With an elevated profile, Hebrew Israelite groups such as HOI have received significant pushback from organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League - which brand ...

(RNS) — Peace Village in Dimona, Israel, is the largest enclave of African Americans living outside the US. After decades there, some have finally avoided looming deportation. (RNS) — The small ...

DIMONA, Israel (AP) — The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s. Now, dozens of their members are facing the threat of deportation. The ...

Three and a half years after over 50 African Hebrew Israelites from the southern Israel city of Dimona received deportation notices, 43 have received temporary residence, 16 of them with a promise of ...

Lucy Gilbert is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. An extremist group that believes black Americans and other people of color are the real descendants of the ancient ...

At dawn on Tuesday morning, a large group gathered on a mountain in the Negev desert to reenact the moments leading up to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Dressed in robes and flowing dresses, these ...

DIMONA, IsraelDIMONA, Israel — 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, ...

(RNS) — The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem ...