Their story rarely finds its way into the mainstream news. When it does, readers are surprised. A cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama is a black rabbi in Chicago? Generations of African Americans — ...
Dressed in matching purple hoodies and shirts, with gold fringes attached to the bottom in observance of Deuteronomy 22:12, hundreds of members of a controversial Hebrew Israelite group marched ...
The Black Hebrew Israelites, members of which identify themselves as a historic religious group, has taken center stage after some of its members appeared to be part of a controversial confrontation ...
Hebrew Israelite groups have been making headlines thanks to Kanye West, Kyrie Irving and their antisemitism controversies. News outlets and advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League have ...
(RNS) — The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem ...
A high profile march in Brooklyn and recent allusions to the movement’s ideology by the likes of Kanye West have some Jews on edge. “Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up,” they chanted, using a term for ...
The police arrested the owner of the store in Keyport, N.J., on criminal weapons charges. By Christina Goldbaum and Ashley Southall Inside the harrowing rampage that left a police officer and three ...
What are the Myths, Facts, About Hebrew Israelites? This blog highlights and summarizes an article by Robin Washington for Forward. The article features Bruce Haynes, a professor of sociology at the ...