Published: 7 June 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
A new Jewish community was born last month when 121 men, women and children underwent Orthodox conversions on Madagascar, the remote Indian Ocean island better known for lemurs, chameleons, dense rain forests and vanilla.
See report and video [2:12] here
And see: Judaism’s conversion politics reach Africa November 24, 2015
WJC President Ronald S. Lauder told the heads of Jewish communities from Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe that the WJC is fully committed to preserving and strengthening smaller communities, many of which operate in a difficult environment.
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