 However, several modern day groups claim descent, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support.The Samaritans claim that some of their adherents are descended from this tribe.Further afield, in northeast India,the Chin-Kuki-Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves "Bnei Menashe"; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to emigrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Judaism in accordance with halachic standards.