Uganda – Abayudaya

Useful Resources:

Newsletters

Fall 2019

Photos, Videos, and Music

• ONLINE SPEAKER SERIES: Woman Entrepreneurs of Uganda
• Kulanu’s Abayudaya slideshow
• Kulanu’s Abayudaya playlist on Youtube
• Footage from Kulanu’s first mission to Uganda in 1995
• Abayudaya Psalms in Luganda in .pdf file
• The Schools of the Abayudaya Jews a five-minute video by Gabriel Molton in connection with Jemglo.org (2007)
• Purchase CD’s of Abayudaya music in the Kulanu Boutique!

Articles and Links

• A Ugandan rabbinical student in NYC writes a kids’ book about her favorite Jewish holiday, Julia Gergely (2022)

• A Ugandan Jewish Wedding, Rebecca Ottinger (2022)
• How to hatch a Jewish chicken farm in Uganda, Mark Gelfand (2021)

Kulanu’s Work with the Abayudaya

• A Chorus of Mazel Tovs in Uganda, Merissa Nathan Gerson (2017)
• The Hadassah Primary School Computer Lab Needs Your Help (2017)
• The Tzidkaniot: Righteous Women of Kulanu Communities, Bonita Sussman (2016)
• The BCI – Kulanu Partnership: A Source of Learning, Joy, and Power, Rabbi Barbara Aiello (2016)
• In Uganda, coffee coop blends Jewish, Muslim and Christian Farmers by Melanie Lidman, November 17, 2014 (links to the Times of Israel website)
• What’s Happening in Africa: Cameroon, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe by Judy Manelis (2013)
• Changing the Lives of Deaf Children Judy Manelis (2012)
• Kulanu and the Abayudaya: An Overview Katie Rosenthal (2012)
• Two Worlds Meet in Uganda Judy Manelis (2011)
• Promising Anti-Poverty Project Initiated in Abayudaya Village of Namutumba Barbara Vinick (2011)
• Problem Solved! (2011)
• From the Ground Up: Kulanu-Abayudaya Education and Economic Development Laura Wetzler (2010)
• Delicious Peace Spreads to Poorest Villages Laura Wetzler (2009)
• Abayudaya Update: Trip Report Laura Wetzler (2008)
• Lots of Exciting News from Uganda Laura Wetzler (2007)
• It Is a Joy to Do This Work Laura Wetzler (2006)
• Teaching About Childbirth in Uganda (Again) Anne Katz-Jacobson (2007)
• Mayim Chayim: Water is Life! Laura Wetzler (2006)
• The “Mirembe Kawomera” Multi-faith Coffee Project (2005)

Abayudaya History

• Election Part 1 Part 2 Rabbi, Run Matthew Fishbane, Tablet Magazine (2011)
• Mbale’s Jews H. Lunega (2001)
• The Genesis of the Abayudaya Community J. J. Keki (2001)
• Portrait of a Leader: J.J. Keki K. Primack (1999)
• Semei Kakungulu, Jewish Warrior? I. Berg (1995)
• A History of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda A. Oded (website link)

Kulanu Volunteers and Others Visit the Abayudaya

• A Jewish Journey from Uganda to URJ Camp Coleman by Rabbi Noam Katz, MAJE, the Dean of Jewish Living at The Leo Baeck Day School in Toronto, Ontario (2015)
• Celebrating Passover with Uganda’s Jews Jocelyn Frank (2008)
• My D’Var Torah (Bar Mitzvah Speech) in Uganda Zak Cohen (2007)
• My Reprise Visit to Uganda Lynne Elson (2007)
• The Passion of a Young Volunteer Max Yadin (2006)
• Wetzler Receives Rare Award (2006)
• Rabbi Worch Visits the Abayudaya, Part 1: Another Traveler to Uganda
• Rabbi Worch Visits the Abayudaya, Part 2: Shabbes Cholent in Uganda?
• Visiting the Ugandan Miracle K. Primack (1995)
• Women to Women in Uganda R. Posner (1995)

The Abayudaya and the Larger Jewish World

• KULANU- Serving emerging Jewish communities by Molly Levine, Deputy Director of Kulanu – OHR L’naorrr (Spring 2021)
• A Jewish Journey from Uganda to URJ Camp Coleman by Rabbi Noam Katz, MAJE, the Dean of Jewish Living at The Leo Baeck Day School in Toronto, Ontario (2015)
• In rural Uganda, Conservative prayer services with an African lilt by Melanie Lidman, November 13, 2014 (links to the Times of Israel website)
• Gershom Sizomu’s Year in Israel: A Ugandan Jew’s View of Israel as the Promised Land Hilary Leila Krieger (2005)

The Abayudaya Beit Din

• Contemplating Miracles in Uganda Karen Primack (2002)
• A Rabbi’s Sermon About the Beit Din Rabbi Scott Glass (2002)