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 Israelite movement believes certain people of color are God's true chosen people. Extremist sects of the group have become more militant, per the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ...

DIMONA, Israel (AP) — For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been ...

Kendrick Lamar became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music on Monday. Lamar also has a fascinating connection to the Hebrew Israelites, a mostly black group that claims Jewish roots.

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The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben ...

Black Hebrew Israelites can refer broadly to people of African descent who claim to be descended from the biblical Israelites and practice certain Jewish rituals. The movement emerged from a stream of ...

Rabbi Capers Shmuel Funnye called out “the heinous actions of two disturbed individuals who cloaked themselves in anti-Semitism and hate-filled rhetoric.” (JTA) — The leader of a prominent Black ...

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 ...

Members of the African Hebrew Israelite community, popularly known as "the Black Hebrews," celebrated Shavuot on Sunday in Dimona, Israel. The community, who call themselves the African Hebrew ...