Balaban is a racist old bag.

WOW, BLACKS CAN’T EVEN GET A BREAK, EVEN IN GRAVE THIS POOR WOMAN IS STILL EXPERIENCING RACISM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh lawwwda mussy

If you read or caught a long lesson of DR.Leonard Jeffries YOUTUBE you find that JEWS in the early 19th cntry funded the removal of weathly African people, by using VATICAN led Armies , out of Medievel Europe’s Black Moorish Empire of Spain and Venice. They also helped the Vatican destroy all records of architecture,science and medicine. As WRITTEN AND TOLD BY MODERN ERA SPAIN ARCHEOLOGISTS. So any of you know, This aint a nation of Islam or Militant rant its a real fact. That old myth that Jews came here with nothing is a Farce. They can be as if not ven more racist than NON- JEWS. Hell yes they can. Jews funded the Portuguese /Spanish and their AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Ships had to be built and not for free. Africans sold us too and let us not forget that either. They hate when we say that and thats too damm bad! We got to tell the truth regardless and fearlessly.

You got that right!

GODHATESBLACKWOMEN +RACIST TROLL
BRENDA JONES+ RACIST TROLL
EYETOTHEWORLD+RACIST TROLL
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HONKYCRACKERREDNECKINBREDF****TTS

Honky’s will never bend and become humans.

Black people are the “Original Jews” so the Black woman had more of a right than anyone to be buried in that cemetery…..

ARE YOU FEELING ALRIGHT SYMONE YOU STATED SOMETHING TRUE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

You , sir , are the racist.

When the Babylonians laid seige against Israel, the Israelites were in a famine. This is how the prophet Jeremiah described it.
Lamentations 5:10 OUR SKIN WAS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN BECAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE FAMINE.
When black people get sick, or starve for a long time, they get darker. When white (Je-wish) or “red” people get sick or don’t eat they get pale.

Along with Cheikh Anta Diop, Alex Darkwah also traces Ancient Egypt to geographical Africa. Darkwah has DNA on his side; whereas, Diop used archeological artifacts, culture, and doc**entary text but was still challenged with his findings which were labeled “untrue” by the scientific world. Darkwah proves that Africans wrote the Bible even though your personal Bible may have pages laced with White Greek characters and distributed throughout the world. I thought that the following excerpts were extremely interesting. A website visitor suggested that I read the Darkwah’s book. Thanks to the website reader who suggested that I limit my research to Sub-Saharan Africa. You’ve started a greater quest to delve deeper into Europe’s concealment of our history and to shed more light on how the global world exists in its current state.

The word Israel itself is an Akan word (Ghana). Darkwah points to the story of Jacob in Genesis 32:24-29, where the angel renames Jacob calling him Asrae or the European version, Israel. Asrae, Darkwah declares, is not the name of a nation, but instead means “the first one who visited.”

According to Darkwah, if you as a Christian question the Bible, you were led by your pastor to believe that you were blaspheming God. Here there is a faith versus reasoning quarrel. Now he has been able to reason into faith. Originally, he just had faith. But, as he learned more, he began to reason himself into faith.

Ethiopia and Egypt are mentioned more than any other countries in the Bible. Ethiopia is known in the Bible as Cush. Egypt is known as Mizraim. Mizraim and Cush are two sons of Ham. Mizraim is translated–Egypt and Cush Ethiopia. Many readers of this website have contacted me to argue that Egypt is a land of White people. They write…I know your view is common among African American studies-types, but it doesn’t seem to be borne out by historical record. The pharaohs and their priests were certainly not Black. Here goes faith vs. reasoning again. The Romans didn’t get to Egypt until 300 BC. We are talking 6000 years before that. There weren’t any white people present before the Rome invasion. The original Christianity of Egypt was established by the apostle Mark in AD 42 in Ethiopia (Coptic Church–Coptic Orthodox Christianity). We have been told Christianity came from Rome. Does everything come from Europe? That is what we have led to believe.

LAND OF THE BLACKS–LAND OF THE BIBLE: Ancient Egypt was known indigenously as Kemet (Land of the Blacks). Ancient Egyptians have pinpointed their own ancestral origins to Mount Rwenzori Range in the east African cradle, otherwise known as “Mountains of the Moon.” Some accounts state Egyptian civilization came out of Ethiopia, which as a term was used to designate the land south of Egypt (the Upper Nile Valley), or alternatively used to refer to the entire African continent. Chronologically, Egypt’s southern neighbor Nubia, which had its own distinct civilization, was the Nile Valley predecessor.

Jews believe they are God’s Chosen People because of a theological idea the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (known in Biblical times as Israelites, later known as Jews) are the chosen people. It comes from the book of Genesis in which God chooses Abraham and his descendants for a unique covenant. The covenant involved certain obligations on the part of the people and promised certain things on the part of God. European Jews believe this covenant is still in effect today—Jews are still a “chosen people.” It may also answer the question why the Jews have been classified White, even with their kinky-bushy hair, swarthy skin, and broadened noses.
The main points of his book are:

Americans and Europeans assume that the Bible is about them, but the Bible is about my ancient ancestors and me…..Alex Darkwah

Modern-day Jews see the Bible as a record of their history because the King James Bible is centered on the history of Israel.

The Jewish people of Europe and America still carry African Tribal names. They carry the names of their ancestors who were Africans.

Statistically, the Lemba people from Southeast Africa are more Jewish than European Jews. In a particular Lemba Clan known as the Buba Clan, 53 percent of the males carry the unique DNA signature of Jewish priests. Males form the Lemba Tribe carry a higher incidence of the Jewish priestly DNA signature than the European and American Jewish population.

When the police have the fingerprints of a wanted man, they know the man whose prints match. The same thing can be said here.

The early Roman Catholic Church portrayed Jesus and his mother in the original Black images of the Jewish people at that time–The Black Madonna. What African tribe were they from?

The time period of the early Catholic Church is closer to the Jews leaving Africa and going to Europe than the Renaissance Painters who painted Jesus White.

What Europe did not count on was that Africans would still know their past.

Darkwah states that ancient Egypt was geographically in Africa and that so called European experts do not know the Ancient Egyptian story because they are not familiar with African tribal names. They do not have the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to identify Egyptian names and have simply transposed the African names of people and places in Ancient Egyptian history into European languages to make it possible for them to claim expertise. Darkwah traces the ancient past of African tribes from the Middle East through Ancient Egypt to inner Africa. He reveals the African tribe that historians gave the fictitious names the Sumerians, Akkadians, and the African Tribes that were the Ancient Egyptians.

Africans are the indigenous Native Hebrews (Jews). The greatest secret of Africa has never been told, and Christian Europe has been seeking to conceal for the past two thousand years is the African origin of the concepts, doctrines, sacramental practices of religion, and the doc**ents that became the foundations of Christianity in Europe. Did you know that the names of Abraham, Isaac, Esau, and Jacob were all derived from African tribal words and names? Did you know that the earliest “Hebrew” name for God, Adonai, was derived from an African tribal word? Did you know that other name of God, Yahweh, was derived from an African tribal God? … Did you know that the names of the authors of the Old Testament are not “Hebrew” or “Jewish” names, but transposed African tribal names? Christian Europe has never known these because it has never known the African linguistic and cultural side of the biblical story.

The indigenous African tribal name of the most popular Ancient Egyptian king the west was Tutu Ankoma—not Tutankhamun. Not only do we know the indigenous African tribal name of this Ancient Egyptian king, but we also know where the modern dynasty of his ancient dynasty is today. We know in Africa that the Ancient Egyptian king who built the middle pyramid in Giza was called Akufu and not Khufu as the experts have told us. We also know that his two sons completed the procession of pyramids and placed a lion in the front of the procession. These sons were Dade Afre and not Djedefra as the experts transposed this name; and his brother was Ochere Afre and not Chephren as the experts have told us. The modern dynasty of these ancient kings is the Akuapem Dynasty that can be found today in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Conservatives, liberals, and all in between can go to check these people out and verify the royal names among these people.

The book is about the Africans who wrote the Bible as well as Ancient Egypt. It is the untold story of the African tribes that were the Ancient Egyptians. It is the untold story of the people from these African tribes that left Ancient Egypt for it to become the biblical Exodus. It is about the untold story of these people that later went to Europe to become the Jews and Hebrews. It is about untold story of the Africans who actually wrote the doc**ents of the Bible before Afrim (Jewish) scholars translated these doc**ents for the Greeks in Ancient Egypt and claimed that their people in Israel wrote those doc**ents.

We in Africa even know the indigenous African tribal name of the people of the Exodus before they went to Europe to become the Jews and Hebrews. A review of a DNA study of Jewish people African tribes discovered one of the African tribes from which some of the people of the Exodus originated. Check it out in the New York Times of May 9, 1999. What does this prove? It proves the Ancient Egyptian and biblical stories were all Black people’s stories.

The Ancient Egyptians were Black people and their modern descendants are alive and well in Africa. Real evidence of the modern descendants of the Ancient Egyptians in the tribes of Africa and the language and culture these people left behind in Ancient Egypt is the most powerful evidence there is about the Black racial origin of the Ancient Egyptians.

In the 1960′s and 1970′s there were Jewish scholars who were secretly traveling around Africa researching African Tribes to find out from which tribe they belonged. They studied the Akan Religion of the Asante people to find out the similarities between Judaism and Christianity. The word Israel was derived from an African Tribal meaning. Most “Jewish” people still carry their African Tribal names of origin.

LOL….Just because I’m not on the DEMOCRATIC PLANTATION does NOT mean I am not aware of what is TRUTH when it concerns the history of Black people.

Oh my, aren’t you getting the hang of “troll swatting”, lol. Kudos, sir. :)

But remember Black People,she’s not a RACIST!!!!BULL S**T ON THAT!!!!

Yeah f**k all 3 of them and Carl C C**t for a chaser.

No,sir, you are the racist.

You know what they say…even the sun shines on a dogs ass some days…lol.

Hot damn,i like that!LOL!!!

If it wasn’t for Wikipedia, your PINK ASS wouldn’t know s**t. FAKER!!!!

“As WRITTEN AND TOLD BY MODERN ERA SPAIN ARCHEOLOGISTS.”

You’re smart. We always have to say information came from a white person, in order to be believed…lol. However, it’s quite interesting that I have never uncovered any NOI’s national spokesman or any NOI publications that lied about history. Yes, quite interesting indeed. Nevertheless, I’ll be sure to check out Dr. Jeffries.

Thanks!

Yeah that’s a handy one. :)

I know you prefer the REPUBLICAN PLANTATION, where Pat Buchanan RULES your PINK ASS and SOUL.

Interesting read…thanks for sharing!

Let the woman rest….squawking about her because she was Black, SMDH……..

betcha miss B***HY wouldn’t mind if SHE was buried in a Black cemetery, because how would she KNOW???!!!!

Dandegirl came up with a GOOD one ;)…….

If she ALLOW that Black lady to rest in thta cemetery, then she WOULDN’T be……who am I kidding????

I normally don’t say this about the elderly, but what a b***h.

LOL @ that one-liner. I’m going to have to steal it.

The nerve of some people…and she wonders why jews are hated….where the f**k does this heifer get off on who and where anyone is buried?

I LOVE YOU SISTA!!!!!! PREACH GOT DAMMIT!!!!

Actually…it is YOU that is racist!

You are too old to be so immature, Sir.

I can see you are still jealous and overly concerned with anything I say but atleast I learn some “Old time slave lingo” today.Thank you ,my elder……

I love what you wrote because you are about the only person here besides myself that has a great understanding of what you wrote.

Unfortunately this story of an “Original Jew” final resting spot has been disrespected by some of our IMMATURE ELDERS and one in particular that felt the need to bring his drama to this post to try and throw shade at me because someone agreed with what I wrote but then again he gets angry at anyone that agrees with what I write,it seems one is too many.It seems there is this “pack” of immature Obama supporters that go around from post to post no matter what the post is about to throw venom because of their worship for Obama.

To all my FREE THINKERS….Keep freeing your mind and let the losers stay in loserville whining about your KNOWLEDGE!

Sir, Dandelion sound like a name a female would use to me so shouldn’t it be ma’am?Just saying.

Mam,Does my name sound like a “Sir” name to you?

Honestly I really could care less as to what that person is,I just thought IT was a man based on it’s masculine energy just like I sense feminine energy from you and I say this due to your choice to be so catty to involve yourself in something that is not your business but then again you do seem “eager to please the most vicious Obamabots just so they won’t attack you “verbally” as they attack me,How is that passive stance working for you? Good job I say and please if you want them to remain “cyber friendly” to you here keep being passive…..

I choose to SOULJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I grew up very close to here. They don’t call it Colchester, they call it CLANchester…for a reason…

Be my guest! Share and share alike. :)

I LOVE YOU BACK SISTA!!!! IF YOU OVERLOOK THE CUSSING, PREACHING IS WHAT I DO!!!! :)

In the words of your Princeton educated best friend Carl C:

Awwwwww Dayum!!! I Sliced it off and Cold Served it to your Chicken Head Ass. LOL!!!!!!!!!

Amen, brother. What i most fear is seeing black people worshipping them, like they are theirs Gods.

She must didn’t realized that when i said Sir i was just saying back to her what she said to you.And she thought i was calling her that.Like i don’t know the difference between a female and a males name.Symone sound like and has always sounded like a females name to me.

That’s one ugly ass blue eye honky please stop scaring the hell out of us with that thing.

White Privilege that’s where the honky gets off on that.

Genetic tests on the Lemba people of southern Africa show convincing evidence the Bantu-speaking tribe may be of Jewish ancestry. [Maybe it would be more accurate to say of “Hebrew” ancestry.]

A team of geneticists have discovered that Lemba men carry a DNA sequence that is distinctive to the Cohanim, a hereditary set of Jewish priests. The priests are different from rabbis, and perform certain ritual roles.

The Lemba, who practice circ**cision, keep one day a week holy and avoid eating pork or pig-like animals, have long asserted they are of Jewish heritage. The discovery of the common DNA sequences stemmed from research being done into the Jewish tradition that priests are the descendants of Aaron, the elder brother of Moses. An analysis of the male Y chromosome found in 1997 that a particular pattern of DNA changes was much more common among Cohanim priests than among lay Jews. A population geneticist at Oxford University in England took that discovery one step further.

“In studying the priesthood, we happened into this tool for distinguishing Jewish from non-Jewish populations.” Unlike in other chromosomes, the genetic material of the Y chromosome remains more or less unchanged from generation to generation, making it a useful tool in discovering heritage, the newspaper reported.

The geneticist found a particular set of genetic mutations that was strongly associated with the priestly caste, not so common among lay Jews and very rare in non-Jewish populations. He then tested DNA samples collected from the Lemba.

This particular chromosomal gene is a distinct signature haplotype of Judaic origin that is similar to what exists in major Jewish populations, who trace their ancestry to the priests of the ancient Jewish Temple, and ultimately to Aaron, the older brother of Moses. This is a significant finding, since only 10% of the main male Jewish population carries this Kohen haplotype, which corroborates the Jewish belief that only ten percent of the population were descendants of Aaron. This Kohen genetic signature is completely absent in gentiles or non-Jewish people.

Lemba males carry a higher concentration of this Jewish priestly DNA chromosome than the European and American Jewish population and therefore more “Jewish” than the European and American Jews. Although the Bhuba tribe has this Kohen haplotype in higher percentages than the Ashkenazi priests, the non-Bhuba Lemba still has the highest percentage of this Kohen haplotype outside of the priestly order of Cohanim. This means that it is still higher than the Ashkenazim and Sephardim groups pooled together. The discovery of these common DNA sequences originated from research conducted by geneticists in the United States, Israel and England.

Naturally this genetic discovery had a greater impact on Jewish communities which had previously rejected the Lemba’s claims of ancestry, more so than on the Lemba who never once doubted their ancient Hebrew-Israelite origin. Research showed that the proportion of Lemba men carrying the genetic signature of the priests were similar to those found among the major Jewish populations, strongly supporting the Lemba tradition of Jewish ancestry.

And the DNA sequences were particularly common among Lemba men who belong to the Buba clan, the senior of their 12 groups. The Lemba, from South Africa and Zimbabwe, believe they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba.

Although the Lemba speak Bantu languages similar to their neighbors, they have specific religious practices similar to those in Judaism. According to the oral history of the Lemba, their ancestors were Jews who came from a place called Sena several hundred years ago and settled in East Africa. According to the research of British researcher Tudor Parfitt, the location of Sena more than likely was in Yemen. The Lemba may have a connection with Great Zimbabwe. In recent times, they have established a synagogue with their own rabbis.

The Lemba have restrictions on intermarriage with non-Lemba, with it being particularly difficult for a male non-Lemba to become a member. The presence among the Lemba of a disproportionate number of men carrying a particular polymorphism on the Y chromosome known as the Cohen modal haplotype suggests an ancestral link to the Jewish population. One sub-clan within the Lemba, the Buba clan, is considered by the Lemba to be their priestly clan. Among the Buba, fifty-two percent of males carry the Cohen modal haplotype, which is found among Jewish Kohanim, or priests. The Lemba also have a large percentage of genes often found in non-Arab Semites.

Newsweek, February 6, 2006

It is interesting and sometimes “puzzling” to observe how certain groups in society remain “blinded” by their own biases in regard to the race of the original Hebrews. I also find it amazing how God can use a group’s own “scientific” studies to expose these same biases and reveal the truth. How does the story of the Lemba people relate to Biblical facts? In religious organizations (both black and white), when the topic of the color or racial origins of the people in the Bible arise, specifically as it relates to Jesus Christ, answers such as “what difference does it make” or “Jesus was of a ‘dark brown’ color” come up. I have even been told that Jesus may have been brown skinned but he was not “African black.” What is “African black” or “of a dark brown” color? Why is it so difficult for whites to associate things of significance and intelligence to Africa and black peoples?. After migrating from North Africa (Israel) to their current location, did their skin somehow change from white to black? How do the Lemba people (who have a larger percentage of the kohen priestly DNA than any other group) relate to Jesus?

Again, it is my goal to point out the facts as they are plainly given in scripture and not just to so called “scientific facts.” Let’s take a look in the Old Testament:

Genesis 35:22b-23; Now the sons of Jacob (Israel) were twelve: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun…

Genesis 29:31-35; And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

And Leah conceived, and bare a son and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also; and she called his name Simeon. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

Genesis 30:16-20; And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah

Keep in mind that Aaron was the older brother of Moses. They were both from the tribe of Levi. The Lemba also come from the tribe of Levi, the priestly tribe and the tribe containing the kohen priestly DNA. The Lemba claim to be the direct descendents of Moses and Aaron and thus, direct descendents of Levi. Levi’s biological brothers and sister which were conceived between Jacob (Israel) and Leah are: Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. Jesus is from the tribe of Judah, one of Levi’s younger brothers. This meant that both Levi and Judah came from the same racial group. If the Lemba (who are direct descendents of Levi) are “African black” then so the same must be true of Jesus who is the direct descendent of Judah. Even though there was intermarriage among the descendents of Judah, their baseline racial group origin stemmed from Jacob and Leah. Again, did the Lemba’s skin color somehow change from white to black during their migration from North Africa (Israel)? This is highly unlikely, if not impossible. Therefore both Jacob and Leah were black, not white.]

Igbo (Ibo) Jews [West Africa]

The Igbo (Ibo) Jews of Nigeria, who some consider a community of “Yehudim Maghrebim” (North and West African Jews, note: Maghreb also means northern Africa, and is not exclusive to Ibos) are the Jewish component of the Igbo (Ibo) ethnic group whom are said to be descended from the southern and westward migrations of both ancient Semitic and later Jewish peoples from the Middle East into West Africa. This migration, said to have started more than 1500 years ago, is believed to have taken deeper roots in the region during the reign of the Dja (Dia) rulers of several Songhai Empire regions.

According to the record Tarikh es Soudan recorded by Abderrahman ben Abdallah es-Sadi (trad. O. Houdas) one such community was formed by a group of Egyptian Jews, who traveled by way of the Sahel corridor through Chad into Mali. Another such community was that of the Dji (Dia) ruler of Koukiya (located near the Niger river), whose name is only known as Dialliaman (or Dia min al Yaman) also called Za-al-Ayaman (meaning “He comes from Yemen”). According to local legends Dialliaman (Za-al-Ayaman) was a member of one of the Jewish colonies transported from Yemen by the Abbysinians in the sixth century C.E. Dialliaman is said to have traveled into West Africa along with his brother, and eventually established a local Jewish community in Northern Nigeria.

Other sources say that other Jewish communities in the region from Morocco, Egypt, Portugal, and possibly even Gojjam Ethiopia made their way into West Africa by way of the Niger. Some communities are said to be connected to the Jewish Berber population like a group of Kal Tamasheq known as Iddao Ishaak of Niger that traveled from North Africa into West Africa for trade, as well as those escaping the Islamic invasions into North Africa and Mali.

According to Igbo lore of the Eri, Nri, and Ozubulu families the Jewish Igbo ethnic groups are comprised of the following 3 lineage types:

Benei Gath: Igbos said to have descended from tribe of Gath ben-Ya`aqov, who was the 8th son of the Israeli patriarch Ya`aqov (Jacob). This lineage is traced though Gath’s son Eri ben-Gath. The clans said to come from this lineage comprise of the Aguleri, Umuleri, Oreri, Enugwu Ikwu, Ogbunike, Awkuzu, Nteje, and Igbariam.

Benei Zevulun: Igbos said to have descended from the tribe of Zevulun ben-Ya`aqov, who was the 5th son of Ya`aqov (Jacob). This lineage comprises of the Ubulu Okiti, Ubulu Ukwu, in Delta State, who settled in Ubulu Ihejiofor. According to tradition, it is said that a descendant of the tribe of Zevulun named Zevulunu, on the advice of a certain Levite, married a woman from Oji, whom descended from the tribe of Judah, and from this union was born Ozubulu ben-Zebulunu. It is said that Ozubulu then went on to have 4 sons of his own who settled into other parts of the region. These sons being: Amakwa, from whom a clan in Neni, Anambra State descended, and Egbema, from whom the Egbema Ugwuta clan in Imo State and the Ohaji Egbema clan in Rivers State descended.

Benei Menash: Igbos whom it is theorized may be descendants of the tribe of Meneshsheh ben-Yoseph, who was one of the grandsons of Ya`aqov (Jacob) through his 11th son Yoseph (Joseph). According to the Torah Jacob claimed both Menashsheh and his brother Ephrayim as his own sons. It is theorized by some that this is the possible lineage of the Amichi, Ichi, Nnewi-Ichi clans.

It is also more than possible that certain Nigerian Jews in the Nri families may be descendants of Levitical (Levite Priests) migrants from Djerba, Tunisia whom were said to have left Judea and settled in North Africa before and after the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem. The most likely scenario is that the ancestors of the Igbos were made up of familiar clans of Israelis and Judeans whom, for various reasons, left Israel before and during the Assyrian and Babylonian sieges. This would explain how their oral tradition contains the specific tribes these clans originated from.

Groups called Godians and Ibrim maintained much of the Jewish traditions of the Igbo Jews. These groups maintained the Jewish traditions that the majority of the communities lost over time due to their isolation from the rest of Nigerian society. Certain Nigerian Jewish communities have been making connections with Jews around the world with the help of Israelis who work in Nigeria, out-reach organizations like Kulanu, and members of the Igbo Jewish community outside Nigeria who underwent Giyyur Khelqi (Orthodox Return conversion to Judaism). Two synagogues in Nigeria were formed by Jews outside Nigeria, and are maintained by Jews in Nigeria.

Because no formal census has been taken in the region, it is unknown how many native Jews reside in Nigeria. There are currently 26 synagogues of various sizes and estimates of possibly as many as 30,000 Igbos practicing Judaism.

Bnai Ephraim

The Bnai Ephraim are different from other Nigerian Jewish groups in that they live among the Yoruba instead of the Igbo people.

The Bnai Ephraim (“Children of Ephraim”) of Nigeria numbered in 1930 about 2000 people in 400 families in 20 small villages in the Ondo district of southwestern Nigeria. According to their traditions, they came to Nigeria by way of Morocco. Their language is a mixture of Moroccan Arabic with Yoruba, but with bits of Aramaic, such as ima for “mother.” In their aspect and most of their customs they cannot be distinguished from their Yoruba neighbors, but the Yoruba call them Emo Yo Quaim – the “Strange People.” They call themselves Bnai Ephraim and keep copies of portions of the Torah in their sanctuaries.

Beta Israel

Total Population: Over 105,000 (est.); significant populations in Israel: 90,000 (est.); Ethiopia: 15,000 (est.). Traditionally, Kayla and Qwara, more recently Amharic; Ge’ez as a liturgical language and now (in Israel) Hebrew as a liturgical and common language. The related ethnic groups are the African Jews, Qemant, Falash Mura.

Falashas

Doctrines

Falasha (Ethiopic for “Stranger”) is the term by which the Jews of Ethiopia are commonly known: they refer to themselves as Beta Isra’el “House of Israel,” never as aihud “Jews.” Most have now left Ethiopia and live in Israel. Their religious beliefs and practices are in many respects so different from orthodoxy that their “Jewishness” was often questioned. They were entirely ignorant of the Mishnah and Talmud tradition. They had no knowledge of Hebrew: prayers and readings from scripture were in Ge’ez, which is also the sacred language of Ethiopian Christians, nor did they observe rabbinic customs concerning the mezuzah and phylacteries. They did observe ritual and dietary laws with great zeal, although these did not include the rabbinic prohibition of eating meat and milk at the same meal. They also kept the Sabbath very strictly. Like the Samaritans, they celebrated the Passover by sacrificing a lamb on the 14th Nisan.

They did not celebrate Purim, however, or (like the Karaites) the popular festival of Hanukkah. In common with other religious groups, including Christians, they practiced male and female circ**cision on the eighth day after birth: the operation was performed by a woman. The Falasha synagogue, known as a masjid (“mosque”), had an altar outside the east doo, and a woman’s court to the south. Male priests known as kohanim officiated in worship, accompanied by the rattling of sistra and the burning of incense. The study of the Bible, especially the Psalms, was led by debreras “scribes.” Among original Falasha works, written in Ge’ez and of unknown date and authorship, are the Commandments of the Sabbath, the Book of Abba Elijah, the Apocalypse of Gorgorios, the Apocalypse of Ezra and the Death of Moses.

History

The origin of the Falashas is unknown. According to their own tradition they are descended from followers of Menelek, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who brought the “ark of the covenant” from Jerusalem to Ethiopia in the tenth century BCE. Others claim they go back to the Assyrian destruction of Samaria and Judah in the eighth century BCE and the subsequent emigration. More likely they are the result of the gradual infiltration of Jewish and Christian elements into South Arabia and East Africa during the first Christian centuries. Only one thing is certain: they broke away from mainstream Judaism before the Mishnah was completed in 200 CE, and it may be significant that they commemorate with a fast the destruction of the First Temple, that is in 586 BCE, but not the Second in 70 CE.

The subsequent history of the Falasha communities in Ethiopia is punctuated by periods of oppression by the Christian authorities, occasional rebellion, and, in one or two cases, conversion to Christianity. They retained their distinctive identity, however, down to the present century. In the 1970s they attracted support from American Jews and, with Israeli military assistance, were gradually rescued from Ethiopia, a country devastated by famine and civil war. More than 8000 reached Israel covertly in 1984, 14,000 in a spectacular 24-hour operation in May 1991 known as “Operation Solomon,” and 4000 in 1992. However, a small number remain in Ethiopia. They were recognized as Jews first by the Sephardi Chief Rabbi in 1973, and then by the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in 1975. There continue to be difficulties in relation to marriage and legitimacy, however, and occasional suspicions of racist attitudes towards this most recent group of new immigrants to Israel.

The Falashas employ the same symbols as other Jewish traditions. However, like other Ethiopians they believe in the power of charms, amulets and incantations.

The Jews of Mali

There are several thousand people of undoubted Jewish ancestry in Timbuktu, Mali. In the 14th century many Moors and Jews, fleeing persecution in Spain, migrated south to the Timbuktu area, at that time part of the Songhai Empire. Among them was the Kehath (Ka’ti) family, descended from Ismael Jan Kot Al-yahudi of Scheida, Morocco. Sons of this prominent family founded three villages that still exist near Timbuktu — Kirshamba, Haybomo, and Kongougara. In 1492, Askia Muhammed came to power in the previously tolerant region of Timbuktu and decreed that Jews must convert to Islam or leave; Judaism became illegal in Mali, as it did in Catholic Spain that same year. As the historian Leo Africanus wrote in 1526: “The king (Askia) is a declared enemy of the Jews. He will not allow any to live in the city. If he hears it said that a Berber merchant frequents them or does business with them, he confiscates his goods.”

The Kehath family converted with the rest of the non-Muslim population. The Cohens, descended from the Moroccan Islamicized Jewish trader El-Hadj Abd-al-Salam al Kuhin, arrived in the Timbuktu area in the 18th century, and the Abana family came in the first half of the 19th century. According to Prof. Michel Abitbol, at the Center for the Research of Moroccan Jewry in Israel, in the late 19th century Rabbi Mordoche Aby Serour traveled to Timbuktu several times as a not-too-successful trader in ostrich feathers and ivory. Ismael Diadie Haidara, a historian from Timbuktu, has found old Hebrew texts among the city’s historical records. He has also researched his own past and discovered that he is descended from the Moroccan Jewish traders of the Abana family. As he interviewed elders in the villages of his relatives, he has discovered that knowledge of the family’s Jewish identity has been preserved, in secret, out of fear of persecution.

Woooow! this is like the lowest to the lowest GGA!

Knowledge!!!!

Not surprising. Most cross-dressers believe others are just as confused as them…lol.

What the hell do a “pack” of immature Obama supporters have to do with a Jew hating on a dead black lady? We’re obsessed, yet you’re the only one talking about Obama. What a delusional hypocrite! For the record, I don’t hate you because you hate Obama. I hate you for being a FAKE WINGNUT POSER who can’t stop quoting that racist ass Pat Buchanan all the time.

Oh and skank, you have smittyboy7 confused with your sucking on anything that hate Obama ass. You can also suck on my masculine energy…I know you want to, stop fronting…lol. ;)

Wow, I’ve heard of the back of the bus but this is ridiculous. Now they want us to get to the back of the bone yard? Well I’m not surprised by this. There is a lot of racism toward us from Ashkenaz. We all remember that incident that happened in Crown Heights all those years ago. Also, go to youtube and watch those son’s of b***hes bad mouth Obama and other “blacks”

Your such a sick ignorant person. I hope you find some peace before you leave this world because you have some serious head trauma.

The only thing you’ve proved is that stupid is alive and well and it’s called Symone.

This person is a “RACIST” up and down. What is it about skin color and makes people senseless. We all bleed the same color blood and we are all children of GOD. Come on people, it is time to stop being so “STUPID and STUPID and STUPID”. The world has evolved, have YOU!!!

When you guys and girls wake up,you will realize they hate you!

I don’t care what she does for a living and she may not technically be a “racist”, per se, but she’s definitely hostile towards and prejudiced against different ethnicities and religions.

I Love the way your mind works ;-)

Thank you ma’am. I’ve peeped you too. May I say, the feeling is mutual. ;-)

I’m appalled at this woman’s behavior. I’m a white Christian but I cannot imagine anyone thinking this was a good idea. From what I’ve read this lady suffered a lot and died at a relatively young age. Let her rest in peace. Considering this woman’s age, I have to wonder if she may have some Alzheimer’s going on.