KEMET VS ISRAEL

[history91]

It's looking like European Jews are mostly converts to the religion.

[Ish Gebor]

May 6, 2016 17:17:15 GMT -5 history91 said:

It's looking like European Jews are mostly converts to the religion.

Yawn, repost.

"... Conversion to Judaism was common in Rome in the first centuries BC and AD. Judaism gained many followers among all ranks of Roman Society [10-13]. ..."

[history91]

Doesn't this article prove the ancient Israelites were white?

www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-historys-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

[history91]

This guy believes the horn of Africa had nothing to do with Ancient Israelites/Jews.

anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-jewishness-of-ethiopian-jews_7.html?m=1

[history91]

Why hasn't the ancient Judeans DNA never been sequenced?

khazardnaproject.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/responding-to-the-criticism-for-des-et-al-2016/s

[Ish Gebor]

Read on Jews of Bilad el-Sudan

Lost Jews of Africa

Filmmaker Laurence Gavron is on a journey to document lost Jewish tribes in Africa.

The French-born Gavron, who has made Senegal her home since 1989, says she was immediately taken by the project, which she says combines her passion for Africa with the mystery of rediscovering Judaism.


Laurence Gavron

The film, titled “Black Jews, Juifs noir en Afrique,” focuses on a dozen African tribes – in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and other countries – each with a Jewish story. Some claim to be descendants of the Bible’s 10 Lost Tribes. Others believe that their ancestors were Jews who emigrated from Judea to Yemen looking for gold.

Rabbinical authorities have not accepted any of the groups as Jewish under halachah, Jewish law, although all the tribes strive to be recognized as such at some level or another.

Edith Bruder, who has been studying these Jewish groups for more than a decade and wrote the book “The black Jews of Africa, history, identity, religion,” turned to Gavron for the film, which is expected to be released in the coming months.


“In sub-Saharan Africa, you can find ‘Judaic’ tribes in Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Uganda, Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe and even in Sao Tome and other countries. There are many of them,” Bruder said. “It is really a vast subject.”

The two women are documenting Sabbath celebrations in remote African villages, Ghanaian Jews practicing circumcision and Jewish-African traditional marriage ceremonies. They have even been deep into the forests filming black Jews preparing their “kosher” meals – in their own tradition, the way the Torah explains it simply – not mixing the meat of the veal with its mother’s cow milk.

Filming a Shabbat service in Ghana was a moving experience, Gavron says.

“At the end, really very touched and almost started crying,” she said.

The French connection between Bruder and Gavron seems almost predestined: Gavron with her fascination for Africa and for her Jewish roots, and Bruder’s researching of “Jewish-related subjects” for most of her academic career. Their producer, too, is French: Anne Schushman of Scuch Productions.

“I am very interested in Jewish people, being one, and in blacks, living in Africa and having become Senegalese,” Gavron said. “So black Jews is something that was more than perfect for me.”

In the introduction to her documentary project, Gavron writes, “Who has the right to proclaim himself a Jew? Who can assert his connection to Judaism? Are these black Jews really a part of the Jewish people? And if not, why do they wish to be included?”

Her own connection to Judaism – a sense of peoplehood and culture – has mostly been background music, she says, and making the film has “rekindled” those feelings.

Gavron, who keeps busy making films, writing detective stories, organizing cultural evenings, making video clips and curating photo expositions, among other pursuits, recently made history in her adopted homeland. In July, she became the first woman toubab – Senegalese naturalized white person – to be on an electoral list for parliament. With a victory, she would have become the first Jewish member of Senegal’s parliament.

Gavron, 57, hadn’t given much thought to political involvement in the Muslim-dominated country until just a few months ago. At a cocktail party in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, she began speaking to Mamadou Lamine Diallo, who heads Tekki, a left-wing party.

“I told him how much I share with him the values defended by his party: transparency, citizenship activism and ethics,” she said. “He immediately asked me if I cared to join as a candidate for the upcoming elections.”

The offer “enchanted me,” Gavron said. “I felt it was a wonderful way to repay this country, which has embraced me without any restraint or hesitation. It is my way to pay my gratitude back to the Senegalese people.

Gavron was able to run only because the Senegalese parliament adopting an equal gender representation act two years ago, obliging political parties to present an equal number of male and female candidates. And although she did not win the election, the experience convinced her to remain politically active – and she believes the results would be different the next time around.

Senegal has undergone significant changes in the past three years, most recently choosing Macky Sall as president over incumbent Abdoulaye Wade, who was criticized for his grandiose living style. That, along with the new laws designed to promote gender equality, may well play in Gavron’s favor in the next elections.

As to her ”home party,” Gavron is the perfect match for what Tekki is striving to achieve, says El Hadrji Sarr, a Tekki leader who supported Gavron’s candidacy.

”Laurence is a Senegalese in every means and ways, even though she is white,” he said. “She has a natural place within our electoral list.”

Gavron has long split her time among France, Africa and Israel. Although a Senegal citizen who makes her permanent home in Dakar, she says that when she visits Paris, she suddenly feels that is home again, as if she never left the place. Israel, meanwhile, remains her spiritual homeland, she says.

Her first visit to Senegal, a former French colony in western Africa, came in 1987 for an international film festival. She continued to go back and forth before making it her permanent home in 2000. Widowed for several years by then, Gavron says she decided it was time for a real change. She became a Senegalese citizen in 2007.

The night before she left Paris for the permanent move to Dakar, Gavron says she was inexplicably drawn to visit the Jewish quarter of Paris.

“I curiously found myself walking towards the Marais,” she recalls, where she bought a mezuzah.

“Being Jewish is important for me, even though I do not practice Judaism every day,” she said. “I am attached to my Jewish identity and to the cultural elements which differentiate me from others.”

forward.com/culture/161092/lost-jews-of-africa/

[Ish Gebor]

Jewish Roots in Africa


www.kulanu.org/africa/africa2.php



www.westafricanjews.com

The wider Jewish world began taking more notice of the Ibo in 2012 - filmmaker Jeff Lieberman released a documentary “Re-emerging: The Jews of Nigeria,” and Northeastern University professor William F.S. Miles published “The Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey."

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Nigeria.html

[Ish Gebor]

May 9, 2016 9:39:08 GMT -5 history91 said:

Doesn't this article prove the ancient Israelites were white?

www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-historys-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Turkish folks have a linguistic phylum that has nothing to do with Afrasan/ Afroasiatic. There proto-Turkic language neither has anything to do with Afrasan/ Afroasiatic, Semetic.


"Semitic origins and dispersals after the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic in Africa"


"after having diverged from Afroasiatic in Africa" (Ehret 1995; Ehret et al. 2004; Blench 2006)."

"These results indicate that the ancestor of all Semitic languages in our dataset was being spoken in the Near East no earlier than approximately 7400 YBP, after having diverged from Afroasiatic in Africa (Ehret 1995; Ehret et al. 2004; Blench 2006). "

[Ish Gebor]

May 15, 2016 21:00:35 GMT -5 history91 said:

Why hasn't the ancient Judeans DNA never been sequenced?

khazardnaproject.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/responding-to-the-criticism-for-des-et-al-2016/s

Thats is indeed a good question. 

[twintwo]

May 6, 2016 5:45:44 GMT -5 history91 said:

I've only heard they went into Parts of the Middle east and Africa.

Theywent into Africa and was recaptured and enslaved in America and etc.....Negro or as you call them today African American and etc..... The proof is the SICKLE CELL gene which was passed down through the generations

[zarahan]

Dubious. The Benin Sickle Cell gene ORIGINATED IN WEST AFRICA, and its distribution
flows OUT of Africa TO other parts. Thus, mystical "fleeing negroes", "migrating negroes,"
"migrating Hebrews" or "wandering Jews" could not be bringing the haplotype into West Africa.
It was already there to begin with.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Mar 5, 2016 23:39:55 GMT -5 Tukuler al~Takruri said:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English - Acts 21:37-39

And when he approached to enter the encampment, Paulus said to the Chiliarch, “If you allow me, I shall speak with you”, but he said to him, “Do you know Greek?”

“Are you not that Egyptian who before these days made a disturbance and led four thousand criminal men to the wilderness?”

Paulus said to him, “I am a man, a Jew from Tarsus, the notable city of Qiliqia in which I was born. I beg of you, let me speak to the people.

Mar 6, 2016 10:35:46 GMT -5 Tukuler al~Takruri said:

Every ball you pitch I knock out the park.

Anyone can read the passage to plainly and without peregrinations see the Roman mistook Paul for an
Egyptian, one particular Egyptian a gang leader. He
couldn't tell an Egyptian from a Jew of Tarsus.

Go back get your GED attain English comprehension.

Who's more ignorant you or your source? GIGO

Egypt's Jews certainly spoke Greek. Anyone the
least familiar with this topic knows of both the
Septuagint and Aquila TN"K translations.

Will the imbecile further embarrass himself?

Mar 6, 2016 5:18:09 GMT -5 @ancienttomb said:

It's not saying what you think it does. It has nothing to do with skin complexion, but language.

"Do you know Greek"?

Greek at that time was commonly spoken in Egypt. This is why Paul was confused for an Egyptian because not many Jews spoke Greek, but Aramaic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Palestinian_Aramaic

"Josephus also points out the extreme rarity of a Jew knowing Greek."

This is why Paul was confused for an Egyptian.

Btw, if you run a google book search for the correct reading of this passage - what I just posted is what Biblical scholars say. The only sources saying skin colour are from loony Black Hebrew Israelite literature.

Mar 7, 2016 21:00:10 GMT -5 Tukuler al~Takruri said:

I wondered if the uneducated one
would continue embarrassing him
self and the answer turns out YES.


Acts 21:27 en passim is exactly about
what it says, Paul's misidentification
as Egyptian which he himself clears.

Jews in Egypt spoke koine Greek in
which they translated TN"K into the
Septuagint. Centuries later another
translation of TN"K into Greek was
made by Aquilas.

Sorry to repeat myself but some
prejudiced idiot didn't get it the
first time.

I've also heard ytes say it was Paul's clothing made the tribune think Egyptian.
Anything except the unbent Occam's Razor parsimonious text identigication: Egyptian Jew.