I don't think Whoopi is an actual Jewish convert - the article I read, it was more like she was just voluntarily saying she had adopted a Jewish surname for show business purposes and "felt like" a Jewish person. I know cultural "arbiters" have made race an extreme controversy, and want to mix up terms of race, ethnicity, culture, etc, in any/all way to alienate, denigrate and harm people, but imagine if a "white Jew" such as you or I would say we identify as Black? Wasn't that like what that Rachel Dolezal, universally criticized and mocked, did? Pretending to be someone she wasn't? I have seen snooty Jews defending Whoopi simply because they socially wanted to be the arbiters of saying they are fine with her, to put others down who objected to her statements. It's a disgusting situation. I haven't heard of Black Hebrew Israelites, I am thinking I don't want to know!