One of the suspects identified in Tuesday’s mass shooting in Jersey City, N.J. is believed to be a onetime member of a movement called the Black Hebrew Israelites. The movement, composed of people of ...

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.

An Ohio high school coach and six assistant coaches were fired Thursday over an incident in which they allegedly tried to force a football player to eat a pepperoni pizza despite his religious dietary ...

The Hebrew Israelites believe that black people are descended from a lost Israelite tribe, with some scholars calling the origins of their faith an African American form of Judaism. They developed out ...

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 ...

Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the founder of the African Hebrew Israelites movement, died at age 75 on Dec. 27 in Israel. Born Ben Carter in Chicago in 1939, Ben-Israel said that some black Africans were ...

(JTA) — Conservative-Masorti Judaism strives to accommodate the rich diversity of the Jewish world. A crucial part of this mission is ensuring that Jews of color feel welcome in our communities and ...

Post reporter Princess Jones, pictured here on Friday, attended a sermon at the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ last February. J.C. Rice It was dark when I approached the building on Madison ...

An Ohio teen sat in a lone chair in the middle of his school’s gymnasium last year as his football teammates performed strength and running drills around him. To put an end to the punitive drills, the ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A new Hebrew language public charter school in Washington raises the same questions facing other such schools around the country: How do you teach Hebrew without teaching Judaism?