A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

(JTA) — Israel has ordered the departure of 46 families belonging to the community of African Hebrew Israelites within 60 days. Prince Immanuel Ben-Yehuda, a spokesman for the community, told The ...

Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, born Ben Carter in Chicago, led a group of African-American Jews in Israel who believed they were descended from the biblical tribe of Judah. (JTA) — The spiritual leader of the ...

Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the founder of the African Hebrew Israelites movement, died at age 75 on Dec. 27 in Israel. Born Ben Carter in Chicago in 1939, Ben-Israel said that some black Africans were ...

JERUSALEM — The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a polygamous vegan group that believes some black Americans descended from a Jewish tribe, has died. He was 75. Ben Ammi Ben Israel ...

Did you ever stop and think about why we are called “Jews” and our religion “Judaism”? File this one under the category of things I took for granted until I decided to explore beyond the name.

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