Bnei Menashe Indian community celebrates Passover

The Bnei Menashe community throughout the remote northeastern Indian state of Manipur and Mizoram prepared for Passover by baking matzah, the holiday’s traditional unleavened bread.

According to Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit organization lobbying for 20-plus years for the Aliyah of the Bnei Menashe, the community practiced a Biblical form of Judaism down through the generations and into the last century, and marked Passover with a number of rituals, which included the removal...