{"id":238,"date":"2004-08-18T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T11:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=238"},"modified":"2010-05-31T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:54:00","slug":"mizo_jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/mizo_jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizo Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3575716.stm\">Israeli rabbis are soon to meet<\/a> to determine whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3228054.stm\">Jews of Mizoram \/ Bene Menashi<\/a> are &#8220;really jewish&#8221; and therefore entitled to excercise claims under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectlaw.com\/files\/int16.htm\">law of return<\/a>. No word on whether the genetic test for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cohen-levi.org\/jewish_genes_and_genealogy\/the_dna_chain_of_tradition.htm\">Cohen gene <\/a>has been performed, like with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creationists.org\/patrickyoung\/article10.html\">Bene Israel of India or the Lemba of Southern Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>p.s. Mizoram is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/maps\/mizoram\/mizoramphysical.htm\">state at the eastern edge of India<\/a>, just to the south of Assam, sandwiched between Bangladesh and Burma. These are desis who claim to have been a &#8220;lost tribe&#8221; but whose claims are fairly recent.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli rabbis are soon to meet to determine whether the Jews of Mizoram \/ Bene Menashi are &#8220;really jewish&#8221; and therefore entitled to excercise claims under the law of return. No word on whether the genetic test for the Cohen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/mizo_jews\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}