Donna Danna (2 May 2006)
"Another Tribe Seeks Rabbinical Recognition"


Another Tribe Seeks Rabbinical Recognition

BOMBAY -- A year after northeastern India's Bnei Menashe tribe won rabbinical recognition as one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel, another tribe in southern India said it got lost from Israel about three millennia ago and it too has the right to return to the Promised Land.
 
About 300 Jews living in Prakasham and Guntur districts of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh call themselves Bnei Ephraim, the children of Ephraim, because they think they are descendants of Ephraim, leader of one of the biblical lost tribes.

 
FULL STORY at
 
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060501-094458-5135r.htm