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 aged 75. Ben Ammi Ben Israel died ...

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 ...

In 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths of South ...

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JERUSALEM - The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a movement that believes some black Americans are the descendants of an ancient Israelite tribe, has died in the southern Israeli ...

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In 1997, back when major metropolitan dailies apparently had enough cash lying around to send staff writers to Israel, The Dallas Morning News profiled the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group of expat ...

(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 ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...

The tribes being spoken of are, of course, those of ancient Israel. The Israelites were divided into 12 tribes (not including the Levites who were not landowners). Each tribe was assigned a piece of ...

One of the most fascinating historic and halakhic issues to come to life in our generation is the attempt to identify the lost ten tribes, descending from the Kingdom of Israel. Unity of the nation ...