From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings. -Zephaniah 3:10 On November 19th I boarded a plane at JFK airport to head to Nigeria to spend two weeks visiting various Hebrew congregations. My reason for going to Nigeria was to teach the women […]
When we read this week’s Torah Portion we see a great deal of family dysfunction. We see Rebekah and Isaac each choosing a child to favor, we see the division of brothers and we see Isaac repeating a mistake of his father Abraham. The mistake Isaac repeated can be found […]
How to be chosen by Yah for greatness: Service & Discernment The passage for this week’s Torah portion is called Chayei Sarah-The Life of Sarah by many scholars. In this week’s Torah portion we see the death of a dynasty and the beginning of a new one. Sarah and Abraham […]
Then Yah Opened Her Eyes…. “This is an example of him intentionally not seeing you, of intentionally not seeing a woman.” This quote was from a work conversation but reminded me of this week’s Torah portion. When I was in seminary I learned that African-American women theologians who started Womanist […]
On August 6th I left New York City to travel to Israel for a conference and Holy Land pilgrimage led by a powerful sister named Mahaleyah Goodman. Mahaleyah wanted Black people from throughout the diaspora to come together to build spiritually during these hard times. I have always wanted to […]
On Tuesday January 26th, 2016 I testified before the U.N. Working Group for People of African Descent at their New York Fact-finding Mission. My testimony was about how Mass Incarceration impacts Black Women and Girls. This fact-finding mission is a part of the decade for people of African Descent whose […]
Shalom Everyone! For my congregation’s Sukkot celebration, we started with a day where everyone dressed as a Bible character and so with Esther, Ruth and Deborah taken I decided to dress as the little-known Hebrew Prophetess Huldah whose prophetic words to King Josiah helped the entire Kingdom of Judah turn […]
My congregation Beth-El House of Yahweh observes all the Biblical Feast and it has been a blessing for me to observe these appointed times where we can take time out of our busy schedules and commune with each other and the King of the universe. This week is the Biblical […]
It’s been a little over a week since I returned from a life changing trip to Ghana and Togo. In my spirit I felt like I needed to take a trip to Israel first, Ghana and then Nigeria (where my ancestors hailed from but Ghana was the last place they […]