Jews from the Ugandan Abayudaya community participating in the Shabbat Project. (Courtesy)
Seven boys from the Abayudaya Jewish community celebrate their bar mitzvah, October 18, 2014. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
Abayudaya youth on an unprecedented Birthright trip to Israel head to the Western Wall on August 27, 2018 (Screenshot)
The Abayudaya community has grown from 300 in 1980 to over 2,000 today. Here, a group poses in front of a sukkah. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
JTA American Jews with ties to a small community of Jews in Uganda are condemning a decision by Israel’s Interior Ministry to reject the right of those Jews to immigrate to Israel.