Comments on: Black Synagogue gains acceptance: “Torah fever.”

By: shemayah

shemayah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:30 +0000

I am a young member of this congregation. This day was the most powerful day of my life. Full of Joy, Spiritual connection, and Unity. This is what we need throughout the Jewish Community. We need to sticktogether as a whole!!!!

By: shemayah

shemayah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:46:30 +0000

By: Blacks also are Cohens

Blacks also are Cohens — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:31:32 +0000

It is great that people are recognising the truth but my concern is a woman Rabbi. Is this right nowhere in the Torah is a woman ordained into the preisthood or teaching men.
Only Devowrah had some authority as a Judge and look what happened there; the glory of the battle was given to a women Yael because a man relied on a woman.
In support of this read the next chapters of this book and Gideon arrives to save Israel. Is the message stating G-D can send a woman, lowly man or even a donkey to get his point accross?
Call me schauvanist but I am only going by Torah.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:08:30 +0000

A step towards racial unity. =)

By: Carmen D.

Carmen D. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:04:16 +0000

Hi Grampa Caligula. So nice to see you. As far a black folks and Christianity, one thing to keep in mind is that so many of our Civil Rights heroes and heroines came out of the Church. The church was the hub of social justice organizing. Civil rights leaders held onto unwavering faith and the belief that God was on the side of right. This carried them through even in the face of savage brutality. The black church was also a place where for one morning a week, black folks living under severe racial oppression would be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so, and wear beautiful clothes and feel like full human beings.

Still, I would have probably converted to Judaism if I had not had a religious experience that led me to Christianity.

By: Grampa Caligula

Grampa Caligula — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:51:27 +0000

My grandparents (father’s side) had an eclectic connection to Judaism that I never quite understood. This article gave me a little more insight into that connection.

It always fascinated me how the black community holds such a strong bind to christianity, especially when it was (and is) used to oppress and segregate. I can also see the appeal of Judaism in such a manner, since they are being constantly tested by their God.

I’m sure that as in any language, the fault is not in the spirit of the diety’s word, but in it’s interpretation by its disciples.