Hebrew Israelites have been in the news a lot this year. In January, a group called House of Israel provoked a confrontation between Catholic high school students from Kentucky and Native American ...

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 ...

Their story rarely finds its way into the mainstream news. When it does, readers are surprised. A cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama is a black rabbi in Chicago? Generations of African Americans — ...

The Israelites then begin reminiscing about Egypt. This is perhaps the most Jewish passage in the entire Torah. We have just ...

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 ...

Outside of Barclays Center on Sunday, hours before the Brooklyn Nets' game against the Memphis Grizzlies, a large crowd of Black Hebrew Israelites gathered in support of Kyrie Irving, who returned ...

As the days brighten and spring kicks into full swing, Jews all over the world prepare for Passover, a weeklong holiday that is one of Judaism’s most widely celebrated and most important observances.

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 ...