Gershom Sizomu

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  Published on: 8/6/2009    Last Visited: 8/7/2009  

  Members of the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda, led by Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, last week delivered some 2,420 pounds of food to starving families in his famine-ridden country.
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  We are following the packed pickup in Rabbi Gershom Sizomu's SUV -- four members of his Abayudaya Jewish congregation, two Ugandan TV reporters and me, a semi-retired Canadian journalist volunteering with the Abayudaya.
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  Rabbi Sizomu says he wants to act before the numbers grow worse, before a high death count is needed to trigger a response. He received ordination in the Conservative movement last summer after a year studying in Israel and four years at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He became the first ordained black rabbi in sub-Saharan Africa.
  
  "Central to our Jewish values is saving lives," he tells the 65 families sitting on the ground in the shade of the tree. "We wish you well and we pray that God brings this to an end."
  
  Rabbi Sizomu is responding to a village elder who thanked the Abayudaya for coming "and for rescuing us.
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  "Our community responded overwhelmingly to the call to donate," Rabbi Sizomu says.

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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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  They are (L-R) Dr. Vladimir Kvint, President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets; Yuli Edelstein, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset; Bush; and Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.

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  They are (L-R) Dr. Vladimir Kvint, President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets; Yuli Edelstein, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset; Bush; and Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.

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  Published on: 3/20/2007    Last Visited: 3/20/2007  

  This week, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the leader of about 700 Abayudaya Jews, is bringing a group of musicians from Mbale to perform in Louisville.Sizomu plays guitar and composes music with his wife, Tziporah.

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  Published on: 12/17/2007    Last Visited: 12/17/2007  

  The guests included Jack Abraham, president of the only Afghan synagogue in the United States; Maurice Shohet from Iraq, currently working at the Middle East Research Institute; Dr. Mayer Ballas, the founding president of the Council to Rescue Syrian Jews; Yuli Edelstein, former Soviet refusenik, now deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament; Rabbi Sizomu of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda; Elliott Benjamin, the vice president of the Iranian American Jewish Federation; Dr. Susana Feldman-Naim, a psychiatrist from Venezuela; Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, a colonel in the United States Army Reserve; Dr. Vladimir Kvint from the former Soviet Union, now president, International Academy of Emerging Markets; Rabbi David Shofet from Iran,now of the Nessah Educational and Cultural Center; Rabbi Manny Vinas, Lincoln Park Jewish Center; Holocaust survivors Gerald and Joan Schwab; and Judea and Ruth Pearl, co-founders of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

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  Published on: 8/4/2009    Last Visited: 8/5/2009  

  We are following the packed pickup in Rabbi Gershom Sizomu's SUV-four members of his Abayudaya Jewish congregation, two Ugandan TV reporters and me, a semi-retired Canadian journalist volunteering with the Abayudaya.
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  Rabbi Sizomu says he wants to act before the numbers grow worse, before a high death count is needed to trigger a response. He received ordination in the Conservative movement last summer after a year studying in Israel and four years at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He became the first ordained black rabbi in sub-Saharan Africa.
  
  "Central to our Jewish values is saving lives," he tells the 65 families sitting on the ground in the shade of the tree. "We wish you well and we pray that God brings this to an end."
  
  Rabbi Sizomu is responding to a village elder who thanked the Abayudaya for coming "and for rescuing us.
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  "Our community responded overwhelmingly to the call to donate," Rabbi Sizomu says.

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  Published on: 8/2/2009    Last Visited: 8/3/2009  

  We are following the packed pickup in Rabbi Gershom Sizomu's SUV -- four members of his Abayudaya Jewish congregation, two Ugandan TV reporters and me, a semi-retired Canadian journalist volunteering with the Abayudaya.
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  Rabbi Sizomu says he wants to act before the numbers grow worse, before a high death count is needed to trigger a response. He received ordination in the Conservative movement last summer after a year studying in Israel and four years at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He became the first ordained black rabbi in sub-Saharan Africa.
  
  "Central to our Jewish values is saving lives," he tells the 65 families sitting on the ground in the shade of the tree. "We wish you well and we pray that God brings this to an end."
  
  Rabbi Sizomu is responding to a village elder who thanked the Abayudaya for coming "and for rescuing us.
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  "Our community responded overwhelmingly to the call to donate," Rabbi Sizomu says.

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  Published on: 6/1/2009    Last Visited: 6/30/2009  

  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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  Published on: 4/29/2009    Last Visited: 5/18/2009  

  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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