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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba. This ...

Zimbabwe is not a popular tourist destination for Americans Jews, or Americans at all. But in October of last year, we — a retired lawyer and a retired health care executive from New York City — went ...

‘I can walk on both sides of the street,” is how researcher, photographer, and visual artist William Rasdell refers to his knack for switching from street slang to highbrow academic speak. But judging ...

Endless videos on the internet portray one of Cyprus’ most famous artefacts as the Goddess of Death – great story, but they are all hoax Cyprus often comes top of various lists. Sometimes it’s a ...

Despite his relative inexperience as a track and field athlete, Nickens Lemba has high expectations of himself. “To get like Usain Bolt,” Lemba said of the long-striding eight-time Olympic gold ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...