Tzur, the biblical use of language is very precise. Please forgive me if I take it literally. Does it not strike you as odd that there is absolutely no mention of Jews or Judaism in the Torah?

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There is only mention of Israelites receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. To speak of Jews or Judaism receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai is an anachronism. Jews are mentioned in the Tanakh only after the Davidic kingdom split. Historically, Judaism as it exists today, its rabbinical version, started to develop in the Babylonian captivity as there was no Temple sacrifice service possible. So an alternative system of belief had to be and was developed. Most of rabbinical Judaism thought and teachings, is even more recent like that from Akiva and Maimonides.

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With respect to your assertion that Judaism speaks for all of the 12 tribes, I already countered that with scripture in Ezekiel 11:15. " Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh: unto us is this land given in possession." There you see that those in charge of Jerusalem were dismissive of the land rights of Jews and Israelites in captivity or diaspora. So there is a conflict of interest, after all. The record in the Tanakh refutes your not guilty plea concerning the sour grapes consternation shown by the prodigal son's older brother. Here is another verse in the Tanakh that supports my statement that there is a family feud between Judah and Israel, please read on in Isaiah 11:13 "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim."

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As far as the ten lost tribes remaining faithful to the Torah in their captivity, this is a very bold claim. The ten lost tribes were taken into captivity because they were unfaithful to Yahweh. Jeroboam made them worship two golden calves and other deities at Mt. Ephraim. King Jeroboam took them away from their three harvest feasts pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jeroboam created other feasts that were in direct competition with these three harvest feasts. The curses of Deuteronomy 28 befell Ephraim. If someone is guilty of Judeophobia (antisemitism is a misnomer as majority of present day Jews are not semitic and majority of semites are not Jews) it was king Jeroboam and his successors. I can only remain sceptical about the scholarship of anyone claiming otherwise when the scripture is very clear about it. Yes, indeed there were token Israelites in Jerusalem for the feast of Shavuot as the book of Acts of the Apostles records it. But this is not yet the full restoration as you can see that Israelites in exile are still in the Valley of the dried up bones awaiting Messiah, please read on Ezekiel 37:11. The end of the family feud between Ephraim and Judah will only come when Messiah ben David sits on the reunified kingdom. This is a future event prophesied in Deuteronomy 30:3; Isaiah 11-11-12; Jeremiah 30:3; 32:37; Ezekiel 11:17; 36:24

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Tzur, you are not yet like the sand of the sea, are you? Remember this: in one day, the very future day of Jezreel, Judah and Israel will walk together under one chief (head). This will be in that place, Jerusalem, where these millions of exiled Israelites  are told that they are not His people. That is that they are not Jews because they don't conform to or comply with Jewish rabbinical standards.  Millions of Israelites will come home in that day. That is a Messianic prophecy.      Please read with me the book of the prophet Hosea 1:10-11 (It is found in Hosea 2:1 in some Tanakh versions) "Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living El.
And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and shall set over themselves one head. And they shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel."