
Remembering Ahdaiyah, the “Eternal” Hebrew songstress
Although I did not know her well, I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Ahdaiyah and the New Jerusalem Fire Choir several times during my years in Israel.

Although I did not know her well, I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Ahdaiyah and the New Jerusalem Fire Choir several times during my years in Israel.

In the late 1970s, Israel formed a Knesset committee to investigate the “Black Hebrews cult,” a community of non-Jewish African Americans who had been entering the country on tourist visas and settling illegally in the Negev Desert for almost a decade.

An upcoming exhibition in Holon will showcase the regal beauty of this Dimona-based community.

Ketreyah Fouch is the latest singer from the African Hebrew Israelite community to compete on an Israeli reality TV show.

The question of whether or not Hebrew soldiers should be allowed to join combat units was very contentious, and it appears to have driven a wedge between Ben Ammi and Asiel Ben Israel, the group’s former “international ambassador.”