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Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- A Shabbat service is underway at theGhihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of

Nigeria's federal capital territory.

Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family.

They walk alongside stray goats on a road covered in red dust andpotholes, lined with open sewage. They are nearly 20 kilometersaway from the modern multi-story office buildings and sprawling

mansions in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.

About 50 people gather in the synagogue. They pray from the

Siddur, they read from the Torah and as they chant, Abor's mellowalto begins to rise.

In a country of 162 million people tensions often lead to violentuprisings between Christians and Muslims and being part of thereligious minority can be an issue. But Abor wears his kippah and

his identity with pride.

"I am a Jewish Igbo," he says.

The Igbo are one of Nigeria's largest ethnic groups with populationestimates ranging from 20 to 50 million. Abor is convinced that the

Igbo's ancestors were Jews.

"The son of Yaakov, Jacob, [was] Gad and I learned that he was

among those people who went out o f Israel to exile," Abor says. "Sofrom there he had a son called Eri and a son gave birth to a soncalled Aguleri and that's how the Igbo race began."

From generation to generation, some Igbo have passed down

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Among the Igbo people of Nigeriaexists a s mall group of prac ticingJews

Jewish Igbos believe they aredescendants of 'lost tribes' ofIsrael w ho settled in Nigeria

Some draw many parallelsbetw een Jewish and Igbocustoms

Others claim Igbo civilization isolder than that of the Israelites

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various versions of a migration story framed around

Jacob, a patriarch of Judaism. A popular version of thenarrative holds that Gad, the seventh son of Jacob, hadthree sons who settled in present-day southeastern

Nigeria, which is predominantly inhabited by the Igbo.Those sons, Eri, Arodi and Areli (as mentioned in thebook of Genesis), are said to have fathered clans,

established kingdoms and founded towns still in existencein southeastern Nigeria today, including Owerri, Umuleri, Arochukwuand Aguleri.

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Eze A.E. Chukwuemeka Eri, the king of a community in Aguleri,claims he presides over the throne of Gad's son, Eri.

Wearing a white shirt with the Star of David stitched on the front,King Eri points to a calendar on the wall of his palace that lists thenames of his 33 predecessors. He has no doubts that Eri is his

ancestor. He has even acquired land to establish an educationalcenter for the study of Jewish culture.

"Israelites and Igbos are brothers," he says with a broad smile.

King Eri, like many, claims that the Igbo are the Jews of West Africa.

They believe they are descendants of at least one of Israel's lost

tribes. In the eighth century B.C. the Assyrians invaded Israel'snorthern kingdom forcing 10 tribes into exile. Historians say it is not

unlikely that these tribes migrated westward to Africa.

Throughout history, large populations of dispersed Jews

also became "lost" through forced conversions andcultural assimilation.

"There is evidence that is scientific that the Igbosdescended from the people that evolved in Israel," saysRemy Ilona. He began investigating the stories from his

youth more than a decade ago.

"When I grew up I heard, like virtually every Igbo here,

that the Igbo people came from Israel," the Abuja-basedlawyer says. His field work in Nigeria, Chad, Niger andMali led him to conclude that Igbo and Jewish culture are not just

similar, but "identical."

In his latest book, Ilona draws parallels between Igbo rituals and

customs and those practiced by Jews. Shared traditional practicesinclude circumcising male children eight days after birth, refrainingfrom eating "unclean" or tabooed foods, mourning the dead for

seven days, celebrating the New Moon and conducting weddingceremonies under a canopy. Some historians have noted that theIgbo were practicing these customs before their exposure to the

Bible and missionaries.

Daniel Lis, from the Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Basel,

Switzerland, is one of the foremost researchers on Jewishidentification among the Igbo. He says there has been a clearcontinuity of Jewish identity among the Igbo. "It's not just something

that happened yesterday," he says.

The Swiss-Israeli anthropologist says that Igbo-Jewish

identity can be traced back to the 18th century. Cross-cultural comparisons have been documented by peopleranging from George Thomas Basden, the influential

Anglican missionary and ethnographer who proposed thatthe word "Igbo" evolved as a corruption of the word"Hebrew," to Olaudah Equiano, a freed Igbo slave living in

18th century British society.

The oral stories and historic notations of cultural

resemblances between the Igbo and the Jews haveproven compelling enough to lure a diverse array ofpeople to southeastern Nigeria.

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When I grew up Iheard, likevirtually everyIgbo here, thatthe Igbo peoplecame from Israel.Remy Llona, Niegrian author and lawyer

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Michael Freund, an American Jew based in Israel, is planning his

first trip to Nigeria to get a first-hand look at the culture of the Igbo.

"I've read about them but of course there is nothing like actually

hearing the stories of the people themselves," he says.

Discovering "lost" Jewish communities around the world is what

Freund does.

He is the founder and chairman of the independent non-profit

organization Shavei Israel. According to its media spokesperson Arik

Puder, Shavei Israel is the only organization in Israel that focuses onfinding descendants of the legendary lost tribes.

He says the Israeli government does not recognize ethniccommunities in various countries claiming to be descendants of lost

tribes.

"They cannot prove that they have a Jewish grandfather

or grandmother," Puder says. "But they do have aninteresting story."

Freund says he has received numerous letters andemails from Nigerians trying to connect to Israel. But witha rising number of groups around the world attempting to

link their ancestry to the ancient Israelites, he is aware

that some of those claims are "wishful thinking." He hopesthat the future will yield strong genetic evidence to help

the search for the lost tribes.

"As DNA technology improves there will be a growing

stock of scientific evidence which can perhaps buttressthe claims of an Israeli ancestry," he says.

A 2012 documentary called "Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria"featured the country's Jewish community.

The film featured Rabbi Howard Gorin. He retired from thecongressional rabbinate in 2012 after 32 years as the spiritualleader of a Jewish congregation in the U.S. state of Maryland. Gorin

has played a significant role in the rise of Judaism in Nigeria sincehis first trip to the country in 2004.

"I embrace them and support them as brothers and sisters," hesays. He ships books on Judaism to synagogues in Nigeria.

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More support comes from groups like Kulanu, a New York-based

non-prof it group. Kulanu assists emerging Jewish communitiesaround the world, like the one in Nigeria. But most of the Igbo whopractice Judaism were not born to a Jewish mother and have not

converted according to halakhah, Jewish law, so many OrthodoxJews would not recognize them.

Even among Igbo people, the claim to be Jews elicits strongcriticism. One critic, Catherine Acholonu, attributes Jewishidentification among the Igbo as a result of Christianity brought by

missionaries, since most Igbo people are Christians.

"Everybody is excited to say they belong to the people of

the Bible because the Bible is reigning -- it's in," saysAcholonu, a prominent researcher on Igbo history andculture.

In her award-winning book "They Lived Before Adam"Acholonu proposes that Igbo civilization is older than that

of the Israelites.

She feels that Igbo people are whitewashing their history

and diminishing the value of their own culture byattempting to link their heritage to the Jews.

Peter Agbai, who says he is a "proud Igbo man," stronglydisagrees.

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He started practicing Judaism in 1991 after leaving the Methodist

church. He says that the more he followed the commandments in theTorah, the more he realized that he was doing what his parents hadalways done as followers of traditional Igbo culture and spirituality.

"I have seen that the traditions of our people are similar to those inthe Bible," says the 66-year-old, making references to aspects like

ritual bathing and polygamy.

Agbai is one of the founders of the Ghihon synagogue. He plays an

important role as a spiritual leader in Abuja's community of Igbo

Jews. He attended Abor's bar mitzvah last year, an experience thatAbor says made him feel like a man, and feel closer to the Jewish

culture.

He wants to go deeper into Orthodox Judaism and take a pilgrimage

to the Holy Land.

"I want to live in Israel," Abor says. He hopes that there, he will get a

better understanding of his forefathers.

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okechukwu

we should be proud of whom we are our land is bigger than that of isreal we are

industrious & resourceful why should we even dream of going to isreal where they

will segregate us because of our skin coulor.i don't want to hear this nonsense again

please let the sleeping dog lay.what we need is separation from those santanic

people in nigeria

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Jus tL ie l >

Are you Jewish Nigerian?

It's nice to meet you,I'm exciting to discover your Jewish group.

No one will do nothing to you because of your color,you're Jewish like me,it's

your homeland just as much as it mines,I would like our governement to help

the Igbo Jews to make an Alliyah as we say,you're more than welcomed

here.

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jo ke >

u are a white ashkenazim or khazar 'jew' .. why do u say blacks in

israel are not segregated? they are! quite the foolishness. the only

real hebrews are a black nation, some are because of rape and

marrying other nations white like me, but thats a different story. in

general real israel is a black nations. african americans are hebrew

israelites. 4 corners of the earth..remember. Jesus Yahushuah ia

described by John at revelations 1 as a man with hair like wool

(african hair) and hands and feet in the colour of brass like burning in

a oven. please Jesus wasnt ever a white man with long hair! hebrews

ent into slavery again with ships! why did the slaves knew the

psalms? come on people!!

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JustLiel >

Well all of what you said is incorrect.

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descent).

Jews are semitics,Abraham was semitic he was born in

nowadays Iraq,don't forget Jews were exiled,which means

they wandered all over the world in order to find a place to

settle,so some probably settled in Europe and some in

Africa,but the real Jews as you claim are everyone who has

Jewish mother,regardless to his skin color,because many

Jews had assimilated in the exile as well,so we can't reject

anyone's claim of being Jewish,but you can arrange DNA test

if you want to make sure.Tell me how the Ethiopians Jews are segregated in Israel.

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Fiya_Burnz >

You lack knowledge.

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JustLiel >

Lack of knowledge about what?

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Fiya_Burnz >

All throughout the bible who you are was determined by yourfather not mother, that is a trick your ancestors came up with

to hide who they really are, being a jew and jew-ish is 2

different things, you know exactly what color the messiah was

if you are familiar with scripture every one of the true jews was

a person of color. And still are, the real jews did not wander all

over the world they were scattered, stolen out of africa were

they fled to from the romans, they were sold to their enemies

and went into captivity on ships, now when in the hell did your

ancestors go through that? And the black peopele in israel

now are treated differently I just watched a protest the other

day where the whites were saying they wanted the blacks out

of there.....the ones who moved out there from the states are

placed in a certain area... The lies must stop, your mother hasnothing to do with who you are that is a straight up lie. If the

mother is black and the father is white that child is white, if the

mother is chinese and the father is black that child is black.

You guys are not the jews of the bible, you are converts, plain

and simple.

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JustLiel >

Well first don't teach me about my religion,Jews are semitics

whether you like it or whether you don't,Jews did were

scattered because of their sins by the Assyrians,Babylonians

and Romans,when they wandered in the exile and they did

wandered in the exile some of them assimilated with othergentiles,there are African Jews,like the Ethiopian Jews for

example they have common ancestors as I have,you're

Jewish according to your mother,that's it.

These Africans that illegally infiltrated to Israel are job seekers

and not "refugees" as they claim to be,Israel was established

as an asylum for Jews,so for once they will have their own

country and won't be persecuted.

These Africans who infiltrated to Israel are Muslims and

Christians and they harm the Jewish demographic here in

Israel.

There were protests of people who wanted the infiltrators out

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Fiya_Burnz >

and since when was being a jew a religion? it is a nation of

people not a religion..and we are not semitic we are

see more
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800363565http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800581760http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800285169http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800363565http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800004957http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800285169http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-799824588http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800004957http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-799382002http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-799824588http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#


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shemetic...stop that madness about your mother this and that,

it goes by your father not your mother..the messiah was from

the seed of david not mary, women have no seed.. you will

never be an israelite you are an EDOMITE.

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JustLiel >

Being Jewish is a religion,Judaism is a religion,what can you

do about it? it is what it is,in Judaism you're being recognized

as a Jew according to your mother not father,it's not a

nation,Israel is a nation,Judaism is a religion,if you're mother isJewish you're Jewish that's the rules,real Israelites are

Semitics and not Shemetics as you claim to be,enough with

your lies,you're fooling no one but yourself.

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Fiya_Burnz >

you are finished, you dont even believe in the messiah so you

are done already esau..talking about religion, did the messiah

have a religion? oh yeah you dont believe in him, who in the

bible...that was a holy person had a religion? which one of

them? none of them had a religion, you are a phony and your

day is coming when you will be exposed..

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JustLiel >

How did you conclude in any certain way that I don't believe in

Messiah? what I basically said was that he is yet to arrive,a

faith among most of the Jews,in the time that messiah will

appear the third temple will be built,this is the faith among us

Jews,and not the faith that Jesus is messiah,come on now

give me a break.

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si s >

sorry about that.. i understand your viewpoint,, I am a

christian..married to an Igbo, thank you for explaining yourviewpoint...

si s >

you are not representing God's love..you are operating in

division. calm down

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Sidney Davis >

The people you are corresponding and dialoging with are not

"Jews" by religion. They deny Judaism as a relgion of the

Jewish people because they themselves are "CHRISTIAN."

This is why they do not adhere to halacha and despise Jewishlaw. They are their own invention.

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Fiya_Burnz >

if you are a jew why are you in that land? christ was black he

was a jew, why are you white? Iranian President Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad "ISRAELI'S ARE NOT JEWS"

When the europeans took Israel in 1948 Arab leaders would

not accept them. "you have left black and you returned white,,"

Abdel Gamel Nasser president of the United Arab Republic

1956....you are edomites not israelites...

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JustLiel >

Because my ancestor Abraham wandered and settled in this

land,he was born in Babylon,he was semitic just as the rest of

the Jews.

Jesus was not black and yes he was fully Jew,was born and
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died as one though was perceived as a "ransom" among the

Jews.

Who said I'm white? you just jump to conclusions,if you've

ever been to Israel you would know that most of the Jews are

from Arab descent and most of us are brown,including myself

(Iraqi descent but also Polish descent) you just like the rest of

the Americans, filled with prejudice about us Jews without

verifying your claims.

Most of us Jews are

from:Iraqi,Lebanese,Syrian,Egyptian,Morrocan,Tunisian,Persiadescent and a lot more,there are Jews all over the world.

Jews had never been "black" he probably meant

"brown",semitics,as I said before Jews had wandered all over

the world after they've been exiled so they also settled in

Europe as well,some assimilated some didn't.

We are Israelites and there are DNA tests which prove it.

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Fiya_Burnz >

LOL THE MASHIACH WAS NOT BLACK? Daniel 10:6

6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the

appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and hisarms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the

voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

REVELATION 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they

burned in a furnace;

NO NO NO YOU ARE FLAT OUT WRONG, ONLY REAL

JEW, BY BLOOD ON THIS PLANET ARE DIFFERENT

SHADES OF BROWN NO ARAB, NO EGYPTIAN, NO

AFRICAN, NO EDOMITE, NO YOU ARE PHONIES EVEN IF

YOU DON'T TRULY KNOW IT, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING

ABOUT, JUST STOP THE MADNESS... deuteronomy 28:25

you will find that it seems that God was talking about the blackpeople in america today.First of all, he said that if the israelites

didn`t obey his commands he will put them in Egypt

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silvaokey >

so truth. we know they are imposter asimilation excuss they

are given is falacy.for example african-american have lived in

america for more than 300years why have they not become

white?still they remain blacks and some few mix mulatos they

where only asimilated on culture and language.the real hebrew

people are blacks

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Fiya_Burnz >

that's right...these liars need to be exposed.

4

JustLiel >

You're the liar here,trying to sell your stories to the rest of the

world,fortunately for me no one truly believes it,do you know

why? because today science found that Israelites are semitics

and not blacks like you claim.

Now you and your sect can go make up other stories......

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si s >

God loves everyone.. you guys should stop arguing.. your

practicing a religion with a God who loves everyone, and you

are acting very harshly and prejudice toward one another..

see more
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-802431813http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-925138973http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-802306796http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-802431813http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800878460http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-802306796http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800747301http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800878460http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800596496http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#comment-800747301http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo#


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Fiya_Burnz >

whoa whoa whoa?? have i ever seen a black person with red

hair? HELL YEAH, david was described as being ruddy, that

also means fair skinned i have been around a few light

skinned people with red hair..In Habakkuk 3:13, I believe we

have the greatest demonstration of The Name of JESUS

(Y'SHUA) in the TaNaCH (The Old Testament).

"Thou wentest forth for the salvation [Y'sha - a variant ofY'shua-Jesus] of thy people, even for salvation [Y'SHUA] with

thine anointed [MESSIAH]..."

The term MESSIAH is equal to the English CHRIST or

ANOINTED ONE! Here we can see with much evidence, The

Name of Y'SHUA HA-MASSIACH (JESUS THE CHRIST) in the

Old Testament (TaNaCH), and what's more, He (Y'SHUA) is

doing what Genesis 3:15 had predicted that 'the Seed of the

Woman' would do, and that is, as mentioned in Habakkuk

3:13, "...thou woundest the head out of the house of the

"

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DXRD620 . >

Again the lies of the sour black-supremist-sad-clown... go

learn about the REAL HISTORY of the African nations before

you preach these Ben-Carter's-LIES... The ammount of

Jewish/Israelite (or should I say: "Hebrew/Canaanite") genes

in the whole black continent is so low that it directly disproves

all of your lies AT ONCE.

si s >

there are africans with red hair

si s >

Dude.. color is not significant.. it says nothing about being

passionate about color in the bible or torah..dont waste your

time on vanity

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DXRD620 . >

It is true that we shouldn't be racists like that black-neo-nazi

Fiya over here, but you got to agree that the color of the skin is

an INSEPARABLE parameter from the identification of all

ethnos (especialy the ancient ones).

JustLiel >

Oh and again another thing,Meshiach......which is of course a

descendant of David didn't arrive yet,so yeah I don't think he is

black...

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Fiya_Burnz >

1. King David was a black man?

Earlier this week I was musing on the revelation of the black

race in the scriptures when I remembered that I had read that

David was ruddy. I found two texts in the Book of 1 Samuel.

In the text, God had sent Prophet Samuel to Bethlehem with

the intent of anointing a King to replace Saul:

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all [thy] children? And

he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he

keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and

fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither

see more
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And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy

(admoniy/H 132), [and] withal of a beautiful countenance, and

goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for

this [is] he.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the

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JustLiel >

Alright we'll go over it again,seems like you really have a hardtime understanding,Abraham was semitic (semitics are

mostly brown people) if Abraham was semitic Jacob was

obviously brown as well and also Esau,the Edomites are the

descendants of Esau,we the Israelites are the descendants of

Jacob,we Israelis are brown,most of the Jews in Israel are

brown,these who are white are white because most of their

ancestors were Jews who wandered to Europe and probably

assimilated with gentiles and let's take into account the

climate in Europe as well.

You claim that the origin of Jews is from Khazaria and this

plea was rejected according to reseaches,most of the

Ashkenazi Jews have nothing to do with Jewish Khazars,there

were Jewish Khazars but most of them converted toChristianity,the Khazars were Turks.

There was a mentioning in the Tanakh in "Amos" book which

" " '

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JustLiel >

respond on one of the last comments of mine about your

saying,I explained why there is no possibility of you blacks to

be the real Israelites.

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DXRD620 . >

You are an AFRICAN, NOT AN ISRAELITE, so stop preaching

and lying here, mr. "I'm NOT A JEW but will try to convince the

world I am the real one rather than an African"

JustLiel >

Again? why do you keep arguing when I'm telling you as in

Israeli native that most of the Jews are Mizrahi Jews (Arab

descent) the European Jews are real Jews as a result of

ancestors who settled in Europe just like some settled in

Africa,your theory is very interesting to be honest,but it's just

not true,face it real Jews are semitics,but it doesn't mean that

Africans can't be Jews as well,they can.

DXRD620 . >

They can only in a RELIGIOUS MATTER, NOT BY ETHNIC.

DXRD620 . >

His "theory" is a lame black-sad-clown-supremist LIES about

"their stolen identity" while they're actually the ones that are

staeling our ancestry, shouting like apes across the streets of

the US, they are NOT SO FAR AWAY FROM THE NAZIS!!!

Fiya_Burnz >

You said you.was ashkenaz right? That is white, no jews are

of arab descent arabs come from ishmael. Your ancestor is

esau plain and simple...Think what you want, but you WILL

see that you have been taught lies, and you never was the

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chosen.

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JustLiel >

It doesn't matter if I'm Ashkenazi Jew or Mizrahi Jew,the origin

of Jews is semitic, yeah I have polish descent and Iraqi

descent,which means I'm both,Mizrahis are mostly

brown,ashkenazis are mostly white,but in my father's family

they are Ashkenazis but they are pretty much brown,and as I

said before you have to take into account the climate in

Europe.There are Jews from Arab descent,if you had ever learned

history you'd know that Jews also settled in Arab countries

when they were exiled,those countries weren't even Arabs

until the brutal Islamic conquests journey,you can believe in

what you believe dude,you know I'm right.

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Fiya_Burnz >

The climate has nothing to do with it, if that was the case then

we should have white eskimos. The people in iraq should be

black since it is so hot, every nation on earth is spoken of in

the bible even the ashkenaz it tells you who they came from

and everything. So I know who the people are that went intoslavery on ships, I know who the people are that had their

heritage stolen from them the nation not desired, I know when

we fled into africa and how we got over here, I also know that

hebrews were already here when that happened. I also know

who funded the trans atlantic slave trade, I have seen the

documents with the ship names the captains names and

religion and damn near every one of them were jew-ish. The

cat is out of the bag, the least you could do is admit it.....

When did your people go into bondage on ships, to a land

which they knew not and were sold for bond men and bond

women to their enemies ? That is what happened to the

israelites.....WHEN did it happen to your people?

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JustLiel >

Oh come on are you for real now?

I give you here historical facts about the origin of the Israelites

which are semitics,you can look for it on the web,I brought you

quotes from the tanakh which shows perfectly that the

Israelites weren't blacks and you ignored it,so why more can I

say,you're blind and brainwashed,I guess the sect you are

belonged in did a wonderful job by influencing you with fictions

stories.

Of course the climate has something to do with the skin

colors,the theory is that the Africans are black because it wasonce very hot there and people were really black due to the hot

sun.

Iraq isn't as hot as Sudan and other African countries,let's take

the Mongol race for example,people believe that once,there

were group of people trapped in freezing Siberia if I'm not

mistaken and due to the natural selection they had

1

Fiya_Burnz >

i don't believe your history anything this world say's about

history is the exact opposite, you people are the ultimate

decievers so i believe nothing without finding out for myself,and the holocaust came after our slavery.. and we lost way

more than you...hitler knew you was phonies 2...time

magazine has a bunch of info on that.but, you still did not

answer......what prophecies did you jew-ish people fulfill? you

are better than GOD now, he said we would never see the

land a ain and ou ust sa f-that and move in? eah ou can

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just go there because you are not the people he was talking to

in the book.

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JustLiel >

Jews has always been persecuted way before your slavery

and after your slavery,ever heard about Alhambra decree the

pogroms in Russia,pogroms in Arabs countries,Jews are

persecuted all over the world,simply because the world is anti-

semitic,so even when the Jews had returned to their promised

land and settled there for an asylum,you keep persecuting usand suddenly we see people like you who clearly denying and

ignoring the truth,you can't even exhibit facts like I give you so

how do you expect me to believe you?

It's not about who lost more people,it's not a competition but

excuse me for saying this but slavery is nothing next to burn

someone in gas cells and ovens,he didn't say it,don't invent

"facts",I read somewhere in Elijah version (Nosah Elijah)

where it was written that this was the last exile for us Jews,I

can put on the quote in Hebrew but you won't understand a

thing,so yeah we were promised by god that it will be our last

exile.

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Fiya_Burnz >

lol you dont even speak hebrew you speak yiddish, but that's

neither here nor there, like i said show me what prophecies

your people have fulfilled...you cant do it because you have

fulfilled none...it's ok, think what you want but when the end

comes we shall see who is the true jew. Shalom

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JustLiel >

And here you are again,filled with prejudice,lecturing me about

what I do and what I don't,for your information I don't know

Yiddish even just a bit, only my Polish grandmother knows itand I'm not even sure about it,again like you don't seem to

understand most of the population of Israel are from Arab

descent and the national language is Hebrew.

There are many prophecies which came true and were fulfilled

I will write one,it was written that after years of years that Jews

will be wandering in the exile they will eventually return home,it

happened and Israel is better than ever.

You can keep writing my fr iend,I enjoy reading your laughable

comments.

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DXRD620 . >

Like all other black-nazi-claiming-to-be-Jews, once you ran out

of word you say these pathetic louzy sentences about how

Jews "don't speak Hebrew" (ROFL LOL LMFAO - we invented

this language b*tch XD) and end your angry good-for-nothing

comments with "Shalom" like you even know what it means,

racist-sad-clown...

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