What’s it Like to Be an African-American Orthodox Jew?

[@shellysgall5654]

Amazing

[@beezee7636]

You're a Jewish brother. Rest is commentary

[@elleyonaspg9580]

Is "Jewish" a religion or a nationality? Whatever it is, you can fit into any which category.

[@HamInHashomron]

This guy is clever

[@MO-vy1ri]

Both of my parents are jews through blood and We are black.

[@user-tj5mi5bb9m]

You are humen brother.....color is not important!!

[@J-Hue]

The original Jews are black. Our history and identity was stolen. Deuteronomy 28 is a good starting point.

[@yitzhakgoldberg2404]

@@J-Hue Ha! Don't make me laugh!

[@shawnstancil6942]

Judios es en todo colors

[@appleo7168]

Lol sure

[@shira1270]

All religions have issues true. Tanach has a lot of legends in it that we're brought by Abraham from Mesopotamia and handed down by oral tradition. NT has a lot of Greek mythological ideas in it. The Egyptians taught that if you eat and drink off the gods then you absorb some of their power. That's where that idea originated. Singer doesn't seem to know anything!! Tanach is based on worship of El Bull (the golden calf) then there is Yahweh and his girlfriend Asherah. Genesis starts with the Elohim which is plural for the pantheon of gods.

[@droolingfangirl]

And now I have to look up the thing about leather.

[@droolingfangirl]

Ok, got it, wearing leather shoes is forbidden on Yom Kippur the day of Atonement.

[@sageres]

@@droolingfangirl Yes, Yom Kippur, Tisha b'Av, and whenever you visit a semetery.

[@leesher1845]

You're not supposed to wear leather on Yom Kippur.

[@michaelcoates2584]

@@leesher1845 Is that in the Torah?

[@cecilhayden585]

No leather on Temple Mount

[@croys8608]

We were here first

[@shockinvybez6623]

lol

[@steveweiss7191]

All very interesting, entertaining and good, but left undefined is being Jewish. Why did a black Jew want to be one? Why convert to "Judaism?" If you want to be Jewish, be Jewish, but don't take Judaism for granted. A person who rejects Judaism in not Jewish by his own choise and self-identification. One may become Jewish or leave Judaism. Have it your way.

[@tammicaldwell-horn2499]

If you are talking about the speaker he did not "become" Jewish..he was born Jewish.

[@answerhazytryagainlateraht1916]

Ugh.

[@shira1270]

All religions have issues true. Tanach has a lot of legends in it that we're brought by Abraham from Mesopotamia and handed down by oral tradition. NT has a lot of Greek mythological ideas in it. The Egyptians taught that if you eat and drink off the gods then you absorb some of their power. That's where that idea originated. Singer doesn't seem to know anything!! Tanach is based on worship of El Bull (the golden calf) then there is Yahweh and his girlfriend Asherah. Genesis starts with the Elohim which is plural for the pantheon of gods.