Religion Dispatches

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

Did you catch the press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denouncing the slander against the International Israelite Board of Rabbis (IIBR), a Black rabbinical organization, by leaders of ...
The Jewish Exponent

How Many Hebrew Israelites Are There, and How Worried Should Jews Be?

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns Jersey City shooting

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 ...
Jewish Journal

Black Hebrew Israelites Chant “We Are the Real Jews” in Support of Kyrie Irving

Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites demonstrate outside the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) A group of Black Hebrew Israelite protesters can ...
Yahoo

After decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportation

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 ...

Here's what to know about the Black Hebrew Israelites, the group of protesters that has shot to the center of the Covington Catholic controversy

The group's members are known for aggressively preaching in public, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has scrutinized some ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The “american Israelite” Protests Against Pope’s Insult to Jews in Consecration Prayer

Exception to the manner in which Pope Pius XI made reference to the Jewish people in his consecration prayer was taken by the “American Israelite,” leading American Jewish weekly and organ of the ...
WGBH

All Rev'd Up: Who Are The Black Hebrew Israelites?

Six people were killed last week during what authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic domestic terror attack in a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey ...