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The original cover and title page of A Trip to the North Pole; or, Discovery of the Ten Tribes (1903) On the first Sunday of December in 1903, a headline in the Salt Lake Tribune announced the startling news, NORTH POLE DISCOVERED—six years before explorer Robert Peary’s famous, if disputed, expedition. According to the article, a Mr. O.J.S. Lindelof had, on a recent trip to Europe, been given a waterlogged manuscript that he brought back with him to Salt Lake City. When he finally got around to reading it, the manuscript turned out to be a record of the discovery of the North Pole by a S...

252 new immigrants arrive in Israel   Eleonora Shiluv/Ministry of Aliyah and Integration New immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community step off the plane at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, Dec. 2020. (Israel21C via JNS) - Immigrants from the Jewish "lost tribe" of Bnei Menashe landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport this week to build a new life in Israel. Hailing from Northeast India, the Bnei Menashe community is said to be descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel - specifically, the tribe of Menashe - that scattered across the globe after being exiled at the end of the Firs...

The Ghosts of Christmas Past by Ross Macfarlane Ross Macfarlane © Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane Christmas memories? Did I ever tell you about the time that I nearly killed my father? It was Christmas Eve, 1967. I was nine. I was walking with my mum and dad along the street. And as we neared home, my dad and I were playing a game. Side-by-side, we were playfully kicking each other’s legs from behind. A great game, and I was chortling away every time I delivered my childish blow to my dad’s legs. But then it happened. Our legs got tangled. I remember the puzz...

The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 20, 2020 Bnei Menash from northern India make aliyah, December 15, 2020 (photo credit: ELIONORA SHILUV / ALIYAH AND ABSORPTION MINISTRY) Immigrants from the Jewish “lost tribe” of Bnei Menashe landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport this week to build a new life in Israel. Hailing from northeast India, the Bnei Menashe community is said to be descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel — specifically the tribe of Menashe — that scattered across the globe after being exiled at the end of the First Temple period in the eighth cen...