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Lemba Jewish community leader embarks on North American speaking tour
Modreck Maeresera, a leader of the Lemba Jewish community in Zimbabwe, will be visiting Temple Emanu-El in Port Richmond a neighborhood situated in Staten Island (one of the five boroughs of New York City, United States) on February 22-23 as part of a North American speaking tour. The tour, which began on February ... Zimbabwe’s Lemba member to guest speak at US university
In the United States, they will be learning about the Lemba of Zimbabwe. A visiting member of Zimbabwe’s Lemba Jewish community is scheduled to intervene as a guest speaker. Florida International University research professors Nathan Katz and Tudor Parfitt will teach the class “The Jews of Asia and Africa,” which will be open ...
Lemba guitarist takes interest in his African-Jewish heritage for new album
When I first met Hamlet Zhou, he was the guitarist in Andy Brown and the Storm, for years one of Zimbabwe’s most popular and exciting bands. At the time, I was based in Zimbabwe, where Hamlet was born and had lived his entire life. I had come there to do film and ... Congregation for Humanistic Judaism seeks study materials for schools in Zimbabwe
Books for Zim (pictures), a project of Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, has collected more than 1,600 pounds of books for delivery to village schools in Zimbabwe through a partnership with US-Africa Children’s Fellowship. Relly Coleman, a congregation member, founded the project in 2005 after a family trip to Zimbabwe to celebrate the 90th ... Judaism
RelZim.org articles about Judaism in Zimbabwe The Zimbabwe Jewish Community is part of a greater grouping African Jewish Congress, whose spiritual leader and executive director is Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft. It once numbered 7,000 but now has only a few hundred members. Jewish settlement dates back to the the beginning of the 20th century and, in ...
Academic Research
For materials before 2000, see Religion in Zimbabwe: A Selected Bibliography, based on items listed by Sara Rich Dorman, Inclusion and Exclusion: NGOs and Politics in Zimbabwe, Oxford (2001) (pdf) and Hilde Arntsen, The Battle of the Mind: International New Media Elements of the New Religious Political Right in Zimbabwe ...
Islamic Community
RelZim.org articles about Muslims in Zimbabwe About 1% of Zimbabweans (100,000) are Muslim (various statistics). In the past two decades, the Islamic community has begun proselytizing among the majority indigenous population with some success. There are mosques located in nearly all of the larger towns (including 18 mosques in the ...
Evangelical Churches
Most churches of evangelical character in Zimbabwe belong to the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, founded in 1962. EFZ has as members over 120 denominations and 20 para-church organizations, who represent over two million faithful. See also the separate listing of Pentecostal and African Initiated Churches. Some major groups or large ...