Mr. Gershom Sizomu

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  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 years.

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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu and his daughter Daphne light the Sabbath candles on Friday evening on Nabogoya Hill. Photo by Richard Sobol/ZUMA PressRabbi Gershom Sizomu and his daughter Daphnelight the Sabbath candles on Friday evening onNabogoya Hill.Photo by Richard Sobol/ZUMA Press
  
  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 years.Among other activities, the American Jewish University graduate recently supervised about 250 formal conversions to Judaism: men, women and children, ages ranging from 4 to 80, who had been preparing while he was gone for their meeting with the beit din.
  
  'We started the conversions on July 8,' said Sizomu, who spoke with The Journal by cellphone from his Ugandan village. 'And we have continued the conversions throughout the week.People not just from Uganda, but also from Kenya, South Africa and from Ghana.
  
  'We are very happy about how Judaism appeals to Africans,' he continued. 'We are not going out there and asking people to convert.
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  The mass conversions were not the only major event for Sizomu since returning to Uganda.During the same week, he hosted the first-ever meeting of PAJA, the Pan-African Jewish Alliance.
  
  'Jewish community leaders [came] from black African communities in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia,' Sizomu said.

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  African Shabbat, with Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, from Uganda, and Hazzan Mike Stein, from Temple Aliyah, 8:15p.m. Friday, 6025 Valley Circle Blvd., Woodland Hills.Call (818) 346-3545.
  
  Lenten Morning of Quiet Meditations, with the theme "Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane," 8:30a.m. March 17, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 14646 Sherman Way, Van Nuys.Holy Eucharist, 11:30a.m. followed by lunch.Call (818) 785-4251.

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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, his wife, Tziporah, and two of their children, all of eastern Uganda, will perform Jewish music set to African rhythms and melodies with song text in Hebrew, English and several Ugandan languages at Congregation Adath Jeshurun, 2401 Woodbourne Ave., at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

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  In addition, Ugandan Rabbi Gershom Sizomu and his family will attend as special guests.

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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu relates story of Uganda's Abayudaya community
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  If their rabbi, Gershom Sizomu, and Be'chol Lashon (In Every Tongue) - a San Francisco-based Jewish nonprofit organization that works to promote a global Jewish community - have their way, the story of the Ugandan Jews will become widely known in short order.
  
  Sizomu recently visited Minneapolis and served as scholar-in-residence, from May 22-24, at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park. He also spoke to groups of students at the Amos and Celia Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School about life in his villagenear Mbale in eastern Uganda.
  
  During several events throughout the weekend, Sizomu shared the genesis of the Jewish community of Uganda, shed light on the tremendous hostility that the small minority community has endured, and reported on efforts to rebuild the community that almost became extinct under Amin's tyrannical rule.
  
  Sizomu, 40, is the only rabbi in Uganda and the only black rabbi from sub-Saharan Africa to be ordained by an American rabbinic school (he was ordained in 2008 by American Jewish University in Los Angeles). After graduating from rabbinic school, he returned to Uganda and opened a yeshiva to train teachers and rabbis to serve growing Jewish communities throughout Africa.
  
  "It is vital for African Jews to have rabbis from their own countries," he said. "And it is important that Africans and others know that they can choose Judaism as a spiritual path and that we are open to them."
  
  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu spoke and sang recently at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School. (Photo: Tamar Fenton)
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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu spoke and sang recently at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School. (Photo: Tamar Fenton)
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  The Ugandan community does not claim its lineage from one of the lost tribes of Israel, according to Sizomu.
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  Sizomu explained how the small Ugandan Jewish community is helping to improve conditions for its Christian and Muslim neighbors in Uganda by addressing social, educational and economic ills plaguing the entire region. With the support of Be'chol Lashon, the Abayudaya are engaged in a comprehensive health and development project that includes building a health center, preventing disease and developing the economy.
  
  "Rabbi Sizomu really inspired the congregants of Beth El with his stories," said Be'chol Lashon program coordinator Andrew Esensten, who accompanied the rabbi to Minneapolis.
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  For information about Sizomu, the needs of the Abayudaya or Be'chol Lashon, visit: bechollashon.org/projects/abayudaya/projects.php.

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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black rabbi from sub-Saharan Africa to be ordained from an American rabbinic school.
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  Rabbi Sizomu from Uganda recently convened a rabbinic court (beit din) in Uganda that supervised the conversion of over 250 Africans from Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria.

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  Broadcast/Film: Jocelyn Frank, Passover in Uganda, NPR - Explores the celebration of this Jewish holiday led by Rabbi Gershom Sizomu and the infusion of African tradition into Jewish ritual.

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  Rabbi Gershom Sizomu relates story of Uganda's Abayudaya community

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  As a result of USYers' fundraising efforts, Gershom Sizomu was presented with a $15,000 check to go toward building a yeshiva for adults in Uganda.Mr. Sizomu is a member of the Abayudaya tribe, many of whose members have converted to Judaism.He is studying at the Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies in Los Angeles, and when he is ordained in May he will be the first member of his community to become a rabbi.

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