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Pic: FZY
August 23, 2023, 6:05 pm
FZY sends 22 youth volunteers to Ghana on 10-day community programme
'Netina Ghana' initiative is a collaboration with the Jewish Agency for Israel
By Michelle Rosenberg
November 30, 2022, 9:37 am
OPINION: How Ghana became the setting for a seminal Jewish experience
With the help of Chabad in the African state, acclaimed writer David Patrikarakos laid tefillin for the first time and confounded his expectations about a very Jewish encounter
By David Patrikarakos
Lemba community members, in Manavhela, Limpopo Province, South Africa
April 9, 2021, 7:49 pm
Life inside Africa’s Jewish communities caught on camera
Photographer Jono David tells Francine Wolfisz about discovering some of the more rarely-known communities in his new book, The Jews of Africa
By Francine Wolfisz
A Ben Azzai group and Rabbi Daniel Epstein with Shea Butter co-op founder Joanna (in green dress) at a women’s co-op in Tamale, Ghana
December 22, 2017, 1:29 pm
Chief Rabbi and Tzedek send students to Ghana to learn social responsibility
High-achieving youngsters spend an immersive week in West Africa learning about widespread challenges faced in Ghana on the Ben Azzai project.
By Jenni Frazer
Tribe Ghana
November 24, 2017, 11:16 am
Ten days in Ghana that changed the way 20 Jewish students see the world
Tribe Ghana participants spent 10 days helping run a camp in a village near the mostly-Muslim city of Tamale
By Stephen Oryszczuk
The initiative of the Chief Rabbi last year took 16 Jewish students to the slums of Mumbai. This year, it will send participants to a Muslim-majority area of Ghana, to experience Jewish social responsibility in Africa.
August 15, 2017, 2:41 pm
Students to see extreme poverty in Ghana on Chief Rabbi’s initiative
Participants on the Ben Azzai Programme will visit the Muslim-majority city of Tamale to experience extreme poverty that blights the area
By Jewish News Reporter
Spiritual leader Alex Armah, centre, with community members at shacharit (morning) service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, House of Israel Jewish Community in New Adiembra, Ghana. Photographed in February 2014
September 19, 2016, 5:26 pm
Meet the world’s most isolated Jewish communities
Stephen Oryszczuk meets Jono David, who spent four years visiting the world’s most isolated Jewish communities
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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