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 ...

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 ...

DIMONA, Israel (AP) — For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been ...

The police arrested the owner of the store in Keyport, N.J., on criminal weapons charges. By Christina Goldbaum and Ashley Southall Inside the harrowing rampage that left a police officer and three ...

What are the Myths, Facts, About Hebrew Israelites? This blog highlights and summarizes an article by Robin Washington for Forward. The article features Bruce Haynes, a professor of sociology at the ...

Last April, Israel’s Interior Ministry sent letters threatening 51 members of our community — including those for whom Israel is the only home they’ve ever known — with deportation within 60 days.

Did you catch the press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denouncing the slander against the International Israelite Board of Rabbis (IIBR), a Black rabbinical organization, by leaders of ...

The film “selah” was created by Casey Rispoli of Altoona, the only Jewish student who traveled with his documentary class to Israel last year to visit the Village of Peace settlement in Dimona, Israel ...

CANTON – A local family has said it is planning to sue Canton City Schools amid allegations that their son, a member of McKinley High School's football team, was mistreated because of his religion.

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 ...