led a group of African-American Jews in Israel who believed they were descended from the biblical tribe of Judah. (JTA) — The spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a group of ...

The community of 3,000 stems from a migration of African-Americans from ... members to be descended from the Tribe of Judah and maintains some traditional Jewish practices. JTA has documented ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

And to which tribe do the Japanese belong ... and that their armies were advancing on Rome. Who are these African-Jewish tribesmen so central to the Prester John legend? These are the Ethiopian ...