TEL EL-SAFI, Israel — At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible.

The Black Hebrew Israelites, members of which identify themselves as a historic religious group, has taken center stage after some of its members appeared to be part of a controversial confrontation ...

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Dressed in matching purple hoodies and shirts, with gold fringes attached to the bottom in observance of Deuteronomy 22:12, hundreds of members of a controversial Hebrew Israelite group marched ...

Their story rarely finds its way into the mainstream news. When it does, readers are surprised. A cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama is a black rabbi in Chicago? Generations of African Americans — ...

JERUSALEM - The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a movement that believes some black Americans are the descendants of an ancient Israelite tribe, has died in the southern Israeli ...

The Promised Land also makes some more obscure biblical details memorable, such as when Oholiab (Ash Kahn)—a specialist in ...

As you can see I’ve been writing a number of book reviews and recommendations recently. I plan to do this on an on-going basis. Because I read a lot of history and people seem interested in getting ...

Using cannabis to get ‘high’ is nothing new. In fact, researchers have found evidence that ancient worshipers in Israel may have used the plant to experience God over 2800 years ago. To make the ...

The scarab seal ring carved with the name of Pharaoh Seti I (left) and the sarcophagus uncovered at the Tel Shadud archaeological mound. AP Archaeologists unearthed an ancient coffin in northern ...

(RNS) — On Tuesday (Dec. 10), two men opened fire on a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, ultimately leaving four dead and three wounded in the shooting spree. One of the shooters had ties ...