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Significant examples of Black Judaism include Judaism as it is practiced by Ethiopian Jews and African-American Jews. Jews who may be considered Black have existed for millennia, with Zipporah sometimes considered to be one of the first Black Jews who was mentioned within Jewish history. [1] Judaism has been present in sub-Saharan Africa for ...
Matthew taught that "the Black man is a Jew" and "all genuine Jews are Black men", [62] but he valued non-black Jews as those who had preserved Judaism over the centuries. [5] Matthew maintained cordial ties with non-black Jewish leaders in New York and frequently invited them to worship at his synagogue. [63]
Within three years (1948 to 1951), immigration doubled the Jewish population of Israel and left an indelible imprint on Israeli society. [290] [291] Overall, 700,000 Jews settled in Israel during this period. [292] Some 300,000 arrived from Asian and North African nations as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. [293]
Though the question is undecided, some trace the start of a biological interpretation of Jewish origins back as far as the Spanish Inquisition. [12] A tradition of thought and ethnography premised on a hierarchy of racial distinctions, though in retrospect known to be a pseudoscience, was deeply entrenched, indeed ubiquitous, among Western scholars by the early twentieth century. [13]
Among other assertions, the 1983 decree holds that matrilineal descent is not necessary for a person to be considered Jewish. [123] This is in marked contrast to Orthodox Judaism, whose adherents represent around 30% of the Jews in Israel. Orthodox Judaism considers the Jewish people to be a closed ethnoreligious community and consequently ...
The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more." [25] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established for the Egyptians to perceive it as a possible challenge, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state. [26]
The Bedouin of Arabia were the first converts to Islam, and it is an important part of their identity today. [ 9 ] Their outfit is also different from that of other Arabs, since the men wear long ' jellabiya ' and a 'smagg' (red white draped headcover) or 'aymemma' (white headcover) or a white small headdress, sometimes held in place by an ...
Jews lived in Kurdistan for thousands of years, before the final and mass migration in 1951–1952 to Israel. For many years, the Jews lived under the rule of the Ottoman and Persian Empires and following World War I, they mainly lived in Iraq, Iran and Turkey, some Jews lived in Syria.