A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

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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 ...

Did you ever stop and think about why we are called “Jews” and our religion “Judaism”? File this one under the category of things I took for granted until I decided to explore beyond the name.

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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 town where he ...

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. He was 75. Ben Ammi Ben Israel ...