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Jews from the Ugandan Abayudaya community participating in the Shabbat Project. (Courtesy)
Seven boys from the Abayudaya Jewish community celebrate their bar mitzvah, October 18, 2014. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
Abayudaya youth on an unprecedented Birthright trip to Israel head to the Western Wall on August 27, 2018 (Screenshot)
The Abayudaya community has grown from 300 in 1980 to over 2,000 today. Here, a group poses in front of a sukkah. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
JTA American Jews with ties to a small community of Jews in Uganda are condemning a decision by Israel’s Interior Ministry to reject the right of those Jews to immigrate to Israel.
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Shoshana Nambi spoke at a special First Mondays with Rabbi Alex on Monday, Jan. 18. Screenshot by David Rullo
Shoshana Nambi has found a second, virtual home in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.
Nambi, the first Ugandan female rabbinic student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is a member of the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda. She spoke virtually at Temple Emanuel of South Hills in November and appeared at a special “First Mondays with Rabbi Alex” program commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18 at Beth El Congregation of the South Hills.
During the hour-long talk, the future rabbi told the story of the Abayudaya and its struggles, both for survival and legitimacy as a Jewish community. It was a tale familiar to many of the close to 100 Zoom attendees who heard Rabbi Gershom Sizomu recount the details of the Abayudaya and their conversion to Judaism when he visited Beth El in 2016.