thickner: Michelle Obama’s 1st Cousin a Rabbi
The Forward: Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in Her Family Hat tip to pilegeshblogspot.com
… He is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes known as black Hebrews or Israelites. He has often urged the larger Jewish community to be more accepting of Jews who are not white…
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Is the forward acknowledging Black Israelites as Jewish? Wow. Good for them!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yhosephus,
In the article it says that he went through an orthodox conversion as well.