A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in this place. This isn’t Israel. It is Mapungubwe Hill, ...

DNA has proven that these sub-Saharan Africans have Semitic origins. But what does it mean to be a black Jew in Zimbabwe? This year is not the first the Lemba of Zimbabwe are celebrating the Jewish ...

On a hot spring morning in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, Modreck Maeresera is packing up for a trip at his quiet suburban home. Maeresera is a leader of Zimbabwe’s Lemba community, which claims ...

Yarmulkes bob as voices swell in a sacred song carried from ancient Judea to the scenic fields of a far-flung southern African village that is home to a "lost tribe" of Israel "We have been singing ...

This year is not the first the Lemba of Zimbabwe are celebrating the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. They have done so twice before. But Modreck Maeresera, president of the Harare ...

Lemba women bring food and water for the men building the community's first synagogue in Mapakomhere in Zimbabwe's Masvingo District, the heart of Lemba territory. This year is not the first the Lemba ...