The term "ebinoid Israelites" refers to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group known to espouse anti-Semitic beliefs.
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" One entry said "Hebrew Israelites" took from the "powerful ppl (ebinoid Israelites)" and questioned "why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide.
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" One entry in Thomas' journal said "Hebrew Israelites" took from the "powerful ppl (ebinoid Israelites)" and questioned "why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide.
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Black Hebrew Israelites believe they are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites and believe any other groups identifying as Jews are impostors, an idea rejected by mainstream Judaism.
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Black Hebrew Israelites believe they are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites and believe any other groups identifying as Jews are impostors, an idea rejected by mainstream Judaism.
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The Israelites used rams' horns to crumble the walls of Jericho, but the Israelites must have used bigger — or holier — horns, because the walls of the Jackson Women's Health Organization remain stubbornly intact.
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By 224, Mr. Anderson was ascribing to the ideology of the Black Hebrew Israelites, an extremist sect that thinks of its members as true Israelites, believes Jews are impostors and espouses anti-Semitism.
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Passover celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
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Moses protested when God was going to harm the Israelites.
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According to the bible you are the real Hebrew Israelites.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites have been labeled a hate group.
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The very first Passover took place during the "night of vigil" before the Israelites fled Egypt when, we are taught, the Angel of Death struck down firstborn Egyptians and passed over the Israelites' homes.
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It's the same thing for the Israelites and these false gods.
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He talked of the Israelites wandering the desert for 40 years.
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The ancient Israelites are not only a model of political autonomy.
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Friedman agrees with this consensus — most Israelites did originate in Israel.
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And each — Levites and Israelites — has a distinct name for God.
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Why did the Israelites in Canaan accept them when they arrived?
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The text appeals to the Israelites' memory to intensify their moral obligation.
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Veidt is listening to a song called "The Israelites" by Desmond Dekker.
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The police opened fire, and an estimated 19903 white-robed Israelites were killed.
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The Hebrew Israelites hurled insults at just about everyone who crossed their path.
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Investigators checking shooter's connection to Black Hebrew Israelites and anti-Semitic notes A law enforcement official told the New York Times Wednesday that Anderson appears to have a connection with the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, but the extent is unclear.
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Phillips spoke with multiple publications about the incident, saying he was trying to diffuse a tense situation between the teens and another group nearby, later identified as the Black Hebrew Israelites, who believe they are the descendants of ancient Israelites.
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Even now, on the border of Colombia and Ecuador, there are these Amazonian Israelites.
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It took the Israelites 216 years in the desert to reach the Holy Land.
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"We are Israelites," he says after bread has been broken and the candles lit.
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Millions more of the Igbo tribe believe that they are descended from biblical Israelites.
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The first part of Ezekiel is yet another recounting of all the Israelites' bad deeds.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites appeared to be shouting at both groups in the full video.
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When Moses was asked to lead the Israelites out of Egypt he argued with God.
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As the teenagers began to attack the Black Israelites — and Phillips noted that the Black Israelites also began to say "some harsh things" in retaliation and self-defense — Phillips made a spur of the moment decision to intervene and prevent the situation from escalating further.
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While executing a search warrant at Thomas's home in Greenwood Lake, law enforcement officials found handwritten journals that say the "Hebrew Israelites" took from "powerful ppl (ebinoid Israelites)" and question "why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide," according to court documents.
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So not only did listeners have to put off hearing of the battle of Jephtha and the Israelites against the Ammonites, but the concluding chorus of Israelites also ended musically on a half cadence, the harmonic equivalent of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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"I certainly hope they didn't feel threatened by us," Sandmann said of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Present before and after the entire exchange was a radical activist group called the Black Israelites.
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In 1919, a self-declared Christian prophet, Enoch Mgijima, formed a community calling themselves the Israelites.
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They believe that they are the actual descendants of Israelites in the Bible, not white Jews.
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The much-maligned group is regularly depicted as the enemy of the Israelites in Biblical texts.
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Dmitry Belosselskiy's capacious bass is well suited to the pronouncements of Zaccaria, the Israelites' high priest.
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In the Hebrew Bible, they were the nemeses of the Israelites and sent Goliath to fight David.
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The concepts of freedom, equality, and democracy are common to both our Puritans and the ancient Israelites.
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One of the suspects in the attack may have also had connections to the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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What unites most Black Israelites is the belief that they are the true descendants of biblical Jews.
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While monotheism emerged in fits and starts, Aslan writes, it finally took hold among the ancient Israelites.
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The wayward Israelites scattered at the sight of Gideon and his army, and returned to worshipping the Lord.
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In the Bible, Numbers 15:38, the Israelites are commanded to wear garments with fringes at their corners.
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The Israelites took the transgender trope from their surrounding cultures and wove it into their own sacred scripture.
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Upon the stone, he depicted Black people dancing and celebrating; he also illustrated the exodus of the Israelites.
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But Ms. Beirich said that groups like Hebrew Israelites were also anti-gay, anti-white and anti-Semitic.
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The name El is of Canaanite origin and was used by the indigenous Israelites before the Levites arrived.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites, meanwhile, have said that they are being used as a scapegoat for the students' behavior.
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"In that prayer, I'm going to be recounting God's history of faithfulness to his people, the Israelites," he said.
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Another modest marker in the cemetery notes that 59 "Israelites Victimes Du Nazisme" are buried here, including Samuel Wassermann.
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Law enforcement sources told local outlets that Anderson, and possibly also Graham, were connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Scholars say what unites most Black Israelites is the belief that blacks are the true descendants of biblical Jews.
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Scholars say what unites most Black Israelites is the belief that blacks are the true descendants of biblical Jews.
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Nearby, a group of black Hebrew Israelites were shouting slurs at the boys and Native Americans on the scene.
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Passover starts this Friday, March 30, and celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian enslavement over 3,000 years ago.
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And another, separate, and much smaller, group of protesters linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites have further complicated the storyline.
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Kestenbaum explains: The One Westers saw themselves as radical reformers of earlier generations of Hebrew Israelites who had gone astray.
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Moses foresaw plagues of flies, boils, locusts, and the deaths of firstborn sons, convincing the Pharaoh to free the Israelites.
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The name Mannatech stems from the biblical manna, food provided by God to the Israelites in the desert, and Mrs.
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He said they raised their voices to drown out the Hebrew Israelites' inflammatory statements, not to mock or intimidate Phillips.
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Almost an hour into the video, students are shown amassing in large numbers on the steps behind the Hebrew Israelites.
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The group of African-American men identify themselves in the video as members of the fringe group the Hebrew Israelites.
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Enthusiasts, citing scripture, claim the sheep followed the Israelites to ancient Egypt and then spread out across the ancient world.
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We also looked at a third group in the encounter, the Hebrew Israelites, whose provocative tactics preceded the other confrontation.
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It was originally a Canaanite settlement and was variously ruled later by the Israelites, Egyptians, Romans and Ottomans, among others.
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Scholars say what unites most Black Israelites is the belief that African Americans are the true descendants of biblical Jews.
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Closer look: Officials said Mr. Anderson was associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group.
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Scholars say what unites most Black Israelites is the belief that African-Americans are the true descendants of biblical Jews.
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The Philistines are perhaps best-known as a group the Israelites were fighting in scenes depicted in the Book of Samuel.
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The teens, including Nick, said that they met Phillips and his companions as they were defending themselves from the Black Israelites.
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But when I read the story of Moses freeing the Israelites from the pharaoh, I fell in love with the pharaoh.
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A man looks through scriptures while he and other members of the Black Hebrew Israelites gather on Capitol Hill on Nov.
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On Saturday, Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan, another member of the Black Hebrew Israelites present on Friday, discussed the situation on Facebook Live.
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This Friday is also the first day of Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
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A third group of Black Hebrew Israelites was also reportedly involved and were taunting both the students and the Native Americans.
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The situation had obviously escalated after the racial and homophobic jeers of the religious group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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But like the Israelites' epic return from Egypt, getting the animals to the Middle East has taken much longer than expected.
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Both shooters -- who Ehrie said were not connected to any group, including the Black Hebrew Israelites -- were living in that van.
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One of the suspects in that attack - who died in the shooting - had also expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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The students were met at the Lincoln Memorial by offensive statements from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, the report said.
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Shortly after, he said, the group of Black Hebrew Israelites noticed the group and started yelling at them, referencing their MAGA hats.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites involved argue that they are being unfairly singled out in attempts to excuse the students' treatment of Phillips.
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It's like the Israelites in Egypt when the pharaoh wanted bricks, but you needed straw, and he wouldn't give them any straw.
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But because the arrogant Pharaoh refuses to set the Israelites free, God decides to punish him by sending ten plagues upon Egypt.
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A longer video muddied the waters, offering evidence that the teens were harassed by members of the fringe Black Israelites group beforehand.
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The third wave formed in the 1960s and 1970s, with the first groups calling themselves Black Israelites as opposed to Black Jews.
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The lower image portrays the biblical story in which Moses used the image of the brazen serpent to heal snake-poisoned Israelites.
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Friedman also argues that the Bible's preoccupation with the stranger is not from the Israelites who, after all, already lived in Canaan.
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Longer videos have emerged showing the Hebrew Israelites taunting the students, who then started chanting and shouting, including when Phillips came in.
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Phillips says he was trying to deescalate the scene after seeing tensions flare between the students and a small group of Black Israelites.
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Video also showed that the Black Hebrew Israelites, a radical religious group, were heckling the boys (and numerous other passersby) before Phillips appeared.
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At certain points the Black Hebrew Israelites hurled obscenities at the teens and criticisms of their attire in support of President Donald Trump.
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They force captive apes into servitude in a manner that recalls images of the enslaved Israelites in Egypt being forced to build pyramids.
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As a demonic figure strongly associated with darkness and infanticide, Lilith appeared throughout the ancient legends of the Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites, and Greeks.
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The exiles also appear to have added details on the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt, which paralleled their own trauma in Babylon.
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Then, the Hebrew Israelites return their focus to the students The men continue talking on the video as Phillips disappears from the shot.
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The incident actually started when members of the hate cult — the Black Hebrew Israelites — started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at the boys.
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Some scholars think Guinea worms may have been the fiery serpents said in the Bible to have attacked the Israelites in the desert.
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Moses appears among the terrified Israelites and again in the clouds of the vibrant upper half, beside Jesus in his cocoon of light.
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At least one shooter had ties to the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a law enforcement official.
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The two shooters, linked to a black hate group that considers itself the true Israelites, also killed a policeman before entering the store.
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I heard the teens yelling build the wall and I heard the Hebrew Israelites yelling go back to Europe, which I find ironic.
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Like the Red Sea that parted to allow the Israelites' flight from Egypt, features of the environment could become instrumental in their escapes.
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On the edges of their gathering, a group of four or five African American men who call themselves the Hebrew Israelites taunted his group.
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ARROYO: But here&aposs the amazing thing, if you watch closely, the people surrounding it, these are like the Israelites around the golden calf.
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Even though beer is not all over the Bible—as wine is—beer was in fact brought over from Egypt by the ancient Israelites.
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In the video, Black Israelites, a radical religious group, are seen shouting at the horde of boys, who respond with group chants and taunts.
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Devo's "Mongoloid" and Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" are not merely part of the show's soundtrack, they're cuts from Silk Spectre II's and Ozymandias's record collections.
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He was going through a hard time following his best friend's death, and stumbled across videos for a group called Israelites United in Christ.
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The men identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites, a movement that believes some black Americans are the descendants of an ancient Israelite tribe.
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He said the incident began when a group identifying themselves as the Hebrew Israelites began to shout disparaging and vulgar comments at his group.
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Nick Sandmann, one of the Catholic school students at the center of the controversy, told NBC that he felt threatened by the Hebrew Israelites.
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Moses and Kitch specifically recall not only Beckett's vaudevillians, but also enslaved African-Americans working a plantation and even biblical Israelites escaping from Egypt.
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It depicts a passage from the Book of Numbers, in which the Israelites are being ravaged by snakes for doubting the word of God.
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Every event in their lives marked a stage in the unfolding of a divine plan, which often echoed the experiences of the ancient Israelites.
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While both shooters have expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, neither appear to have established formal links to the movement, Grewal said.
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Still, there's an important element to the relative power represented by the Hebrew Israelites and the students from that mostly-white Catholic high school.
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As told in Judges, Jael freed the Israelites by sneaking into the tent of the enemy commander and driving a stake through his head.
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He adds that a sukkah is also a symbolic nod to the shelters in which the Israelites lived while wandering the desert for 40 years.
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After the video went viral, other videos surfaced showing the lead-up to the standoff, where students were being berated by the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Here's what the video shows: The Hebrew Israelites begin by disparaging the students The new video was shot by a member of the adult group.
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Another video shot before the encounter shows men who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites taunting the students and other passersby with racist slurs.
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And in the Bible, there is a female judge in the Book of Judges: Devora, or Deborah, a prophetess who calls the Israelites to battle.
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Everybody involved in the incident was operating in an emotional and moral context that has been set by the viciousness of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Dr. Stager's field research focused on Canaanites, Phoenicians, Philistines and Israelites as he studied the origins of monotheism and amassed hard evidence of ancient life.
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Officials connected at least one of the suspects to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group.
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In them he used a mostly Latinate language to evoke the trials of the Israelites while quoting the writings of a slave-owning founding father.
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The Exodus story is really the tale of how the people we call Levites left Egypt and joined up with the Israelites already in Canaan.
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Food holds perhaps the most important ritualistic role in the celebration of Passover (or Pesach), the commemoration of the Israelites' emancipation from enslavement in ancient Egypt.
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The Israelites are supposed to love the immigrant because the book of Deuteronomy teaches that the God they worship loves the immigrant (Deuteronomy 10:18-19).
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MIDWAY through Zora Neale Hurston's novel of 24, "Moses, Man of the Mountain", Moses tells the Israelites that God has finally forced Pharaoh to release them.
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At times like Passover, which began Monday night, books are a bridge between Jewish present and past, linking modern Jews with the Israelites who escaped Egypt.
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In it, God sends Moses (perhaps the world's most famous unaccompanied child migrant) to Pharaoh as a truth-teller, to demand the release of the Israelites.
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Phillips said he decided to approach the teens when he saw an escalating situation between them and the Hebrew Israelites, leading to the faceoff with Sandmann.
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Over 3,000 years ago, David's sling was a tool of war used cleverly by the Israelites to fell the giant Goliath and win on the battlefield.
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Hebrew Israelites practice a theology that says God's chosen ones — black, Hispanic and Native American people — have strayed and need to be led back to righteousness.
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He suggested that accounts of the destruction of Jericho by Israelites might have been a "literary embellishment" of a pastoral migration punctuated by sporadic armed conflicts.
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The complaint said his journals also included apparent references to Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe movement the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a hate group.
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Passover, which starts on Friday with a holiday meal known as a seder and ends on April 30, commemorates the flight of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
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Phillips, for his part, explained in interviews that he wanted to separate the students and the Hebrew Israelites, noting that the men were vastly outnumbered by students.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites are an offshoot of a broader religious movement scholars often call Black Israelism, which dates back to slavery and Reconstruction, if not earlier.
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While waiting there, the Black Israelites hurled obscenities at the Covington kids — calling them "dusty ass crackers" and "a bunch of incest babies," among other foul things.
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And that's what lies at the heart of Shavuot celebrations: accepting the word of God, just as the Israelites were believed to have done at Mount Sinai.
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The group of black men, who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites, also shout racist slurs at participants of the Indigenous Peoples Rally and other passersby.
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In a statement, Nick Sandmann said the students decided to raise their voices to drown out the Hebrew Israelites' inflammatory comments -- not to intimidate or mock Phillips.
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I'd like to have the best clam chowder (above) with the kids for dinner tonight in celebration, and to play "Israelites" loud while I clean up afterward.
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Some responded with applause to his reference to the biblical character who threatened the Israelites before being slain by the young shepherd David, who would become king.
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One of the assailants of the deadly attack in Jersey City market has been linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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Last month, a couple — possibly connected to a radical faction of the Black Hebrew Israelites — attacked a Jewish deli in Jersey City, shooting dead three civilians dead.
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A suspect in the deadly attack on a kosher market in Jersey City was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group.
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In the hours after the attack, it came to light that one or both of the shooters were tied to a hate group, the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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The encounter between the black men described as Hebrew Israelites, the students and then with Phillips can be seen in this full-length video, which contains offensive language.
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Fuller video from the day showed that Phillips had stepped between the students and the Black Hebrew Israelites, who had been hurtling insults and obscenities at the students.
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Shavuot actually commemorates two separate events: the harvest of early summer and the presentation of the Torah, the holy text of Judaism, to the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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Phillips, however, claimed to the Detroit Free Press that he put himself "between beast and prey" by standing between the students and a group of Black Hebrew Israelites.
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I've watched over two hours of footage now, showing every angle, close-ups, wide shots and the exchange with the religious group known as the black Hebrew Israelites.
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Perhaps the strangest piece of rape law from the region comes from the Israelites, who made a distinction between what happens in the city and in the field.
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She stunned her mother and father with an announcement that she had decided to dedicate her life to the Black Hebrew Israelites: no school, no stipend, no scholarship.
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I am beginning to feel that I can no longer celebrate the freedom of the Israelites at a home where I am imprisoned by my sister's bossy hostessing.
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It said the students never responded to the Black Hebrew Israelites with racist or offensive statements and never chanted "Build the Wall," as some alleged at the time.
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Videos that emerged later showed that before the teenagers' encounter with the protester, African-American demonstrators who identified themselves as Hebrew Israelites had shouted slurs at the students.
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Phillips told PEOPLE he walked into the group of students after they began chanting back at a handful of Black Hebrew Israelites who were insulting the students and others.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites who were at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18 were not immediately connected to a specific sect, but appear to fit into this latter group.
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Longer footage of the confrontation that later surfaced on Sunday had some shifting blame over the ordeal to a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, who appeared instigate the confrontation.
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Longer footage of the confrontation that later surfaced on Sunday had some shifting blame over the ordeal to a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, who appeared instigate the confrontation.
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Dr. Stager believed that by condemning the worship of calf deities, the early Israelites were seeking to purge their forebears' Canaanite influence and establish themselves as a separate people.
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Information continues to emerge that speaks to the motivation behind this callous crime, including that they reportedly were linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites who hold anti-Semitic beliefs.
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Officials have determined that Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham, followers of the ideology of the Black Hebrew Israelites, an extremist sect that espouses anti-Semitism, had targeted the market.
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The video footage that caught boys from Covington Catholic High School, as they faced off with Phillips and members of the Hebrew Israelites, has proved a national Rorschach test.
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More videos later emerged complicating the story, showing that the encounter had been preceded by African-American protesters, who identified themselves as Hebrew Israelites, shouting slurs at the students.
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More videos later emerged that complicated the story, showing the encounter had been preceded by African-American protesters, who identified themselves as Hebrew Israelites, shouting slurs at the students.
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And it wasn't just him and the Hebrew Israelites — a video surfaced on Twitter purporting to show the Covington boys harassing a group of girls as they walked by.
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Groups from both, as well as a handful of Hebrew Israelites, converged near the Lincoln Memorial, leading to a confrontation that would be shared in viral videos throughout the weekend.
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Phillips says he walked in between the teens and the Black Hebrew Israelites to diffuse tension, according to the New York Times, and seen in the aforementioned longer YouTube video.
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Beyond that, they both commemorate highly significant events in their respective religions (where Pentecost celebrates the arrival of the Holy Spirit, Shavuot celebrates God giving the Torah to the Israelites).
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But the actions of the group of black men who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites add depth to a story many thought was fairly easy to figure out.
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The students later said they had been responding to a group of Hebrew Israelites, and further video footage showed the group had begun screaming invective at them and the activist.
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More videos have shown that the encounter was preceded by taunting from a small group of dark-skinned men who shouted scripture from red books and identified as Hebrew Israelites.
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As the Israelites turned away from their God, they were attacked by Assyrians; America, in modern times, was also attacked by a foreign army from the East, Al Qaeda terrorists.
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After the ancient siege, the Israelites vowed to replant a destroyed sycamore grove with new trees; near ground zero, a huge sycamore tree was also destroyed, as the towers fell.
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, extremists in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement have a "long, strange list of enemies" including white people, Jewish people, and the LBGTQ community.
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He gives his own, novel version of that narrative: that it's a story about a regime that oppresses both Israelites and Egyptians, and that the peoples themselves were not in conflict.
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" In the Book of Numbers, God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites that they are to designate six cities of refuge "so that anyone who kills someone inadvertently may flee there.
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A second video surfaced Sunday showing another group, who identify themselves as members of the Hebrew Israelites, taunting students with disparaging and vulgar language, before the encounter with the Native American.
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Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio.
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One central part of the Passover Seder is reading about the 10 plagues that God imposed on the Egyptians to cause their cruel ruler, the pharaoh, to set the Israelites free.
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During the DeVos interview, the couple talks about a trip to Israel where they learned about a geographical region, called the Shephelah, where battles were fought between the Israelites and Philistines.
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The seder could be an opportunity for other Jewish staff members in the Trump White House to mark the Passover holiday, which celebrates the ancient Israelites' freedom from slavery in Egypt.
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But since Mr. Phillips had supposedly stepped in between the students and the Israelites to diffuse the situation, the students aren't necessarily to blame for the confrontation with the Native Americans.
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The Philistines sent out their great warrior Goliath, challenging the Israelites to put forth a fighter of their own so that the entire conflict would rest on the outcome of the duel.
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Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that sukkahs are meant to mimic the huts or booths that the Israelites lived in while wandering in the desert (thus their impermanence).
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During the Passover seder, 10 drops of wine are poured out for each of the plagues, in a gesture of recognition for what the Egyptians endured before the Israelites were set free.
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The Sukkot holiday celebrates the biblical story of God's protection of the Israelites after their exodus from Egypt and 40-year sojourn in the wilderness, which religious scholars say included the Sinai.
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A second video surfaced Sunday showing another group, which identifies itself as members of the Hebrew Israelites, taunting the mostly white students with disparaging and vulgar language before the encounter with Phillips.
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A second video surfaced on Sunday showing another group, who identify themselves as members of the Hebrew Israelites, taunting students with disparaging and vulgar language before the encounter with the Native American.
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A second video surfaced on Sunday showing another group, who identify themselves as members of the Hebrew Israelites, taunting students with disparaging and vulgar language, before the encounter with the Native American.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, their living room window looks out onto Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, the mountains framing Nablus where, according to the Bible, the Israelites delivered blessings and curses.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites, which has no connection with mainstream Judaism, has been described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy group that tracks such movements.
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Instead, the report found that the teenagers were met at the Lincoln Memorial by offensive statements directed at them by several African-American protesters from a group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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They would troop out to street corners dressed in colorful and ornate capes and leather — vivid imaginings of what ancient Israelites might look like transported into the urban culture of New York City.
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The adaptation, in which Garanca plays Dalila to Alagna's Samson, retells the Old Testament tale of a doomed love affair set in Gaza, with enslaved Israelites suffering under the oppression of the Philistines.
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"Go Down, Moses," based on Old Testament stories of Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, was even reportedly used by Harriet Tubman as a code song while operating the Underground Railroad.
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The visuals feature fantastic beasts and animals as well as more abstract calligraphic flourishes, with a scene of Moses addressing the Israelites added later by the 15th-century scribe-artist Joel ben Simeon.
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The belief system of Black Hebrew Israelites, a sect that is not associated with mainstream Judaism, varies among the dozens of groups into which the century-old theology has splintered over the years.
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The group has been described as a hate group and anti-Semitic, and their members believe they are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites and other groups identifying as Jews are imposters.
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Officials have said that the two, both African-American, were driven by anti-Semitism to attack the kosher store and that they had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe group.
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The student said he and his classmates were subject to abuse by four African-American protestors who were part of a Black Hebrew Israelites group who were also protesting at the Lincoln Memorial.
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When compared to other facets of Black Jewish groups and Black Israelites, this group is largely seen as a fringe sect, and has fractured further since 2000, spawning groups like the House of Israel.
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I've now watched footage of several different angles on the incident closely, ranging from the short clip that first went viral to a nearly two-hour video shot by one of the Black Israelites.
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It was in that circumstance that Philips, clearly well aware of what was going on, decided march into the crowd of Covington students as the radical activist group of Black Israelites egged him on.
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I had thought about it and decided that one would not be entirely crazy, scripturally, to draw a loose comparison between Cam's time in Brenham, Texas, and the Israelites' 40 years in the desert.
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There were also black men who identified themselves as Hebrew Israelites, preaching their beliefs and shouting racially combative comments at the Native Americans and the students, according to witnesses and video on social media.
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Federal prosecutors cited journals they seized from the suspect's home containing references to Adolf Hitler, "Nazi culture" and the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, identified by experts in extremism as an anti-Jewish hate group.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites are known for their inflammatory sidewalk ministers who employ provocation as a form of gospel, preaching a theology that says the chosen ones are black, Native American and Hispanic people.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites, a century-old theology that has split into dozens of semiautonomous groups, believe, in general, that the chosen ones are black, Native American and Hispanic people, but not white people.
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A second video later surfaced showing another group, which identifies itself as members of the Hebrew Israelites, taunting the mostly white students with disparaging and vulgar language before the January 18 encounter with Phillips.
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Even before the Monsey attack, government investigators and researchers at the Anti-Defamation League were examining social media postings linking one of the kosher supermarket assailants to individuals associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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But the Israelites were able to hold on to their traditions and beliefs, sometimes through insularity (the Hebrew Bible is full of passages condemning people who worshipped other cultures' gods) but sometimes through compromise.
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Longer footage from that day shows that Phillips intervened between the students and a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites who had been yelling obscenities at them and criticizing them for their pro-Trump attire.
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In the nearly two-hour video, shot by a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites group, they can be seen yelling and getting into arguments with another Native American man before seeing the Kentucky students.
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"Nothing about the video showing the offensive language of Black Israelites changes how upsetting it was to see the Covington students, and Sandmann in particular, stare at Phillips with such contempt," Wagner wrote on Monday.
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Things escalated when Sandmann's chaperone gave them permission to yell back at the Hebrew Israelites, Sandmann said, adding that none of his classmates said anything racist to the group, most of whom were black men.
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The fringe theology landed in the national spotlight after a viral video surfaced of a group of black Hebrew Israelites profanely clashing with dozens of mostly white Catholic schoolboys wearing "Make America Great Again" caps.
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Federal prosecutors cited journals they seized from the suspect&aposs home containing references to Adolf Hitler, "Nazi culture" and the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, identified by experts in extremism as an anti-Jewish hate group.
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It was brought over from Egypt by the ancient Israelites, according to the Jewish Museum in Munich, which is taking part in 500th anniversary celebrations of the Bavarian Beer Purity Law that regulated Germany's brewing industry.
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Antoinette Nwandu's solution in this searing drama is to weld the story of two black youths in a city like Chicago to spiritual antecedents including enslaved African-Americans, biblical Israelites and Beckett's hobos Vladimir and Estragon.
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She dissected Benjamin Franklin's 1776 Great Seal Design for the United States, which depicts an Egyptian Pharaoh and his troops being overcome by the waters of the Red Sea after the fleeing Israelites passed through safely.
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So it's no caprice on Namdar's part to take seriously the legacy of the destroyed temple, the "ruined house" whose fall sent the Israelites into exile and elevated the rabbis over the priests as Jewish authorities.
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When Morton assumed that the ancient Israelites, who he believed were white, would have never married ancient Egyptians if they were black, he failed to realize that racial prejudice was a "genuine American feeling," Douglass wrote.
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Among the findings: • When Mr. Phillips approached the students, students told investigators, they thought he was coming to join in their school cheers, which they had begun to drown out "offensive statements" by the Hebrew Israelites.
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And, finally, this James Harden insult that is probably, definitely, not PC. "James Harden always looks like he's just about to lead the Israelites through the Red Sea," said Harden, a look of confusion on his face.
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Phillips had approached Sandmann and his classmates beating a ceremonial drum in what he said was a plea for peace amid an escalating situation between the teens and a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites protesting nearby.
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The museum's holdings, including early printed Bibles and (potentially forged) Dead Sea Scrolls, generally focus on the Bible's creation, spread, and influence, and deal less extensively with the ancient Israelites' relationship with other ancient Near Eastern civilizations.
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Phillips confirmed that he was the one who initiated their interaction after witnessing what he considered a looming scuffle between the crowd of white teens and four black members affiliated with the religious group, Black Hebrew Israelites.
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He posted part of a biblical verse, Exodus 1:12, on his Facebook page — "But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread" — referring to the Egyptians' dread of the enslaved Israelites gaining strength.
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He insists there was, just not quite the way the Bible describes; his Exodus story is really the tale of how the people we call Levites left Egypt and joined up with the Israelites already in Canaan.
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His faith mixes elements of Christianity and Judaism and draws deeply from Hebrew Israelite traditions — a complex set of faith groups bound together by a belief that African-Americans are the true descendants of the biblical Israelites.
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Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE, conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile.
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Videos that later surfaced showed Black Hebrew Israelites, a religious group known for trollishly evangelizing in East Coast cities, jeering at the Native Americans as well as the Catholic boys, with remarks that were both racist and homophobic.
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Phillips, a Vietnam-era veteran, said that his drumming and chanting were intended to act as a de-escalation measure and that he inserted himself between the Covington students and the Black Israelites to defuse the tense situation.
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In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Phillips says the members of the Black Hebrew Israelites were "saying some harsh things" — which reportedly included homophobic remarks — and that one of them even spit in the students' direction.
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State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal last month said the attackers had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group unaffiliated with mainstream Judaism and some of whose offshoots the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as hate groups.
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Moses, whose head radiates with hornlike beams of light, directs the Israelites to gaze upon a brass sculpture of a serpent, wound around a cross-like pole at the lower center, just beneath Jesus in the upper half.
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Both attackers, they said, had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a religious movement with dozens of groups that believe, in general, that the chosen ones are black, Native American and Hispanic people, but not white people.
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"Black Hebrew Israelites claim to be from the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who will one day be given dominion by God to rule over the Earth," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
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In a criminal complaint filed last month, they cited journals they seized from the suspect's home containing references to Adolf Hitler, Nazi culture and the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, identified by extremism experts as an anti-Jewish hate group.
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The answer, drawing on the work of some 20th-century scholars like Norman Snaith, could lie in the experience of the Israelites in exile in Babylon, a foundational time in the history of Judaism as we know it today.
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Longer footage from that day, which surfaced over the weekend, shows that Phillips intervened between the students and a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites who had been yelling obscenities at them and criticizing them for their pro-Trump attire.
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Video of the incident shared on Facebook by the the Black Hebrew Israelites corroborates that they were verbally harassing passersby, including some participating in the Indigenous Peoples Rally, for at least an hour before the incident with Covington Catholic students began.
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" The official also noted that "Mongolia is a critical bilateral relationship for the US and the Admin is eager to deepen ties" and noted that Bolton "also visited Jerusalem to meet with Israelites and Russians on this 10 day trip.
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Sandmann later said he was just smiling and trying to defuse the situation, and his attorneys argue a longer version of the video showed the full version of events — including a third party, the Black Hebrew Israelites, berating the students.
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The Haggadah was designed to fulfill the biblical commandment to teach our children about the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt, and it goes about this task with a kind of wisdom and compassion I hope to maintain year-round.
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American white supremacists are influenced by British Israelism, a 19th century interpretation of Christianity that cast Anglo-Saxons as the true Israelites of the Bible; ancient Norse and Icelandic religions; and German National Socialism, which gave Nazis their name, among others.
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Executive-branch Caesarism has been raised to new heights by the last two presidents, and important parts of the country have responded by upping the ante, and — like ancient Israelites in the Book of Samuel — basically clamoring for a king.
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The other clips that have since been released -- in which a group of black men, self-identified as Hebrew Israelites, are seen taunting not only the students but hurling racist slurs at participants of the Indigenous Peoples Rally -- is a reminder.
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Newly discovered video, which came to light after CNN published its first story on the incident, showed the group of black men, who identify themselves as members of the Hebrew Israelites, shouting slurs at the Native Americans and the Catholic students.
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After dipping the greens, herbs and vegetables into the requisite salt water (symbolizing the tears of the enslaved Israelites), I plan to leave the vegetables on the table during dinner, and bring out several of Ms. Rosen's recipes for continued dipping.
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"A lot of the truths of the Bible, it can be a bit much for people to take," said Ash Yasharahla, who lives in New York and belongs to a congregation of Hebrew Israelites known as I Am Israel (No Division).
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In 1683, the leading painter of colonial Mexico painted a stupefying altarpiece for the cathedral of Puebla: a 26-foot showstopper that merged a radiant vision of Jesus' transfiguration into light with a grimmer narrative of Israelites attacked by snakes.
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For example, in Jersey City, the attackers were part of an extremist wing of the Black Hebrew Israelites that believes Jewish people are imposters (as one acolyte put it in 20173, "Negroes are the real Jews") and worthy of death.
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In one clip from Friday, Phillips, 63, can be seen playing a drum and chanting while standing in front of Sandmann — something he later explained was a peaceful prayer trying to diffuse tensions between the students and the group of Black Hebrew Israelites.
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As people reacted to the one video, others sprung to the students' defense, and a subsequently shared video of the event shows the students were earlier taunted by a group identifying themselves as black Israelites, who hurled profane and inflammatory comments at them.
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And citing a widely discredited book from the 1970s by Arthur Koestler called "The Thirteenth Tribe," he posited that Ashkenazi Jews were descended not from the biblical Israelites but from the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the eighth century.
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When the Pittsburgh killer shouted "all Jews must die," he was merely echoing a command uttered in a different tongue by Amalek, the villain who stalked the weakest of the ancient Israelites in the desert on their way to the Promised Land.
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The suspects were a man and a woman who may have been involved in a killing in neighboring Bayonne, N.J. The man was linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group, and had published anti-Semitic posts online.
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Leaning on arcane readings of the early books of the Bible, Mr. Cahn said that just as God visited judgments on the wayward Israelites according to a particular seven-year pattern — something called "the shemitah" — modern catastrophes might follow a similar pattern.
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The result is strangely exhilarating, as she focuses on the theater of persuasion, but she also includes the historical aspects of contemporary Christian Zionism (for instance, Thomas Jefferson designed a "Great Seal" for the US that depicted Americans as Israelites flees the Egyptian Pharoah).
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As our sister site Deadspin noted, though subsequent videos from other angles added almost no new significant context to the scene beyond the presence of apparent Black Hebrew Israelites throwing their own taunts, the ready-made controversy was relentlessly covered by the right-wing media.
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Phillips told the Detroit Free Press that the viral incident was sparked when a crowd of roughly 100 people, including the teenagers seen in the video, gradually splintered off from a March for Life event to confront a nearby group of Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Arabic for "the Castle of the Jews," the name is said to be a reference to the castle-like appearance of a nearby Greek Orthodox monastery and to Jewish belief, which holds that this is where Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
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To many black people, Hebrew Israelites are a harmless part of their communities, said Todd Boyd, a professor of race and pop culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, one of many cities where the group can be seen working the streets.
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A key component of the meal is reciting the 10 plagues — blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the killing of a firstborn — that observers say God imposed on the Egyptians to convince their brutal leader to let the Israelites go.
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In the second video, a group of black men who identified as members of the Black Hebrew Israelites were seen taunting the students from Covington Catholic High School with disparaging language and shouting racist slurs at participants in the Indigenous Peoples Rally and other passersby.
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They're working diligently to paint Phillips as the aggressor when all the elder says he was doing was trying to defuse a situation between the MAGA kids and the Black Israelites who were yelling obscenities at them, which are two entirely different subjects altogether.
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After examining the attackers' social media posts and other evidence, authorities said last week the pair had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group unaffiliated with mainstream Judaism and some of whose offshoots the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as hate groups.
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While the exact beliefs of the Black Hebrew Israelites vary among the groups associated with the movement, followers generally believe that the 224 tribes of Israel defined in the Old Testament are different ethnic groups, or nations, and that white people are not among them.
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In the second video, a group of black men who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites is seen taunting the students from Covington Catholic High School with disparaging language and shouting racist slurs at participants of the Indigenous Peoples Rally and other passersby.
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While the longer video does show the men taunting other march attendees before turning to the students, who begin to chant and yell in response, Phillips has also told media outlets that he had problems with the students even before their confrontation with the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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He stepped between the group of students, who were in D.C. to attend the anti-abortion March for Life rally, and a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites, who had been shouting obscenities at them and criticism of their MAGA hats in support of President Donald Trump.
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The initial narrative was that the boys were harassing Phillips, but there were later more layers added to the story: Longer videos emerged showing a few members of the Black Hebrew Israelites taunting the students, and Phillips says he stepped in to try to defuse the tension.
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Also, several new videos have surfaced, including one showing the students engaging in a "Tomahawk chop," mocking the Native Americans, and another showing a group of Hebrew Israelites hurling slurs and epithets at the teenagers both before Phillips arrived on the scene and after he left.
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The initial narrative was that the boys were harassing Phillips, but more layers were later added to the story: Longer videos emerged showing a few members of the Black Hebrew Israelites taunting the students, and Phillips says he stepped in to try to defuse the tension.
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The longer video shows a group of Black Hebrew Israelites — a fringe organization whose members have been known to espouse racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-gay views — targeting and shouting at the Indigenous Peoples March attendees and tourists at the Lincoln Memorial before the high school students arrive.
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Even in the heat of the moment, when members of the national group known as the Hebrew Israelites were hurling slurs at the students, it seems unbelievable that the student's chaperons didn't intervene to stop them from jeering or making tomahawk gestures at a 7.5-year old tribal elder.
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The church said an "independent, third-party investigation" is set to begin this week into last's week altercation between a group of Native American activists, a group of Black Hebrew Israelites and group of Covington students who were in Washington, D.C., for the anti-abortion March for Life rally.
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Forty is one of those biblical numbers that means a long time and is linked to periods of trial, like the 40 days and nights that the torrential rains floated Noah's ark, and the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the desert after escaping the pharaoh's clutches.
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Lawrence E. Stager, a pre-eminent American archaeologist who unearthed evidence that anxious ancient Israelites sinned by worshiping a "golden calf," just as the Bible said, and who helped redeem the vulgar reputation of Goliath and his fellow Philistines, died on Friday at his home in Concord, Mass.
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In spring our thoughts often turn to eggs, especially those of us who celebrate Easter, with its customs of egg "hunts" and decorating; and Passover, which traditionally features a hard-cooked egg dipped in saltwater before the start of the Seder feast to remember the tears of Israelites.
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"They mostly trade in anti-Semitism; they view Jews as impostors," said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups and has labeled Black Hebrew Israelites as a hate group, because, it says, their ideology is informed by bigotry.
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Anderson looked "like he was mad with the world all the time," former neighbor says New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Anderson and Graham expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, but authorities have not found any definitive links between them and that organization or other group.
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"Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby," Soave wrote.
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Eating vegan has long been a practice, especially for followers of religious and spiritual movements like Rastafarianism and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, a religious group with black nationalist underpinnings that rose up in the 1960s and still runs a chain of vegan restaurants in cities like Atlanta; Tallahassee, Fla.
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