In 722 BCE, the Assyrian Empire conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and scattered ten tribes across the ancient world. Most of them vanished from history.
One of them didn’t.
For nearly three thousand years, in the remote hill villages of northeastern India, a community called the Bnei Menashe kept Shabbat, observed the Jewish festivals, and told their children they were waiting to go home. No rabbis. No yeshivas. No Jewish infrastructure of any kind. Just the memory, passed from parent to child across a hundred generations, that they were the descendants of the tribe of Manasseh and that one day God would bring them back to the land.
Because of you, that day is now.
We want you to understand what your support of Rise Up with Israel actually does. Not in abstract terms. In real families, real children, real lives taking root in the biblical homeland. Thank you for making this possible.
In recent years, thousands of Bnei Menashe have made aliyah to Israel. They are not arriving as tourists or curiosity seekers. They are arriving as people who have been waiting their entire lives for this moment, and the moment is harder than they imagined. They come from villages with no running water, no internet, no preparation for the rhythms of modern Israeli life. They arrive not knowing Hebrew, not knowing how Israeli schools work, not knowing something as basic as what to pack in a child’s schoolbag on the first day of class.
Your giving closes that gap. When you give to Rise Up with Israel, you put Hebrew teachers in front of families who waited three millennia to speak their ancestral language. You fund the practical absorption work that teaches them how Israeli society works, from the school system to the weekly rhythms of daily life. You are the reason that gap between the dream of return and the reality of it gets smaller every single day.
The prophet Jeremiah wrote: “There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall return to their own country” (Jeremiah 31:17). The Bnei Menashe have believed that promise longer than most nations have existed. You are helping make it real.
You have already raised $75,000 through Rise Up with Israel this campaign. That giving powers everything: building the Jewish-Christian coalition, fighting for Israeli sovereignty, telling the truth about this war, and standing with the families on the front lines of the land, including families like these. There is still more to do, and the campaign is still open. If this story moves you, and if you believe the ingathering of the exiles is not a metaphor but a mission, there is still time to go further.
Will you help bring the next family home?