Most respondents (62%) said they are not familiar with the teachings, but 19% said they agree with “most of the core ideas taught by Black Hebrew Israelites,” and 4% said they consider ...

Kayitz Kef/Hebrew at Camp gives American Jewish youth the ability to converse in Modern Israeli Hebrew and to own contemporary Israeli culture as part of who they are. Hebrew provides rich and ...

The family is part of the Hebrew Israelites movement, a little-known, American-born faith that contends that Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans are the "true" Jews and descendants of the ...

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 ...

When it disbanded in 1972, those questions were still unresolved. Today, they remain so, with countless media references to “Black Hebrew Israelites” focusing on the exotic and the extreme.

Black Hebrew Israelites demonstrate outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 2018. The movement is comprised of different groups of African Americans who believe they are descendants ...

And we’re available for whoever wants to learn Hebrew and connect to Israel from home or hybrid. We’re very flexible.” Today, OFEK reaches 5,000 students.

The 2020 U.S. Census put the Black population at 41.1 million, so extrapolating from the Lifeway data, there are approximately 1.6 million Hebrew Israelites in the U.S. — not counting the small ...

The conference offered educators a professional development opportunity focusing on Israel education and Hebrew teaching for diaspora educators. Topics included innovative approaches to teaching ...