JTA — Dressed in matching purple hoodies and shirts, with gold fringes attached to the bottom in observance of Deuteronomy 22:12, hundreds of members of a controversial Hebrew Israelite group marched ...
Post reporter Princess Jones, pictured here on Friday, attended a sermon at the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ last February. J.C. Rice It was dark when I approached the building on Madison ...
In recent weeks, America’s racial wounds have been torn open, an uneasy rhythm of violence playing out in the streets and on social media: African-Americans shot dead on camera by police, protests ...
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 ...
In the initial media churn, they were nearly missed. But a small band of Hebrew Israelites, members of a historic but little-known American religious movement, may actually be at the center of a ...
They are sidewalk ministers who use confrontation as their gospel. Hebrew Israelites practice a theology that says God’s chosen ones — black, Hispanic and Native American people — have strayed and ...
(JTA) — Police have identified one of the dead suspects in a shootout at a kosher market in Jersey City as David Anderson, who reportedly was once a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites. Here are ...
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 ...
A man suspected of killing a police officer and three people at a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey, was linked Wednesday to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a law enforcement official said ...