zimbabwe Archives – Jewish Journal

The Transplant From Zimbabwe Who Made Israel His Home

Deborah Danan August 21, 2019

What?! A Passover Seder in a rural African village in ZIMBABWE?

Jewish Journal April 13, 2015

Who knew that just last week, in the year 2015, there was a traditional Pesach Seder (well minus the now-traditional toilets and electricity that is, haha) being held in middle-of-nowhere rural African village called Mepakomhere, Zimbabwe?!

Rabbi attacked by African killer bees in Zimbabwe

Jewish Journal April 4, 2011

A rabbi handing out matzah and wine for Passover to Jews in Zimbabwe was attacked by a swarm of African killer bees. Moshe Silberhaft, the spiritual leader and executive director of the African Jewish Congress known as \”The Traveling Rabbi,\” was making a pre-Passover visit to the 190 Jews left in the beleaguered capital of Harare when he was attacked by the bees while walking from the Ashkenazi synagogue to the Sephardi synagogue on the Shabbat of April 2.

Open Debate Preferable to Blind Support

David N. Myers July 17, 2003

A recent report in The New York Times captured almost perfectly the thorny questions that stand at the center of relations between the American Jewish community and Israel. Should one be permitted to criticize the government of a foreign country with which one feels a deep affinity, or is it a moral and political imperative to support the policies of that government, right or wrong?