Their community numbers around 5,000, and while they have integrated reasonably well in Dimona, they live in limbo because their future in Israel remains uncertain. There is no such creature as an ...

When I went to graduate school, we were taught that Mark is the oldest Gospel while Matthew and Luke copied Mark, and that Mark came from a theoretical source named Q (after German word “quelle” ...

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2002-11-15 04:00:00 PDT Dimona, Israel-- In Chicago, kindergarten teacher Samaheyah Bat-Yisrael says her life was "desolation." But in this hardscrabble Negev desert town, she says she has found her ...

The spiritual leader of Israel’s Black Hebrews movement, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, 75, died suddenly on Saturday, plunging the community into grief and disbelief. “It was a shock because he was so well ...

HISTORY, FAITH & DIASPORA The global history of the Black Hebrews—often referred to as the Black Hebrew Israelites—is most commonly framed through African American religious life in the United States.

I love the act of worship. Like anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston, I view worship as an interconnected holistic activity committed to engaging the divine. Worship in my tradition goes ...

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