Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...

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 ...

Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat marks a new moon and a new spiritual cycle. In Jewish tradition, the new moon carries the seed of the ...

Israel plans to bring thousands of Indians who identify as descendants of the biblical Tribe of Manasseh to the country over the coming years, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. The ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a lost biblical Jewish tribe emigrated to Israel on Monday from their village in northeastern India, celebrating their arrival after ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

The police arrested the owner of the store in Keyport, N.J., on criminal weapons charges. By Christina Goldbaum and Ashley Southall Inside the harrowing rampage that left a police officer and three ...

Joan Taylor has received funding from the Commonwealth scholarships and Fulbright schemes, the Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme and various academic societies. In terms of religious faith she is a Quaker.

(RNS) — Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to ...

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 to have ...

A demolition crew on Monday brought an end to services ever resuming at the building housing Congregation B’nai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael in Brooklyn. Leaders of the Hebrew Israelite congregation had ...