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For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) lived together across the lands of North Africa, building ...
As of last year, Zambia was home to just 11 Jews, but throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds settled there after ...
With that truism in mind, Dr. Charles Jacobs, my mentor who introduced me to the world of Jewish activism, has founded the African-Jewish Alliance, bringing together two demographics who are both ...
“Our mission is to respect and record the contributions of once-proud, vibrant Jewish communities in southern Africa,” he said, noting that Jews lived in nearly 1,500 towns over a 130-year period.
The African Jewish Congress, an umbrella group, elected a new slate of leaders, including Ann Harris of South Africa as president. The Forward ’s staff contributors are listed in our masthead.
Pessimism in the Jewish community appeared to grow when Zuma, who took office a little more than three months ago, defeated Thabo Mbeki for the leadership of the African National Congress in late ...
African-Jewish alliance forms As they break bread tonight, members of a new student group will be celebrating a renewed alliance. At tonight's Soul Food Shabbat, student leaders will introduce the ...
Erin Dodo, Chairperson of the Western Cape branch of the South African Union of Jewish Students, on Thursday published an op-ed titled, “To Jewish students in the US – we get it!” ...
But as a new book shows, a 19th-century Jewish adventurer named Nathaniel Isaacs helped shape the myth from which the fictional African nation of Wakanda and its fearless leader emerged.