The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element ...

Ben-Israel believed that some African-Americans were descended from ... The approximately 3,000 remaining African Hebrew Israelites, also known as Black Hebrews, make their own clothes, practice ...

“Many African-American Jews and Jews of color are ... Read more about the Black Hebrew Israelites here. Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all. Your donation to the Jewish Telegraphic ...

claiming Black Americans are the true chosen people of God. The movement also created its own interpretations of the Bible: Black Hebrew Israelites believe that Jesus is not white, for example ...

Hebrew Israelites and a number of other black-oriented religious groups are firmly committed to the proposition that Negroes — not to be confused with Africans — are the people of the book.

The group has been listed as an “extremist sect” within the Black Hebrew Israelites movement ... were stealing and eating ...

And then I noticed the Black Hebrew Israelites who were starting to insult the students. I found out later that with our ...

Elishai Young, 19, from Dimona, in southern Israel, reopens the decades-long campaign for state recognition of the non-Jewish Hebrew ... Israelite tribe. It was founded in 1966 by an Afro-American ...

The students, meanwhile, said that they started chanting school fight songs in response to taunts from a group of Black Hebrew Israelites — a religious group that believes African-Americans are ...

Amar'e Stoudemire is an American former professional basketball ... Despite his Baptist upbringing, Amar'e now identifies as a Black Hebrew Israelite. During his childhood, Amar'e lived briefly ...