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Michael T Miller-Wierzbicki

@drmikemw.bsky.social

Academic research on Judaism, esp Black Jews and Black Hebrew Israelites. Posts about religion. Music-loving vegan. Family man. From Birmingham to Warsaw via Liverpool and Nottingham. Animal lover, environmentalist. Wearing middle-age surprisingly well.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Doris Bergen, "We have been lied to": How Antisemitism, Anti-Black Racism, and Misogyny Are Linked. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email... What is the relationship between anti-Black racism, antisemitism, sexism, and Nazism? Why did the white supremacists who marched at Charlottesville in 2017 to protest removal of a statue of Robert E. ...

Looks good

wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

18.10.2025 09:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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16.10.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did God Originally Intend the World to Be Vegetarian? - TheTorah.com | Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin

I discussed a lot of these passages, in dialogue with Black American vegetarianism as manifest in Nation of Islam and Black Hebrew Israelites in an article a few years back (in the comments)

www.thetorah.com/article/did-...

16.10.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: The Autobiography of Mahboob Qirvanian" (U Toronto Press, 2025) - New Books Network

A really interesting discussion about an important new book. We know little about the experience of slavery in the Middle East (and esp Iran).

newbooksnetwork.com/life-of-an-e...

15.10.2025 06:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Religions at the Crossroads: Africaโ€™s Creative and Spiritual Heritage Submit a proposal for the ISMโ€™s 5th annual Black Sacred Arts conference to be held in July 2026 at the University of Ghana in Accra.

ism.yale.edu/posts/2025-1...

15.10.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

China continues its crackdown on religious minorities

bitterwinter.org/coordinated-...

14.10.2025 07:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Moment African 'tribeโ€™ ARRESTED as police & immigration officers swoop on Kubala campsite
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun Moment African 'tribeโ€™ ARRESTED as police & immigration officers swoop on Kubala campsite

trying a new opportunity at money and fame, gaining royalties and donations via their social media channels. This is nothing new and they may not even be the first BHI group like this. It is unclear to what extent the handmaiden Kaura is/was in on the trick.
youtu.be/1QZpLKhm2C0?...

13.10.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stunning truth behind African tribe's โ€˜Kubala kingโ€™ revealed
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun Stunning truth behind African tribe's โ€˜Kubala kingโ€™ revealed

For those interested in Scotland's idiosyncratic Hebrew Israelite Kingdom of Kubala, 2 members were arrested ten days ago and relocated to a council flat. Further details have emerged about the founders' failed businesses and various personae. They appear to be grifters...
youtu.be/S9C37yx44ro?...

13.10.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Moment African 'tribeโ€™ ARRESTED as police & immigration officers swoop on Kubala campsite
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun Moment African 'tribeโ€™ ARRESTED as police & immigration officers swoop on Kubala campsite

trying a new opportunity at money and fame, gaining royalties and donations via their social media channels. This is nothing new and they may not even be the first BHI group like this. It is unclear to what extent the handmaiden Kaura is/was in on the trick.
youtu.be/1QZpLKhm2C0?...

13.10.2025 13:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inside billionaire Peter Thielโ€™s private lectures: Warnings of โ€˜the Antichristโ€™ and U.S. destruction In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that โ€œthe Antichristโ€ is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

โ€œmy understanding is that authorities from multiple Christian denominations have stated that Thielโ€™s views, identifying the Antichrist with proposals to regulate the AI industry, are not deemed by them to be compatible with conventional Christian belief."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

12.10.2025 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Manchester synagogue: 'Major incident' declared after reports of stabbings at Manchester synagogue The ambulance service says it's dealing with an incident in Crumpsall; the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says the immediate danger appears to be over.

Just hours later: BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Police responding to reports of stabbings at synagogue in Manchester - BBC News

02.10.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Police responding to reports of stabbings at synagogue in Manchester Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham calls it a

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Police responding to reports of stabbings at synagogue in Manchester - BBC News

02.10.2025 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We need this in warsaw. Would love to go clubbing still, but when doors dont even open till 10 its not viable. In the 90s there was a sunday london club from 11am called sunnyside up that we frequented, always great fun.

26.09.2025 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is, they do not live solely by the seven naohide laws, their practice is much richer.

21.09.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From what i understand, many of these communities engage in Jewish rituals, often guided by rabbis they connect with online. There are some (i think mostly orthodox and haredi) rabbis who see providing support to these communities' journey as part of spreading righteousness to the gentiles.

21.09.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What do the Third Temple movement and Noahide laws have in common? A far-right vision In her new book 'Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age,' Rachel Z. Feldman documents a growing fringe movement to hasten the messiah's coming - and its incendiary geopolitical implications

This Judaising movement of Noahidism is very little talked about, yet is a global phenomenon with, i believe, adherents of more than a million. For centuries there have been christians who sought to move towards the jewish roots of christianity.

www.timesofisrael.com/what-do-the-...

21.09.2025 06:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Correction: they are Ghanaian and Zimbabwean

17.09.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Missing Texas woman found living among lost โ€˜Africanโ€™ tribe in Scotland Texas native Kaura Taylor has been found with the Kingdom of Kubala, a group living in a forest in Jedburgh.

Kingdom of Kubala are a new semi-Black Hebrew Israelite group who claim Britain is biblical Israel and Black Israelites were expelled 400 years ago. They seem to be based around a Zimbabwean couple, Atehen and Mary Tamar, messiah and prophetess. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

17.09.2025 10:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Revelation Spiritual Home Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Revelation Spiritual Home

New book on this interesting African new religious movement. Free download for 2 weeks.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

08.09.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Lomonosov's bastards: Anatolii Fomenko, pseudo-history and Russia's search for a post-communist identity Anatolii Fomenko is a distinguished Russian mathematician turned popular history writer. He is the founder of New Chronology, part of the explosion of pseudo-history that has emerged in Russia since t...

I've been thinking about similarities between Black Hebrew Israelite pseudo-history and that of Anatolii Fomenko. I found this recent thesis about the latter online, which looks very good (on modern Russian thought/zeitgeist also) ro.uow.edu.au/articles/the...

06.09.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
[Chamada para (in)submissรตes] Dossiรช #12 - Judaรญsmo An-รrquico: Antissionismo, Messianismo e Cabala Radical | Dossiรช organizado por Andityas Matos e Yochanan Schimmelpfennig | (Des)troรงos: r...

CFP for an interesting looking journal issue on An-archic Judaism: Antizionism, Messianism, and Radical Kabbalah

periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/re...

05.09.2025 05:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sudan's lost Jewish community - in pictures A recent call from Sudan that Jewish people could return shines a light on a once thriving community.

Fascinating. Apparently theres a book about the community, which i look forward to

BBC News - Remembering the lost Jews of Sudan
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

24.08.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

MultiTool

13.08.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Special Report: Syriaโ€™s Christian Community Faces Extinction A June terrori attack, the deadliest in recent memory, sent shockwaves through Syria's dwindling Christian population, communities that have endured in this ancient land for almost two millennia. Now,...

religionunplugged.com/news/special...

13.08.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a loser

13.08.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Supreme Court to decide if prison officials can be sued over inmates' religious rights A Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards asked the Supreme Court to let him sue for damages.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

06.08.2025 04:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

China continues its rampage against religious minorities in Tibet as well as Xinjiang, a process of forced assimilation known as "sinicization" (which is covered also by the definition of genocide, for those interested in such things)

bitterwinter.org/over-300-tib...

03.08.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Boothโ€™s channel โ€“ rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism โ€“ garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

The blatant neo nazi antisemitism, along with antiblack racism, so often comes from those with direct personal ties to simple conservative right wingers.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

03.08.2025 06:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Over 300 Tibetan Stupas and Religious Statues Demolished by the Chinese It is not the first time the CCP has destroyed religious symbols in Sichuanโ€™s Garzรช Tibetan Autonomous Prefectureโ€”but this incident is the worst ever.

bitterwinter.org/over-300-tib...

30.07.2025 04:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Media Slander Against the AROPL in the UK: Cui Bono? Following a woman who refers to herself as โ€œthe anti-cult hero of the digital age,โ€ โ€œThe Guardianโ€ and other British media slandered the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.

bitterwinter.org/media-slande...

Good article on recent attacks on this small new religion Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (not the same as Pakistani Ahmadiyya, latter is of Sunni origin while former is Shi'i). For scholars "Cult" usually just means a religion the speaker doesn't like.

20.07.2025 06:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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