Black Israël
Maurice Dorès
2002 - 85 min - DV Cam - France

This film intends to show several encounters with Africans and Black Americans who live in the Jewish community. They are Jews by birth or conversion. Others came to Israel in order to work or study.
In Dimona, in the Negev desert, 2 to 3 thousands Black Americans live under the law of their leader and Messiah Carter Ben Ami. They call themselves the Hebrew Israelites and practice Judaic customs.
In USA, thousands of Black Jews form distinct groups. Others joined traditionnal Jewish communities. These men and women affirm their identity without forgetting their African origins and culture. Each one, in their one way, expresses a Black Jewishness, which finds it own place within the diversity of Judaism.