Yahoo

Black Hebrew Israelites support Kyrie Irving ahead of Nets game

In a press conference Sunday, Irving still did not completely distance himself from the thesis of the film that led to his eight-game suspension. NBA player Kyrie Irving returned to the court with the ...
Yahoo

Kyrie Irving was suspended for promoting an antisemitic film. Here are the origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement and its extremist sects.

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 ...
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 ...
National Review

Black Hebrew Israelites Are Not Hippies

NY AG Letitia James Expands Battle to Disqualify Trump-Appointed, Unconfirmed U.S. Attorneys Audio By Carbonatix When asked about a case regarding a group of Black Hebrew Israelites in her Senate ...
The New York Times

Hebrew Israelites

The police arrested the owner of the store in Keyport, N.J., on criminal weapons charges. By Christina Goldbaum and Ashley Southall Inside the harrowing rampage that left a police officer and three ...
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 ...
The Grio

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

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 ...
The Forward

Could Israelites be brought into mainstream Judaism? 50 years ago, one effort did just that

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Can mainstream ...
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 Forward

African Hebrew Israelites Reenact Exodus in Passover Tradition

At dawn on Tuesday morning, a large group gathered on a mountain in the Negev desert to reenact the moments leading up to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Dressed in robes and flowing dresses, these ...
The Grio

Black Hebrew Israelites support Kyrie Irving ahead of Nets game

NBA player Kyrie Irving returned to the court with the Brooklyn Nets after an eight-game suspension Sunday, and the mix of reactions varied as Black Hebrew Israelites met outside the arena to show ...