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Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by EmmaJnr1(op): 5:31pm On Mar 12, 2022
ON the 14th day of January 2022 [12 Shebat 5782], the Jewish Rabbinate of the Obadayah Alliance [Dayan Jacob de Oliveira, Dayan Eliezer Tabor, Dayan Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota, Rabbi Hananiah Cohen, and Rabbi Haim Ovadia] ruled that the Igbos of Nigeria are descendants of ancient Israelites.
According to the Rabbinate, “the presence of Israelites along the Niger River had been known by Jewish authorities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Suriname.

Rabbinic letters addressed to the Igbos by Chief rabbis: Dr. Solomon Hershel Lewin, David Meldola, and the Gaon of Vilna (Elijan Zalman), support the idea that there was contact between European Jewish communities and Igbo Israelites. All of the correspondence from the aforementioned rabbinic authorities address the Igbos as “brethren of the Children of Israel.” Accordingly, there is no doubt of their origins, nor of their halakhic status as Israelites.”

According to the Rabbinate, while there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike.

The Rabbinate noted the fact that rabbinic authorities during the Songhai Empires were aware of Israelites in Igboland, which leads to the logical conclusion that they treated Igbos as Israelites. The final conclusion of the Obadya Alliance Rabbinate was that “Igbos are to be treated as Israelites, in every sense of the word, and also their priestly and Levite lineages should be upheld as valid.”
The Rabbinate advised that upon the return of the Igbos to Omenana (what you do in the Land), they should be circumcised [if they hadn’t performed it already], say the sheheḥeyánu afterward, and partake in the kola nut ceremony with their brethren, as is customary among Igbos.

This ruling may also trigger more scholars to do more research about Igbos, what they offered the world in the past, what they are offering the world now, and what they would offer the world in the future.

As democracy is under assault, the Igbos are democratic to the core and stand out as the most culturally democratic ethnic entity globally. The world may have a look at the Igbo traditional system of government, which has survived despite many years of British rule and Nigeria’s deliberate marginalization.
It is interesting that the Obadya Rabbinate addressed Igbos as Israelites, not as Jews. They also affirmed Omenana (what you do in the Land) as the authentic original religion of the children of Israel.

http://hint-magazine.com/jewish-rabbinical-court-rules-igbos-are-israelites/?fbclid=IwAR0JZu2OsIQgmV_PA_zAR6DVUoeErC_dweKH0rDHd6TO2ScMOT3Ge81UeIE
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by jlinkd78(m): 5:32pm On Mar 12, 2022
Noted
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by EmmaJnr1(op): 5:33pm On Mar 12, 2022
Fa maru ka nyi si kwadu

Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Kingosytex(m): 5:37pm On Mar 12, 2022
Nsogbu adịrọ. Make I pack my things begin enter Israel cheesy
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by PlayerMeji: 5:48pm On Mar 12, 2022
Lol..

So Arochukwu was a Jew?

grin grin
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by nzeobi(m): 6:01pm On Mar 12, 2022
Igbos are Israelites then Israel can do a lot to assist igbos
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by LLiKYekoba: 6:14pm On Mar 12, 2022
Nothing to celebrate, but this academic exercise and his mention about an exhaustive genetic study is front page worthy.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Mooh247: 6:15pm On Mar 12, 2022
Inferiority complex
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Ibrahimmrfish(m): 6:17pm On Mar 12, 2022
Very good,will they give the whole Igbo the right to return.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 6:18pm On Mar 12, 2022
Hahahaha

Na by force to be Jewish?

This is high class inferiority complex
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by emmalexabl(m): 6:39pm On Mar 12, 2022
helinues:
Hahahaha

Na by force to be Jewish?

This is high class inferiority complex
And you just displayed "high class IGBOPHOBIA"
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 6:40pm On Mar 12, 2022
emmalexabl:
And you just displayed "high class IGBOPHOBIA"
Of course, anyone with contrary opinion from you people must be seen as a threat.

No be only IGBOPHOBIA but UGUOHOBIA

Eish
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by meccuno: 6:40pm On Mar 12, 2022
helinues:
Hahahaha

Na by force to be Jewish?

This is high class inferiority complex

Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 6:41pm On Mar 12, 2022
[quote author=meccuno post=110978643][/quote]Boring, stale and dumb
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Yoruba1stson: 6:42pm On Mar 12, 2022
Aba made jews and inferiority complex. I don't blame them sha, if nah you say you no go deny say you be igbo
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by plaetton:
EmmaJnr1:
ON the 14th day of January 2022 [12 Shebat 5782], the Jewish Rabbinate of the Obadayah Alliance [Dayan Jacob de Oliveira, Dayan Eliezer Tabor, Dayan Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota, Rabbi Hananiah Cohen, and Rabbi Haim Ovadia] ruled that the Igbos of Nigeria are descendants of ancient Israelites.
According to the Rabbinate, “the presence of Israelites along the Niger River had been known by Jewish authorities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Suriname.

Rabbinic letters addressed to the Igbos by Chief rabbis: Dr. Solomon Hershel Lewin, David Meldola, and the Gaon of Vilna (Elijan Zalman), support the idea that there was contact between European Jewish communities and Igbo Israelites. All of the correspondence from the aforementioned rabbinic authorities address the Igbos as “brethren of the Children of Israel.” Accordingly, there is no doubt of their origins, nor of their halakhic status as Israelites.”

According to the Rabbinate, while there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike.

The Rabbinate noted the fact that rabbinic authorities during the Songhai Empires were aware of Israelites in Igboland, which leads to the logical conclusion that they treated Igbos as Israelites. The final conclusion of the Obadya Alliance Rabbinate was that “Igbos are to be treated as Israelites, in every sense of the word, and also their priestly and Levite lineages should be upheld as valid.”
The Rabbinate advised that upon the return of the Igbos to Omenana (what you do in the Land), they should be circumcised [if they hadn’t performed it already], say the sheheḥeyánu afterward, and partake in the kola nut ceremony with their brethren, as is customary among Igbos.

This ruling may also trigger more scholars to do more research about Igbos, what they offered the world in the past, what they are offering the world now, and what they would offer the world in the future.

As democracy is under assault, the Igbos are democratic to the core and stand out as the most culturally democratic ethnic entity globally. The world may have a look at the Igbo traditional system of government, which has survived despite many years of British rule and Nigeria’s deliberate marginalization.
It is interesting that the Obadya Rabbinate addressed Igbos as Israelites, not as Jews. They also affirmed Omenana (what you do in the Land) as the authentic original religion of the children of Israel.

http://hint-magazine.com/jewish-rabbinical-court-rules-igbos-are-israelites/?fbclid=IwAR0JZu2OsIQgmV_PA_zAR6DVUoeErC_dweKH0rDHd6TO2ScMOT3Ge81UeIE
Every so often another moro.n throws up this very embarrassing Igbos are Jewish nonsense. And each time , I want to throw up at the incredible level of ignorance, scientific illiteracy and level of self-deprication that conjures and latches on to this nonsense.

My simple response to moro.ns that promote or believe this trash is that is if Igbos are genetically related to Jews, then the Igbos should also be genetically related to Arabs. Jews and Arabs are of the Semitic race. Therefore, an ancestral link to one is an ancestral link to the other.
So, hurrah!!
Igbos are Arabs.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Emergingnation3(m): 6:54pm On Mar 12, 2022
helinues:
Hahahaha

Na by force to be Jewish?

This is high class inferiority complex
Lol, who is stopping you to claim Iran or Saudi Arabia as a typical Yoruba Muslim..
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 6:55pm On Mar 12, 2022
Emergingnation3:
Lol, who is stopping you to claim Iran or Saudi Arabia as a typical Yoruba Muslim..
Cos we are proud of who we are.

No need of forcing attachee with others
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Emergingnation3(m): 7:05pm On Mar 12, 2022
helinues:
Can't you make your comments without attacking others..

Once in a while still fair but all the time? Should we say that's how your mood always like?
It's better to attached oneself with Israel, God's anointed people, than with Fulani... Remember Fulani and yoruba are one cheesy.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Karemarealty288(m): 7:07pm On Mar 12, 2022
I am an Igboman ooo but I found it funny linking me to Israel....what exactly is the benefit of being an Israeli/Jewish decendant in Nigeria? And why is my ancestorial linkage being debated in court?

Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by tamdun: 7:12pm On Mar 12, 2022
No identity...
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 7:13pm On Mar 12, 2022
Emergingnation3:
It's better to attached oneself with Israel, God's anointed people, than with Fulani... Remember Fulani and yoruba are one cheesy.
God's annointed people, claimed in their own books to massage their own ego.

We are in the 21st century fcs. Would you have expected Israelites to talk down on themselves?
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by skybeauty(f): 7:27pm On Mar 12, 2022
FACTS

After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, 1million Jews fled into Africa - Josephus (an ancient Jewish historian)

When East Africa have accumulated huge numbers of Jewish migrants and can no more accommodate them, they began to migrate to the Niger River Areas. See “From Babylon to Timbuktu”

Ancient Hebrews has been proven to be of mixed colors brown, dark, light skinned and red but were never Caucasian (white skin, blond hair and blue eyes) never

After studying the book “from Babylon to Timbuktu” you will be constrained to make the following Conclusions:
Most African tribes like the igbos, ibibio, the Bantu, Kanuri, Ashantis, some parts of Yoruba like the Egba, people etc could be the true descendants of ancient Israelites.

One day we will discover how we have been lied to by the West.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by Ojiofor: 7:29pm On Mar 12, 2022
These group of fake jews in Igboland will go to any extent to deceive themselves that Igbos are of Jewish origin including bribing some corrupt Jewish Rabbi to make a favourable statement in that regardThese guys from a particular section of Igboland are desperate to force a new identity on the Igbos where they will be seen superior to others they are...Emeka Maduewesi,Remy Ilona,Francis Duru etc...
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by helinues: 7:31pm On Mar 12, 2022
skybeauty:
FACTS

After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, 1million Jews fled into Africa - Josephus (an ancient Jewish historian)

When East Africa have accumulated huge numbers of Jewish migrants and can no more accommodate them, they began to migrate to the Niger River Areas. See “From Babylon to Timbuktu”

Ancient Hebrews has been proven to be of mixed colors brown, dark, light skinned and red but were never Caucasian (white skin, blond hair and blue eyes) never

After studying the book “from Babylon to Timbuktu” you will be constrained to make the following Conclusions:
Most African tribes like the igbos, ibibio, the Bantu, Kanuri, Ashantis, some parts of Yoruba like the Egba, people etc could be the true descendants of ancient Israelites.

One day we will discover how we have been lied to by the West.
Yet Eithopians that the Israelites seeked refuge from never claimed to be Jewish.

Self love is important in life
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by skybeauty(f): 7:39pm On Mar 12, 2022
helinues:
Yet Eithopians that the Israelites seeked refuge from never claimed to be Jewish.

Self love is important in life
Then you must be ignorant of the Falashas. Ethiopian Jews who were recently airlifted in their thousands to Israel. There are still many of them in Ethiopia today.
Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by meccuno: 8:56pm On Mar 12, 2022
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helinues:
Boring, stale and dumb
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Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Rules Igbos Are Israelites by 9jalyte: 9:47pm On Mar 12, 2022
EmmaJnr1:
ON the 14th day of January 2022 [12 Shebat 5782], the Jewish Rabbinate of the Obadayah Alliance [Dayan Jacob de Oliveira, Dayan Eliezer Tabor, Dayan Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota, Rabbi Hananiah Cohen, and Rabbi Haim Ovadia] ruled that the Igbos of Nigeria are descendants of ancient Israelites.
According to the Rabbinate, “the presence of Israelites along the Niger River had been known by Jewish authorities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Suriname.

Rabbinic letters addressed to the Igbos by Chief rabbis: Dr. Solomon Hershel Lewin, David Meldola, and the Gaon of Vilna (Elijan Zalman), support the idea that there was contact between European Jewish communities and Igbo Israelites. All of the correspondence from the aforementioned rabbinic authorities address the Igbos as “brethren of the Children of Israel.” Accordingly, there is no doubt of their origins, nor of their halakhic status as Israelites.”

According to the Rabbinate, while there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike.

The Rabbinate noted the fact that rabbinic authorities during the Songhai Empires were aware of Israelites in Igboland, which leads to the logical conclusion that they treated Igbos as Israelites. The final conclusion of the Obadya Alliance Rabbinate was that “Igbos are to be treated as Israelites, in every sense of the word, and also their priestly and Levite lineages should be upheld as valid.”
The Rabbinate advised that upon the return of the Igbos to Omenana (what you do in the Land), they should be circumcised [if they hadn’t performed it already], say the sheheḥeyánu afterward, and partake in the kola nut ceremony with their brethren, as is customary among Igbos.

This ruling may also trigger more scholars to do more research about Igbos, what they offered the world in the past, what they are offering the world now, and what they would offer the world in the future.

As democracy is under assault, the Igbos are democratic to the core and stand out as the most culturally democratic ethnic entity globally. The world may have a look at the Igbo traditional system of government, which has survived despite many years of British rule and Nigeria’s deliberate marginalization.
It is interesting that the Obadya Rabbinate addressed Igbos as Israelites, not as Jews. They also affirmed Omenana (what you do in the Land) as the authentic original religion of the children of Israel.

http://hint-magazine.com/jewish-rabbinical-court-rules-igbos-are-israelites/?fbclid=IwAR0JZu2OsIQgmV_PA_zAR6DVUoeErC_dweKH0rDHd6TO2ScMOT3Ge81UeIE
Seriously, you guys should stop this rubbish. You cannot keep bending a people's identity because of your low self esteem. What is so good about Israel that you are fighting too hard to beg for their acceptance. I am Igbo, nothing like Jewish Igbo.

By the way, do you think the people called Igbo today have a common ancestry? If I were you, I will devote this energy into understanding who the Igbos are and not to create another identity for them. By the way, I want to comment on a Statement you posted:

" As democracy is under assault, the Igbos are democratic to the core and stand out as the most culturally democratic ethnic entity globally. The world may have a look at the Igbo traditional system of government, which has survived despite many years of British rule and Nigeria’s deliberate marginalization"

I think, if you believe the above, you should be worried about the emergence of Neo-Igbos we have today, who are everything but Igbo. Look at the Characters that call themselves IPOB. Please tell me what is exactly democratic about them. The true Igbos do not believe in comand and control, in one man emperor mentality or even bowing to anyone or this kind of hero worship. It should worry you that we are losing our Igboness, with people like you subsuming our identity under Jewish identity. Some others are marketing Biafra as a new identity at the detriment of our true identity.

You guys should leave us in peace biko!
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