Best estimates suggest there are around 140,000 African-American Jewish people living in the United States. James Beard award-winning writer and historian Michael Twitty uses the term “border-crossers” to describe the community, which includes himself.
“We are people who have always existed but have never really had a voice,” he writes in his new book, “Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew.”
Twitty continues: