In April 2005, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of Israel's two Chief Rabbis, formally accepted the Bnei Menashe as descendants of one of the lost tribes after years of review of their claims and other research [REF].
Learning Hebrew has been a great challenge, especially for the older generation, for whom the phonology of their native Indic and Sinitic languages makes Hebrew especially challenging.