The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons, are central to the Hebrew Bible narrative. Scholars question the ...

Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the Bible, we are told that a divine being he wrestled with changed Jacob’s name. In Genesis 32:28, the ...

(JTA) — One hundred and two members of the Jewish community in India, who trace their heritage to one of Israel’s lost tribes, are moving to Israel this week. The immigrants, who hail from the ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

Their conversion is apt indeed, as I am convinced the Indians originate in Ancient Israel. Indeed, I can bring proofs from the Bible that they are of the Lost Tribes." The association of the ...

The name, Israel, is in recognition of the same Israel who blesses the tribes in this week’s Torah reading. The Ethiopian community is known as Beta Israel, the house of Israel. The operations ...

Bani Israel are speakers of the Jahanke dialect, the language of the Diakhanke tribe, which the International Journal of African Historical Studies says migrated down the Niger River, settling in ...

This is one of the Zohar’s insights on this week’s parashat, where Jacob gives blessings to his sons (and two of his grandsons) whose descendants will become “the tribes of Israel.” ...

(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Jacob lies on his deathbed, surrounded by his sons – the 12 tribes of Israel, the foundational pillars of the nation. In his final words, Jacob gazes into the ...