Wednesday, July 16, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
JTA: Africans convert in Uganda ceremony - 'More than 250 Africans converted to Judaism in Uganda. Last week's mass conversion was supervised by Gershom Sizomu, Africa's first native-born black rabbi, and other Conservative rabbis from the United States. The ceremony in the Abayudaya village of Nabogoye included converts from Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. Some 800 Abayudayans formally converted to Judaism in 2002...'
