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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Jews in Madagascar

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Malagasy legends of ancient Israelite ancestors often feature red zebu—a local adaptation of the biblical red heifer

... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"? Source: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8322.12391 "the number of Malagasy adherents to normative (i.e. rabbinic) Judaism is eclipsed by probably millions within the larger society who casually affirm genealogical descent from ancient Israel"
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5x expanded by Zanahary (talk). Self-nominated at 10:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Jews in Madagascar; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image eligibility:

Freely licensed:
Used in article: - The picture is used in the article but doesn't tie into the hook, so I don't think it's necessary.
Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Good hook and article; everything checks out besides the picture (IMHO, this is a hook that isn't really possible to illustrate). Generalissima (talk) 18:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)