(JTA) — This week marks Yom Haatzmaut, our beloved Israel’s 75th birthday — the day on the Hebrew calendar when David Ben-Gurion proclaimed “the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of ...

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 ...

A high profile march in Brooklyn and recent allusions to the movement’s ideology by the likes of Kanye West have some Jews on edge. “Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up,” they chanted, using a term for ...

(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) — The small ...

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 her home for 24 years ...

Hebrew Israelite groups have been making headlines thanks to Kanye West, Kyrie Irving and their antisemitism controversies. News outlets and advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League have ...

“We want Israel to be our synagogue. … OK, well, Israel’s a state. It’s not a synagogue, and it’s going to make a whole set of calculations,” said Tal Becker, an Israeli lawyer and diplomatic adviser, ...

The last few months of 2022 were a chaotic and painful time for many Jews of color. Jews of all backgrounds watched in horror as thousands of radical Hebrew Israelites marched in formation chanting ...

(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 members seem ...