Can anybody tell me about the African Hebrew Israelites?  I have a friend who's one and he wants me to learn.
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"""Calling themselves the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, their origins are rooted in their charismatic leader, Ben Ammi Ben Israel. Ben Ammi, who was a foundry worker named Ben Carter in Chicago, had a vision in 1966 that his African ancestors were descended from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel."""\n---\n"""The strange group is led by Ben Carter a former Chicago resident who now calls himself “Ben Ammi Ben Israel”\n\nCarter claims that the ”Archangel Gabriel told him that many African Americans were descendants of the lost Israeli tribe of Judah.” He led some followers to settle in Israel during 1969, but they didn’t receive permanent residence status until 2003.\n\nThe “Black Hebrews” have been linked to crime and the death of a child."""\n---\n"""One of Carter’s henchmen was found guilty of “operating an international crime ring” in 1986 and just last year a couple was charged with manslaughter. And the death of their baby was allegedly tied to the group’s strange diet."""
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hold on... i've seen places where you can read some midrashim online... gotta find it though\n\nhere:\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm\n\napparently adam and chava looked 20 when they were created :)
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They might not like it they would want anyone trying to be like them. But I don't see why not but most rastafarians believe in being descendants of ancient Isreal. The Ethiopian thing they got going on is just a misunderstanding. They don't cut their hair and "let the locks of the hairs of their head grow."
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.(1) It is .etymologically, the name “Hebrews” seems to mean “those who pass from place to place” or “nomads”, a designation applied to them by the Amorites.\n\n(2) In addition to that, it is generally assumed, although denied by some scholars, that the Hebrews are the people called “abiru” or “Habiri” in cuneiform tablets dating from 1400 BC found at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt.
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I would find a book on African- American history, or, more specifically, African-American religion. You should have no trouble finding sources for this, or searching under these topics for online info. The African-American (Negro) spirituals go back to this time, and you should be able to find much material on this too.
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go to www.africa.upenn.edu/org_Institutes/African_12088.html
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check out any infor about the Yoruba religion and the Orishas
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If you want a full answer, you have to visit "Judaism 101" at www.jewfaq.com
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The Bible was written mostly by the Jews, and you can see this sometimes in the way they inflate their own numbers, but for all that, the Jews have often been the losers.  I mean, the whole business in Egypt was perhaps the most prominent enslavement, but it was certainly not the last.  To their mentality, they were opressed under the Romans too, and many times in between.  Yet for all that, they stuck to God and upheld him as a good and just god.  It's amazing how faithful these "losers" are.  Perhaps it means something.
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First it started with their leader, Moses, who received the Ten Commandments. He felt that the people could not handle them --they just came out of Egypt and had been there for 430 years, being quite used to Egyptian ways [worshipping Baal, incest, etc.]. \n\nSo Moses asked if, rather than the people transgressing The Law during their cleansing period of 40 years in the desert [about two generations worth], if he could come up with 100 laws for his people --they became the Mosaic Laws that the Jewish people had to abide by. Moses was the Judge to make the final decisions. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth...", food selections, etc. that type of thing.\n\nMoses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land for his own transgression so Jacob took over and led the people across the River and into Jordan. Jacob became the Judge... then on and on and on, the other Judges followed the same Mosaic laws until the time of the Pharisees and the Sadducees who,  by the time of Jesus, had expanded Mosaic laws from 100 to 1,000 different man-made laws.\n\nOther than that, the Book of Judges talks about what followed next when the Jews entered the Promised Land. Then the prophet Samuel consecrated the first Jewish king, King Saul. Next, came David... and that would be under the Books of Kings. [Samuel I &  II; Kings I & II; etc.]\n\nHappy reading!
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Here is the Wikipedia explanation, including other Biblical references to them that explain why they were not regarded as good buddies to the Israelites:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek
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Do you mean Hebrews or Israelites, Jews an a Israelites are different. A Jew is anyone who relgion is Judaism, it not a race but a religion. Jew is in the Bible but it's a mistranslation, everytime "Jew" is used in the Bible it should read Judah. Judah is one of the 12 tribes of Israel, so calling ALL Israelites Jews is incorrect. Moses was from the tribe Levi not Judah so that means that he wasn't a Jew, Abraham counldn't a descendant of his own great great grandson so he wasn't a Jew ethier. The name Jew should have never even appear in the English translation.\n\nToday many Jews are white, ask ANY Jew, what does it take to be a Jew. They will tell you to convert to Judaism or if your moms a Jew, then your Jewish.\n\nNONE of them will tell you that to be a Israelites you HAVE to be a decsendant of one of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel.\nNote all through out scripture the Bible says that genology is ONLY pass through the FATHER never the mom/wife.\n\nWith that been said Jews are not Israelites and Israelites are not Jews. \n\nTO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: Todays most Jews are descendants of Ashkenaz and Khazar tribes Both are decsendants of Japhet, Genesis 10 1-5 with are European tribes, which is why todays Jews are white. Until when find some evidences of what Isrealites looked like and can proven they are Israelites, then we would know what color they are.
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Actually, you come very close!  I suggest an excellent book, "Idioms of the Bible", the author's name is beyond me for now.  It was created by  a Bible scholar who is very familiar with both modern and ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and has done some wonderful research in various areas relating to the Bible and religion.
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I'm not Jewish, but I know a helluva lot about them, if no actual Jewish persons offer--I'm your man.\n\nMessage me.
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I suggest you guys try and ignore this mouthbreather.  He asks the same questions on Judaism over and over again, with slightly different (though consistently biased and misleading) wording. If you don't believe me, all I can say is that you can verify this for yourselves.  I sincerely doubt that he is here to learn anything, at least in this area (though I feel obliged to at least commend him on his appropriate choice of screenname).\n\nThis guy's online hobby is something called Jew-baiting.  So don't take the bait, as it were, by responding on his terms and lending legitimacy to his line of questioning (which is shallow and insensitive at best, or, more likely from what I've seen, deliberate bigotry).  He has a real problem with Jews.  I don't know if it stems from a negative personal experience with Jews, or if he was raised by klansmen, or what.  But he keeps asking these same questions, and when confronted with information that contradicts his assumptions, he becomes belligerent and disregards the new information anyway.\n\nI once explained to him that he was mistaken in his assertion that a Jew had to have "Jewish blood" because conversion has a history going back through biblical history, all the way to the first Hebrew himself.  This did not sway him in his irrational belief.  And if someone here were to point out that calling Judaism a "cult of ancestor worship" is inaccurate because\n\na) it's not considered a cult\n\nand\n\nb) worshipping anything other than G-d, one's ancestors included, is the most severe form of blasphemy according to Judaism\n\nI highly doubt this gentleman would be swayed on either point.  My advice is not to waste your time.  There are plenty of people on here asking questions about Judaism because they actually want to learn.  If you are qualified to answer, answer those people.  They'll actually benefit from it.
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aliens in the bible article\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/ca/Message/aliens.html
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Please refer \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild, \nand also\nhttp://www.biblebelievers.org.au/slavery.htm\nBest 'o Luck !