• Jews since the 1780s. His father, Asher Rishon, converted to Judaism after meeting Shais' mother. Growing up, Shais felt alienated from the Jewish community...
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    Rishon LeZion (Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן (audio), lit. "First to Zion") is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain eight kilometres...
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  • community. According to the Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist Shais Rishon, the Black Hebrew Israelite movement is not part of "the mainstream normative...
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  • word's use, comparing it to the term "kushi". Black Orthodox Jewish rabbi Shais Rishon rejected the notion that the term is not meant to be offensive and racist...
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    cookie." In a 2015 op-ed in Tablet magazine, African-American Rabbi Shais Rishon argued that the cookie, with its cleanly separated black and white sides...
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    February 10, 2013. The Tablet: "The Journeys of Six Jewish Americans" by Shais Rishon (MaNishtana) May 13, 2016 Huff, Richard (April 13, 2012). "Liz Cho goes...
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  • succeeded as the church's leader by his son Prince Benjamin F. Cherry. Shais Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist, stated that Cherry was...
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  • in the New York City. The Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist Shais Rishon has written that the Israelite Rabbinical Academy is not a Jewish institution...
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  • ISBN 0-8103-7578-8. The Tablet: "The Journeys of Six Jewish Americans" by Shais Rishon (MaNishtana) May 13, 2016 "Class Notes: Giselle Fernandez". Sac State...
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    African American student that white classmates would "harvest his organs". Shais Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist, has stated that the "mainstream...
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