DIMONA, Israel — 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 ...

(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 ...

Three and a half years after over 50 African Hebrew Israelites from the southern Israel city of Dimona received deportation notices, 43 have received temporary residence, 16 of them with a promise ...

The Black Israelites are a fringe religious movement associated with antisemitism and forced segregation. Members of the group allegedly visited Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and Rosebud, Oregon ...

But few of these explainers are shaped by Black scholars who study these movements or by Hebrew Israelites themselves. Bruce Haynes: The media and internet are major sources of confusion and ...

The week-long holiday celebrates the Jewish Festival of Freedom, which commemorates the liberation of Israelites from ancient Egyptian slavery. It begins with a traditional seder meal, allowing ...

The Black Hebrew Israelite movement gives African peoples a sense of self by claiming the identity of the nation of Israel depicted in the biblical texts common to Jews and Christians. The ...

“Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up,” they chanted, using a term for people of color who have yet to embrace their “true” identity as descendants of the Biblical Jacob, later called Israel.

Upon Pharaoh ignoring the command to free the Israelites, 10 plagues were unleashed by God on Egypt and its people. These included the death of the firstborn, turning the Nile into blood and locusts.

(RNS) — Peace Village in Dimona, Israel, is the largest enclave of African Americans living outside the US. After decades there, some have finally avoided looming deportation. (RNS ...