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Micah Ben David Naziri

Apr 22, 2025, 10:41 AM

Black Hebrew Israelite Paternal Jewishness Claim Debunked

The Hebrew Israelite and Black Hebrew Israelite movements are as diverse as they are controversial, but one thing that remains a point of contention between most of them and normative Judaism and Jewry (the same word in Hebrew, it...

Aug 24, 2023, 4:35 PM

Rosh Hashanah, back then, before Uganda’s Jews split

Courtesy of Sam Wamani

Today some Jews no longer agree to host even members of their own family who have ‘converted’ to a different denomination

Jul 9, 2023, 5:37 PM

Documentaries & Films that will change how you look at Jewishness

Cinematic storytelling offers an intimate lens to view the world, and in my journey to comprehend the complexity and diversity of Jewish culture, I have found this lens to be particularly illuminating. Through the following eight documentaries and short...

Michael Chernick

Feb 4, 2021, 6:47 PM

A case that will make history — the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda

The Abayudaya are Ugandan Jews. They have practiced Judaism for 100 years. They began to practice normative Judaism in the 1930s, influenced by a European Jew who taught them about Jewish practices as they were observed by Jews around...

Jan 7, 2021, 8:29 PM

The media and the world’s first major detwitter

How detwitterment has significant political implications. US President Donald Trump's twitter account is responsible for his election in 2016 and has allowed him to gain a major political base with 88 million followers. Many of his supporters' prime source of information are...

Oct 2, 2020, 12:36 PM

Devoted Ugandan Jews deserve full embrace

The central synagogue of the Abayudaya Jewish community in rural Uganda. (Ben Sales/JTA)

If the Abayudaya were recognized as full Jews, as I believe they should be, then the WZO would not deliberate whether to permit them a Zionist federation under its auspices

Sep 1, 2020, 2:43 PM

Why are Jews stuck in the Amazon?

Lighting Holiday Candles in Iquitos

Jewish converts in the remote city of Iquitos are eligible to move to Israel. The government keeps them out by simply ignoring their applications.

Jul 21, 2020, 5:35 PM

Israel’s Interior Ministry – The Big Runaround

Over the past years I have written of the struggle of the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda to achieve the recognition that would allow members of the community to have the right to study in Israel and the right...

Anthony Bolchover

Feb 2, 2020, 5:08 PM

My trip to the Abayudaya

In September 2019, I made the decision to volunteer with a Jewish community in Eastern Uganda. It was an exhilarating and somewhat audacious experience and exposed me to a society and culture very different from my own. My strongest...

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