Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black sub-Saharan rabbi ordained at an American rabbinical school, has had a very busy time since returning to Uganda in June, after not having lived there for five ...

During a recent Shabbat service here, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu led dozens of worshippers in a prayer for unity. Women sang psalms. Children clapped. Men wearing yarmulkes played drums and guitars ...

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu leads a service at the Stern Synagogue in Mbale, Uganda, on Nov. 17, 2018. The Abayudaya community has been embroiled in a conflict between Orthodox and Conservative Jews.

In the documentary, "Moving Heaven and Earth," an American Jew describes spying an African, Gershom Sizomu, amid the white expatriates in a Nairobi synagogue in the 1990s." ...

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale welcomed the chief rabbi of Uganda, Gershom Sizomu, into its chapel on Tuesday evening to share the story of his life and the Jewish community in ...

As Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni celebrated yet another election success in late February—he has been in power for 30 years—Rabbi Gershom Sizomu and his followers in the remote eastern ...

On February 19, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the century-old Abayudaya Jewish community, was named the winner in a heated race among eight candidates, including two main rivals ...

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, leader of Uganda’s Jewish community, dismantling the old synagogue in Nabagoye. (Courtesy of Be’chol Lashon) ...

Less than two hours after stepping off the last plane on a series of flights from Uganda, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu stood ready to acquaint the West with the budding Jewish community in his home ...

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu confirmed a report in Haaretz last week that the Israeli Interior Ministry had denied a community member’s immigration application.

NEW HAVEN — Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is the spiritual leader of Uganda’s 2,000 Jews, a tiny portion of the east African nation’s 41.5 million people. But he knows he and his people, who will ...

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu leads music during a service at the Stern Synagogue of the Abayudaya, who practice Conservative Judaism, in Mbale, Uganda, in November 2018. Religion News Service photo by Tonny ...