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For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) lived together across the lands of North Africa, building ...
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.
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 ...
Jewish Identity in Senegambia -- 3. Religious Interaction: Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in Early Seventeenth-Century Upper Guinea -- 4. The Blade Weapons Trade in Seventeenth-Century West Africa -- 5.
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!” ...
A Jewish publication in South Africa apologized for an Op-Ed that compared Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Adolf Hitler. The online publication South African Jewish Report posted the apology Friday on ...
In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South Africa, where Jewish communities grappled with the local complexities of British imperialism and Zionism. Imber ...
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.
King David Victory Park in Johannesburg is set to close its doors, despite being one of the best-performing schools in South ...