@article{1356091,
      recid = {1356091},
      author = {Dorès, Maurice.},
      title = {Black Israel [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (85 min.)},
      year = {2002},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {This engaging film is a vibrant portrait of pluralistic  21st-century Jewish identities across the globe. It  documents Africans and African-Americans who live in Israel  and practice Judaism there. Africans from Nigeria, Togo,  the Congo, Zaire, Lagos and Ethiopia have emigrated to  Israel to work or to study Judaism. They were unable to  study their religion at home since there was no one to  teach them. In the Negev desert, several thousand black  Americans who fled the urban slums in the 1960s have formed  an independent community where they practice their own  version of the Hebraic religion under the law of their  leader Carter Ben Ami. Although they have been denied  citizenship in Israel, they enjoy friendly relations with  Israelis and believe Israel is "the kingdom of Paradise on  Earth." Many black Jews born in the Caribbean have moved to  the U.S. to practice Judaism. One congregant of the  Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Harlem, born in Trinidad,  recalls that his father s family which had Sephardic roots,  kept kosher and celebrated the Sabbath. We meet a diverse  group of people from a Harlem rabbi who reveals his  thoughts on the spread of Judaism in sub-Saharan Africa, to  Rebecca Walker, the biracial daughter of civil rights  activist Alice Walker and to an African learning Yiddish in  Paris. As one Jew from Nigeria concludes "Judaism has no  color." See also: Keep On Walking, the award-winning film  of an African-American gospel singer who teaches the  Torah.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356091},
}