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Janét Aizenstros

Oct 24, 2025, 11:34 PM

When One Bleeds, the Other Trembles: Jewish Conscience and the Cry of Nigerian Christians

When gunmen attacked the mission in Yelwata, Benue State on June 13–14, 2025, they slaughtered between 100 and 200 Christian villagers and displaced some 3,000. Entire families were incinerated, children and mothers among the charred ruins, while the world...

Jan 25, 2023, 7:06 PM

3 Pastors and the Rabbi’s Son

A Catholic priest, an Episcopal rector, and a Presbyterian minister walk into a rabbi’s house for Shabbat dinner… Although this sounds like the beginning of a joke, it actually happened not long ago, in my home. I had become...

Jan 8, 2022, 12:02 AM

A reckless Israeli film crew in Nigeria and the Igbo Jews who paid the price

Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)

In their apparent ignorance of the government's policies and practices, the visitors suffered -- their Igbo hosts suffered far more

Hananya Naftali

Jun 28, 2021, 9:24 AM

Biafrans Are Massacred And The World Is Silent

Demonstration of separatist organisation Indigenous People of Biafra at Trafalgar square on May 30, 2018 in London. (Shutterstock)

Between 2-3 million Igbo people starved to death during the Nigerian siege on Biafra. Today, Igbos are still massacred, and the world turns a blind eye to it. Growing up in Israel as a Jew, I did not hear enough...

Oct 1, 2020, 4:40 PM

Nigeria’s Mysterious Igbo Population

There are a number of positive things that could be reported about Nigeria that rarely makes international headlines. Last year marked their 20th anniversary under their current Constitution, which was the 4th to come along following independence. It was not...

Jun 25, 2018, 8:38 PM

Igbo people and leaders

Igbos make a fundamental mistake in choosing their leaders. We look for a he or she that had been a governor, minister, senator, legislator, etc, and empower him or her further. But we do not check if that former...

May 14, 2015, 12:12 PM

Beta Israel and Nigerian lost tribes

During a 2014 visit in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, as I was driving with Igbo Jewish author Remy Ilona to one of the city’s synagogues, he expressed his surprise that the state of Israel has not yet recognized the Igbo...

Nov 4, 2014, 9:48 AM

Rhode Islanders Visit Abuja’s Igbo Jews

In August I met up in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, with Congregation Beth Sholom of Providence’s Rabbi Barry Dolinger and Naomi Baine, who journeyed to Africa, for the first time, in order to teach the city’s Igbo Jews. Our...

Dec 26, 2013, 2:48 PM

The Igbo Jews who came to Providence

(Left to right) Elder Ovadia Agbai, Elder Pinchas Ogbukaa, and Shai Afsai at Camp JORI in Rhode Island (Photo credit - Shai Afsai)

An American Jewish community connects, through the shared experience of Hebrew prayer, with visitors from Nigeria

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