the Nations in the Return to Zion

In the rush of everyday life, it is easy to forget that we are living in special times. Inundated by the daily drone of negativity emanating from much of the media, we often lose sight of the remarkable miracles that are taking place before our very eyes.

Perhaps the most momentous of these is the ongoing saga of the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. What the prophets foretold millennia ago is now becoming reality, as G-d gathers in His people Israel from around the world.

Over the past sixty years, since the founding of the State of Israel, Jews from Russia, Ethiopia, and elsewhere have all heard the sound of the great shofar, and come home to Jerusalem.

But now, a very special group has begun its long journey back.

Author and Shavei Yisrael Founder Michael Freund with a Bnei Menashe in India

A people once thought to be lost have been touched by the L-rd and their hearts have stirred with yearning for His embrace.

In the farthest reaches of northeastern India, along the border with Burma and Bangladesh, live the Bnei Menashe