We are a Human Rights association assembled around raising the questions, and finding answers to, the problematic of invisibility created by a social context of discrimination, to which jewish afro-descendants are confronted in their everyday lives.
There are many African Jewish communities, whose culture is a living uninterrupted continuum over centuries and millennias.
When members of these African communities go to the Diaspora they face a common treatment shared by Black people, based on a historical heritage of discriminatory practices and prejudices targeting them.
As Marcus Garvey rightly pointed being Black in the Western Diaspora is not an ethnic fact, but a social condition.
FJN as respresentatives of living African Jewish communities, would like to contribute its experiences and analysis to community leaders and educators, through conferences, interventions or classes which can be in a academic or community setting.
We are committed to Panafrican development and education.
As such we are an umbrella and not a political or denominational association.
We respect all branches of these communities from their very traditional practitioners to those who feel the need for a more modern form of keeping their cultures alive.
We like to cultivate mutual respect accross the denominational spectrum.
This respect includes the fact that as Africans who have suffered from western missionary activities which are colonial in essence, we do not wish to turn people away from their cultures to “convert” them to any form of religious practice over another.
People can make these personal choices on their own, but we only engage in educational and social human rights issues. The connexion to culture is just to show who the people concerned are, not to sell one culture over another as better.
We also do interfaith meetings which gather notable members of different faiths to promote peace between faith communities.
FJN exists because Black Jews exist
