Shabbat Beha'aloteha: Women and Race » J-Wire
Miriam and Aaron complained to Moshe about his wife, calling her Isha Cushit, a woman of Cush ( Numbers Chapter 12 ). The word Cushi in modern Hebrew usage refers to a person’s skin colour as black. Cush is also used geographically to refer to Yemen in Arabia or Abyssinia in Africa. And it is used by the prophet Amos (9:7) to describe…
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