Black Jews have been a part of American history since before the colonial era. In fact, Jews of Roman-African or Afro-Caribbean descent, of diverse lineage, or who have converted continue to contribute to the rich and multi-faceted history of the Jewish people.
Today, some of these Jews of Color have come together in communities and organizations to bring them out of the margins and into the mainstream of American Jewry.
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So some of them are not ethnically Jewish even if they are religiously Jewish. They're like Ruth from the OT; they converted. I would not say "these people are Jews" so much as I would say "these people practice Judaism." Imagine if I married you and I called myself black by marriage. I would get laughed at, or at best, laughed with.
Of course, I'm not disputing say, Beta Israel. Nor is it impossible that some black Americans are Jewish by virtue of mixed marriage. Or, even, descending from one of the phenotypically black Jewish groups that actually descend from ancient Israel. But in my mind, somebody who converts to Judaism as a strictly religious choice is more comparable to a Christian who rejects the new testament. I welcome anybody to join us, but be careful not to appropriate a label that doesn't actually describe you. You have to belong to a group that can trace its genetic origins back to ancient Israel in order to be "a Jew," rather than just "practicing Judaism."
2.18 I think it was a jew from west Africa rather than Etiopian (the first american black jew)
Plain stupid makes no sense.
Genesis 37:27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content
WHO WAS SOLD?
Joseph was sold into Egypt by his brothers, the children of Israel/Jacob
Jacob had a twin brother Esau, but it was the children of Jacob who sold humans
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Joel 3:6-9 The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it
Holy Bible
Through my studies a Jew come from the mantle of his father. An a Jewish person follows the belief and lifestyle. (In the dictionary ( ish) means kind of sorter alike but not original)๐ค
They skipped so many facts prime example of a little truth with a lot of lies
I'm just going to come out and say it it's no such thing as a white Jew the society has created white Jewish men… Who consider walking the faith
Title Jew of color let's correct that to the original Jew.
Bravo for a beautiful summery of the correct grounds of diversity within the Jewish identity framework.
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Forgot to tell about the discrimination between the white Jews and black Jews, many white Jewish synagogues didn't allow blacks inside, didn't allow them into their neighborhoods and often participated in the violence against blacks.
Revelations 2:9 & 3:9! Know this black people of the Americas and Caribbean are the children of Israel not those Ashkenazi's. The Beaufort contract 1948! Abdul Gal Nassah exposed the fake Jews as well look it up do your research before saying Jews are not a color
Very informative but watered down for acceptance.
Roman Africa wasn't Black sweaty, they looked like modern day Tunisians, Sicilians, Maltese, Algerians, Libyans. Stop erasing Mizrachi history (Israelite Jews of MENA).
A bunch of garbage๐.
Why do people of Jewish faith refer to their religion as an ethnicity?
One is born a Jew from Jewish parents conversion doesnโt make one anJew. The tribe of Judah are the Jews. Whether black or white
Damn them all, damn you the rest of this day you brought us together
You need to execute diligent research as the actual name to identify is not โJewishโ as no โJโ ever existed b4 the 16th century. Those transported during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are the true โHebrew Israelitesโ of the Bible who were scattered to the 4 corners of this universe. Those calling themselves โJewsโ today are Khazars (Askenazis) (converts from Eastern Europe who converted to Judaism in 740 AD under their then King Bulan, for political reasons. Those residing in Palestine today are โimpostersโ who have stolen a heritage that did NOT ever belong to them,but to those descendants of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, whereby they were deliberately separated by tribe/nation so that they would not be able to communicate, hate one another, forget who they were and finally Christianized. All by design. Psalm 83 tells who the perpetrators were and Deuteronomy 28: 16-68 provides the history which has been hidden for 400+ years. TMH has awakened the Tribe of Israel, in these last days. Blacks in America and those scattered to the 4 corners of this universe are the true โchosenโ people of the Most High. The lie was dressed well, but has been uncovered. As for โIsraelโ , it is NOT a country, rather a PEOPLE descendants of Jacob, Abrahamโs son. The country claiming โIsraelโ is Palestine. HalleluYAH & Amen! Shalom Shalom.
Alot of misinforming.. like a lot
ask yourself this : In what language did God write the Ten Commandments? Hebrew written language did not exist when the so called exodus happened
according to mainstream history Moises grew up as an Egyptian , so he spoke Egyptian , why will God write the 10 commandments in Hebrew while Moises could not understand.
As an Ethiopian jew , i left Israel when i found out its all a fraud , its all BS history.
YT kept removing my comments. cause they want you to think like mainstream. lies and lies never want people to know the real history of the world .. its really sad
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Ethiopian jews and ethiopians at all were not slaves of no one
You look pretty Jewish to me
Interesting video!
ORIGINAL JEWS BLACK.. KING DAVID, BLACK. JUSUS BLACK
Black people tryna be a guest in their own heritage
There can be billions of white or black Jews. It doesn't matter. All it goes down to is who is the offsprings of Jacob. Then you will naturally understand that Israel is a black nation. All of the rest is poetry. A beautiful empty shell
Ashkenazim aren't Eastern European. Like all other Jews, we are at least half Levantine/Israelite. The other half is almost all Northern Italian, with a little bit of Northern European. This person's mother wasn't Eastern European at all. This whole video is an attack on the mother's ethnicity, and therefore the speaker herself (as she shares that ethnicity). All Jews are multiracial. There is no such thing as a born Jew that isn't Middle Eastern. "Of color" is literally a statement that means from Asia or Africa, EXCEPT FOR JEWS. It's by definition antisemitic, and it's nature is neo-nazism. This video is a shonda to the extreme. These "Black Lives Matter" and other leftist groups don't represent Black people. This person is also practicing a form of White supremacy, by appropriating Black people for their extremist politics. Nazism always -> White supremacy. Saying Jewish organizations are White supremacist is also just flat out antisemitism, and we see here how they have created the false statement.
๐ holy crap, the worst of the worst, did exist. Fucking wow.
we dont have to be jewish, because we are actually Hebrews !!๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
I'm Hebrew not Jewish. that's a made up European word.
Iโm not ish anything but the Hebrews the Bible speaks of.
Saying โblack jewsโ is like say โwhite Caucasianโ it donโt make sense.
Good job on at least raising the eyebrows of the Hebrews that are scattered to the 4 corners of the earth via the slave trade.