בְנֵ֤י בִּלְהָה מִןאַפְרִיקָה: AHARON

Bnei Bilhah are of an ancient origin. In the Hebrew migratory tradition begun more than two millennia ago, an Israeli remnant migrated into Africa with many Danites from Northeast Africa migrating back to their tribal allocations in Israel, such as Tel Aviv, besides emerging Naphtalite communities throughout Mainland Africa, including Levitical Islanders from Haiti, Jamaica, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, as well as a Mixed Multitude comprising the African Diaspora from the United States of America settling Southwest of the Sea of Galilee.

ልጥፎችን በመለያ AHARON በማሳየት ላይ። ሁሉንም ልጥፎች አሳይ

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Wil Gafney: Mother Bilhah, womb-slave of Israel, we call your name. Ashé!

Nightmare in Dreamland pt1 DUBAI Ethiopian / Filipino Maids Slavery PART 1 https://t.co/mdtYQoeIv0 via @YouTube
— Rita (@MissOginy) June 26, 2017

"$5,000 for Filipino maid & $1,500 for Ethiopian maid for 2 years contract. No day off." This is a fucking slavery/human trafficking system! https://t.co/48NtICaQD7
— 月 (@faroofash) July 22, 2017

זלפה מכה פניה, בלהה מקוננת בשתי ידיה.
I can't think of another place in all of our liturgy where Zilpah and... https://t.co/FXaPglPt8H
— (((Elli Fischer))) (@Adderabbi) August 1, 2017

Wil Gafney: No comfort is offered to Bilhah in the text. Was she supported by other slave women, by Zilpah who shared her lot in life?

Wil Gafney: when I pray the Amidah, I add Hagar, Bilhah and Zilpah

Wil Gafney: Given the absence of Lavan’s wife from the narrative it is entirely possible that Lavan used Bilhah sexually

Wil Gafney: Bilhah’s body is used again in Gen 35:22. Re’uven ben Leah, Ya‘aqov’s firstborn son, rapes Bilhah. That Bilhah does not consent is indicated by the Hebrew, vayishcav et-bilhah, "he lay Bilhah." There is no "with" indicating consent.

Wil Gafney: Bilhah’s sexual subordination to Rachel (with or without the possibility that Lavan used her sexually previously) evokes for me the sexual abuse of enslaved Africans in the United States, Caribbean and other places.

Aaron Finestone: It could be argued that Bilhah and Zilpah were omitted as Imahot because of race and class.

betsy teutsch: Some of the rejection of Bilhah and Zilpah is due to class and race issues.

Judy Bolton-Fasman: Bilhah and Zilpah understand women who feel marginalized.

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Suliman: Our family comes from Sudan — we came to Israel for a better life. We live in a village pretty far from Tel Aviv, but our mom brings us here because we love to swim and play in the water.

Aharon, who emigrated from Ethiopia, changed his name to make it sound more Israeli.

Ayala and her family emigrated from Ethiopia when she was two years old.

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Jojo Dass: Shaima Ibrahim Khairy Mahmoud Gad was born in Cairo, Egypt. Her father, Ibrahim Khairy Mahmoud Gad, is a retired food and beverage manager at a hotel in Egypt and her mother, Carmen Rassmuzin Cordoviz, left her home in Makati City in Metro Manila, Philippines for Egypt when she was 30 years old, and decided to become a school teacher. Gad has three other sisters and a brother, arrived in Dubai last year, and started working as PR and marketing coordinator at Crowne Plaza Deira. She plans to grow her career and move to Tunisia someday to settle down with her husband, Kaies Amri, a Tunisian national who works at Damac Maison Hotel in Downtown Dubai.

AARON PALABYAB: My friends and I during our trip to Egypt in 2008.

Bezalel Porten: The Elephantine documents reveal the presence on the island of Elephantine and on the mainland (Syene) of a Jewish military colony serving Persian interests. The Elephantine Jews observed the Sabbath, celebrated Passover, and gave their children Hebrew names. One of the most striking features of the Elephantine papyri is the prominent role that women play. It is no exaggeration to say that they are everywhere. Almost a third of the contributors were women. Their names enhance our knowledge of female onomastica. While a married woman in the Bible was regularly known by the name of her husband, these women, as well as the ones mentioned in the contracts, are referred to by their fathers’ names.

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Caryn Elaine Johnson aka Whoopi Goldberg

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Moshe Gilad: The Sakhnin Valley with its olive groves surrounds us. Our hosts tell us that on a clear day you can see Lake Kinneret on one side and Acre on the other.