King Saul's Fortune at the Hands of the Homilists (Reprinted from Conservative Judaism, Vol. 33, No. 3, Spring, 1980, pp.7-21 with the permission of The Rabbinical Assembly).

 

Rabbi Weinberg and the Members of Hollywood Temple Beth El will join Congregation Beth Israel for the High Holy Days

 

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Joint High Holy Days Services for Hollywood Temple Beth El and Congregation Beth Israel

The oldest existing synagogue of Los Angeles  once again invites the oldest existing synagogue of Hollywood to usher in the new Jewish Year of 5786, starting with Rosh Hashanah eve, Monday, September 22, 2025

Cantor Steven Walfish and Rabbinical Scholar Michael Jacoby and the members of Congregation Beth Israel welcome  Rabbi Norbert Weinberg and the members of Hollywood Temple Beth El for joint services. The style will be a blend of the unique liturgy and centuries old cantillation by Cantor and 4-Voice professional choir, together with contemporary readings and inspirations for the period of internal examination and communal cohesion.

The services include  contemporary readings, translations, and transliterations, alongside the ancient Hebrew liturgy to address the spiritual search of the contemporary Jew, with  the classic Jewish soul music of the season to elevate the mood.

This year, services will be held  at this temporary  location:

8338 Beverly Blvd, 2nd floor, between Kings and Flores, Los Angeles, CA 90048.

Street parking is available as Los Angeles waives restrictions on the High Holy Days.

Admission to services is based on pre-registration for security and safety of all concerned and a donation to help us meet our costs and to continue to provide Jewish teaching is highly welcome.

To register through Hollywood Temple Beth El, online to

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rosh-hashanah-and-yom-kippur-2025-tickets-1555186156659

 or mail to : Hollywood Temple Beth El, 1317 N Crescent Heights Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046.

To register through Congregation Beth Israel, mail to 8338 Beverly Blvd, 2nd floor,  Los Angeles, CA 90048  or call to 323-651-4022 and leave name and phone number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Schedule
Rosh Hashanah Eve: Monday, September 22, 6:15 p.m.
Rosh Hashanah, 1st Day: Tuesday, September 23, 9:30 a.m.
Rosh Hashanah, 2nd Day: Wednesday, September 24, 9:30 a.m.
Yom Kippur Eve, Kol Nidrei: Wednesday, October 1: 6:15 p.m. Time?
Yom Kippur Day, Thursday: October 2: 9:30 a.m.
Yizkor: 11:30a.m. Neilah: 6:00 p.m.

 

 

About:

Rabbi Norbert Weinberg has served  as Rabbi of Hollywood Temple since the 1990’s. He is also President of Memory in Action, a research project preserving the story of Los Angeles Jewry with implications for the future, www.pastfuturememory.org . Weinberg has run educational services, both general and Jewish, in the US and Israel, and has published a volume on 20^th century European Jewish history, Courage of the Spirit. He blogs at www.rabbiweinberg.com.

About:

From the time he could stand, Cantor Steven Walfish was on the Bima singing with his father, renowned Cantor Hershel Walfish at Congregation Beth Israel, acting as assistant Cantor by Bar Mitzvah age. Walfish joined the cantorial staff at Stephen S. Wise Temple from 1999 till  2007, when he returned to Congregation Beth Israel as Executive Director and Cantor. He spearheaded the redevelopment of Congregation Beth Israel, including a senior housing project planned for 2025.

 

About Michael Jacoby

Scholar Michael Jacoby received his early education at Emek and Rambam Torah Institute, and then continued Judaic studies in Talmud and Jewish history at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel and at Brandeis University, He has been active in Zionist youth movements, and has  led Hebrew and Jewish literature seminars at Camp Ramah. He has been serving as scholar in residence at  Congregation Beth Israel for the past six years.

 

Norbert Weinberg Arrives in Israel Just in Time for War- Interview with Ari Noon, Jewish Journal, August 2, 2025

 

As you can tell from my previous blog, I spent the 12 Day War mostly hunkered down because of Iranian missile attacks. 

I recently gave an interview to Ari Noonan, veteran reporter for the Jewish Journal. The interview appeared on August 2, 2026.

You can open the full text by following the link:

https://77360759.flowpaper.com/250808/#page=54

When you open the link, there is a tool box on the top that allows you to enlarge the page view by sliding the white ball to the right/

Here is a screenshot of the interview:

The 12 Day War from Inside Israel

 

The 12 Day War from Inside Israel- Rabbi Norbert Weinberg

[Note: . All photos, unless marked otherwise are proprietary to the author]

Everyone said we are living through history!

Israel this summer is  like a Mark Chagall painting, a modern Vitebsk,   when nothing is where it should be, up is down and down is up, and there are no proportions or perspective. The other analogies could be drawn from a tale by Kafka, again, a verbal description of a surrealistic world.

 

( Marc Chagall, I and the Village. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Chagall,_I_and_the_Village_(50394064557).jpg)

 

 

We have been here in Israel from the very first night of what is called the “12 Day War”. Getting here itself was  Kafkaesque,  because every flight that we scheduled had to be rescheduled over and over again, thanks to the Houthis landing a missile near Ben Gurion airport . To boot, our luggage was lost in Paris, and sent to Amsterdam instead of Tel Aviv.

 

Ofra and I had come to visit our family members and to check up on our grandson who is serving IDF(Israel Defense Forces) as a “Lone Soldier” ( the term for a non-native Israeli who has come to volunteer in the IDF) like many other young Jews who have come here to serve . I won’t belabor his function in the IDF but let us say that he has seen what young people should never have to see. These lone soldiers have been given endless support from volunteers who host Shabbat and Kiddush Lunch  and special activities;  our grandson was essentially adopted by a host family, who opened their home to him. Another Israeli family we met had made it their practice to host Israeli soldiers at their home for BBQ and  drop off fresh fruits as a treat to soldiers. Perhaps Israelis can't talk to each other , but they also  love to help each other.

We had planned to visit friends and travel around but spent the next 12 days mostly sitting on the balcony of our in-law's  apartment, 22 floors up, overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, so serene and peaceful , while down below, we could see a few individuals, on the first days, strolling the streets.

(View of the Kotel, Dome of the Rock, and Mt. Olives from the balcony)

We even had a peek at a wedding taking place on the rooftop of the next building.

( Wedding next door)

 

At night, it was a different world. Courtesy of the Ayatollah regime, we woke up two or three times every night with alerts coming on our phones and then sirens, rushed to the Mamad (shelter) locked the secure door, and waited it out for a half hour till the all clear. This meant that for 12 days neither we nor anyone else in Israel could have an easy night's sleep.

(The one-and-one-half- minute-to-scramble warning on our phones)

Mostly, that's all that we could do, especially in the first few days.

As Israel’s Defense Forces undertook one of the most ambitious military gambits in history ( the  Mission Impossible producers  would never greenlight this venture), and  systematically took out the Iranian regime’s missile capability ( and political and military leadership to boot) we began to step out more and more gingerly on to Jaffa Street and Machane Yehudah market next door, all the while checking if we could find a shelter to run to nearby.

Gradually we could make our way further away without having to worry if there was a bomb shelter next door. The situation was relatively easier in Jerusalem. However, in much of Israel, the situation was truly frightening and tragic; buildings  collapsed and people were trapped inside,  28 were killed, over 3200 injured, 13, 000 displaced. The Weizman Institute of Science was damaged, and with it, years of life saving medical research, an entire hospital wing ruined, and even a historic mosque damaged. Iranian missiles landed on people of all faiths, whether civilian or military.

We began to venture out  to Machane Yehudah  as life came back gradually to normal, in a Chagallesque fashion. People were out buying produce once again, the market stalls were well stocked,  and like the famous “Fiddler on the Roof” (a Chagall figure long before the musical)  there was a “Guitarist in the Shuk” ( market), a Chasid  with a long beard and peyot strumming and singing  for us all.

( Guitarist in the Shuk)

For a brief reel: 

https://youtube.com/shorts/qiE0pGww9PM?si=M4yF8uypxDqIZ1ao

(The market)

Sheshbesh and window shopping the market:

https://youtube.com/shorts/P50A8rGUPaA?si=UTC0H75DSRVJrBZ6

(spice shop)

 

The shuk was filled with such Chagallesque types as traditional Hasidim, hipster Chasidim ( ditto  with long peyot, curls,  and tzitziot,  but dressed in cool, hip clothes) ,  regular Israelis, if there is such a thing, a few tourists and quite a number of  foreign workers from all over the world.

Add to this world of upside-down, downside-up, all flights back were cancelled and we scrambled to sign on to emergency return flights with the US Consulate and El Al airlines. We  were put on a waiting list of 50,000 people, scheduled to leave on flights of 50 people per plane, a few per day. I calculated that it would take about 3 months to get us out at that pace. The other options were to board a cruise ship to Larnaca, and be stuck in Cyprus with tens of thousands of Israelis who were trying to get back in, or sneak out through Egypt or Jordan, not very savory options at this point. We held out till El Al resumed normal flights.

We woke up on day 12 to the news of B-2 bombers making short shrift of the Islamist Republic’s precious nuclear program ( Thank you, POTUS! Proud to be an American!). We understood very well that this was possible only because Israel had spent years of preparation, planting agents ala Mata Hari, prepositioning weapons inside Iran, and eliminating Iran’s top military and political echelons, as well as  air defense and offense capability . We realized now we had woken up to a completely changed Middle East; Hamas is at best, dogs hiding with tails between the legs,  Hezbollah is knee capped (“ Let Lebanon be Lebanon”), a new Syria makes overtures of peace to Israel, and  the Islamist Republic is exposed as the naked emperor. Again, as in a Chagall painting, Americans and Europeans were applauding the Palestinians and the Iranians, chanting Death to the IDF, and at the same time,  idealistic Europeans marched to liberate the poor Gazans,  arrive at the Egyptian border,  only to be beaten up by the Egyptian police and even civilians who did not want any help getting to Gaza!

[Note-my friends who are active in Iranian-Jewish affairs want us to be aware that our war is not with the Iranian peoples but with the Fascist Regime that kidnapped the revolution of 1979 and robbed the people of their essential freedoms.]

And on the 13^th Day--It  was is if nothing had happened. Traffic was back to frustrating as normal.

( Traffic jam, 2 ½ hours for a 1 hour trip, Jerusalem to Natanya)

Israelis started shopping like mad, to make up for two weeks of pent-up angst,as in Malcha Mall, Jerusalem.

( Typical shoppers in Malcha Mall)

Music and Food Make their comeback at Kikar Hamusika-Music Square

https://youtube.com/shorts/9_fa1u_U-G4?si=pGZeep62UscS65Fy

https://youtube.com/shorts/gtoR4WRIf1g?si=tq_p2obDqJ0Mwp1j

And, overlooking the old city, at Armon Hanatsiv, a Food Truck and Laser Lights and  Music festival every Tuesday evening

https://youtube.com/shorts/C9cVuC5e9Vw?si=8XZcVP_WlIWla9jx

 

In this supposedly “ apartheid” State, the customers, as well as the staff, are Arab, Jew, and a mixed gathering, all mingling freely. At the annual book fair in Jerusalem, the guards protecting us were Arabs.( How can one distinguish traditional Jewish and Muslim women?, The facial features are similar, and many Jews are as dark or darker, than their Arab counterparts, many of whom are actually fair-skinned. So, it comes down to hair covering. Both cover their hair; traditional Muslim women cover all the hair and the neck, but wear pants, whereas traditional Jewish women cover most of the hair, not the neck, and don’t wear pants.)

One very bright aspect of all of this is the kind of unity and closeness that Israelis have been feeling with each other even when they can't talk to each other.

The hostages are on everyone’s mind, and so are the fallen soldiers, so there is, everywhere, an in-your-face reminder of the heavy price paid to get them back and to eliminate any repeat of October 7.

( At the door to Gan Sippur Café in Jerusalem).

We went to the grave of our grand-nephew, Sgt Nadav Issachar  Farhi. He was a combat medic and was due to be released; he chose to stay on just a little longer, to help his unit, but was murdered in ambush in Gaza. His favorite motto was “Hakuna Matata”.

( Grave of Nadav Issachar Farhi, z”l))

He was one of the first casualties buried there. Since then, that plot has, sadly, filled up.

(Mt Herzl Cemetery)

 

One parting thought.

We know what the symbol is of Hamas--crossed swords.

 

 

(Cropped version . This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Hamas_Vector_Graphic.svg)

 

What image can we pick for ourselves- besides the Menorah, or the Star of David? Then, I came across this sticker, pasted on a car window,courtesy of the “Be in Simcha” Breslover Chasidim: A smiley face, with side curls, and a “Nachman” beanie, and the words  Ahavah Bekamut Gevohah, “Love, in huge amounts.”

 

(Image of Breslaver smiley face)

 Yes, Hamas and the like offer the sword, and we must return the sword if needed, but our goal is to reach this kind of “Love, in huge amounts” at the end of the day. Rebbe Nachman, who was the intellectual and spiritual predecessor of Kafka and Chagall, would have agreed.

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PS  Books and Jews, as Poeple of  the Book, are never far apart. Even in the age of online media, Israelis still read books. The summer book fair was on at Kikar Safra( near the City Hall).

We also went to the new National Library in Jerusalem, where I was allowed for an inside view of  Robo-Librarian

Watch RoboLibrarian at work

https://youtube.com/shorts/LCqRMVrgrew?feature=share

Inside the reading room for those who still love flipping real pages,

The Jews of Sub-Saharan Africa-Focus on the Abayudaya of Uganda--See updates at end

 

The Jews of Sub-Saharan Africa-Focus on  the Abayudaya of Uganda

Rabbi Norbert Weinberg

 

Jews have had a presence in sub-Saharan Africa well before modern times.

Josephus, who wrote the first comprehensive history of the Jews nearly 2000 years ago, records Moses conquering Ethiopia, and the Bible itself recounts Moses taking an Ethiopian wife. Centuries later, the ancient Israelites, in coordination with their neighbors, the Phoenicians, sailed down the Red Sea to and through the Horn of Africa, and some 2500 years ago there  was a Jewish military outpost on the Nile at the edge of modern day Sudan. In the Middle Ages, a wandering preacher, by the name of Eldad Hadani  brought tales of Israelite tribes in Africa, living  a protected life behind a sacred river , Sambatyon.

 

Whatever the actual history, throughout Africa, we find communities that identify themselves as Jews or Israelites. The largest and best documented such group is the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, sometime referred to as “Falasha”. ( See background  referenced ,  “A vanished Community Reappears in the 20th century-The Story of the Beta Israel of Ethiopia” , under  the  tab  https://pastfuturememory.org/beyond-yiddish-and-ladino ).

There are  others!

The Amazing Work of Kulanu.org

 

One organization which has been involved in outreach to diverse communities around the world that identify themselves as Jews is Kulanu. This backgrounder  is from their website:

 

Kulanu means “all of us” in Hebrew. We seek to create an inclusive Jewish world. Founded in 1994, we support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the world. Some are discovering Judaism for the first time, others reinvigorating a forgotten practice, but all have experienced some kind of disconnection from global Jewry.

We raise awareness and support to assist these groups with their desire to learn more about Judaism and connect with Jews beyond their community. The connections we forge – through education, research, networking, fundraising, sustainable development, and publications – help “all of us” to enrich our Jewish lives.

Our backgrounds are diverse in terms of location and denomination, but we are bound by a common commitment to developing Judaism and Jewish life for all who seek this for themselves. You can meet our team( https://kulanu.org/about/staff-and-board/)  here and learn about our partner communities ( https://kulanu.org/communities/ ) here. We encourage you to join “all of us” by getting involved with Kulanu!( https://kulanu.org/get-involved/)

 Kulanu communities are found in 33 countries, on five continents, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.  Kulanu provides Jewish resources to groups such as prayer books, mezuzot, and Torah scrolls. It has helped with the construction of synagogues and mikvaot (ritual baths) and has taught kosher slaughtering when possible.  Kulanu serves as a teaching resource, connecting rabbis, cantors, and Jewish educators of all denominations with Kulanu communities

If you are excited about their projects, you can donate to them:

https://kulanu.org/donate/ .( For more information, contact: Molly Levine, Executive Director Email: molly@kulanu.org Phone: (646) 285-8815)

 

Discover the Abayudaya Jews of  Uganda :

 

When Theodore Herzl began planning a Jewish homeland, the British made him an offer of settling Jews in Uganda. Although he toyed with the idea, as a temporary measure, the Zionist Movement rejected the idea, as Jews had a historical claim to only one land, the Land of Israel. No one could then imagine that there would be a full blown State of Israel within a half century after Herzl founded the Zionist movement, but also, no one could have imagined that  shortly afterwards,  a major leader in Uganda would look to the Torah and Judaism for guidance.

The Genesis of the Abayudaya Community

By JJ Keki (August 2001)

The Abayudaya Community was founded in 1917 by Semei Kakungulu, a Muganda military general who had distinguished himself as a talented and committed soldier.

After his close reading of the Bible, Kakungulu developed a religious belief that would be similar to that of the children of Israel. A close study of the Bible revealed to them that God’s love is great for gentiles who choose to observe the Torah (Isaiah 56:2, Zacharia 8:23). Encouraged with this revelation, Kakungulu, his sons and the entire community circumcised themselves and promised to circumcise their new baby boys at the age of eight days as God commanded Abraham. This prompted the neighbouring communities to name Kakungulu and the members of his new faith “the Jews, Christ killers,” a derogatory statement aimed at discouraging Kakungulu and his followers, but instead he made a famous announcement( in the Luganda language): “From today onwards, we are Jews (Abayudaya)”; henceforth they proclaimed Saturday as a day of rest (Shabbat) and they started to observe the festivals as outlined in the Torah.

Joseph, a Jew from Jerusalem, stayed with the community for 6 months in the 1920’s, teaching about observance. The community had slightly more than 3000 followers by then.[ For the rest of the story , go to https://kulanu.org/communities/uganda/genesis-abayudaya-community/ ]

  Here are some background links: 

https://kulanu.org/communities/uganda/

Slide show about community

https://kulanu.smugmug.com/Timeless/Kulanu-Abayudaya-Slideshow/i-VJVHJCH

History:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/a-history-of-the-abuyudaya-jews-of-uganda

 In the process of writing this article, I had the pleasure of coming into online contact with some of the members.

 

This community is known as Abayudaya:

Here is their account, as sent to me by one of the members of the community,

 Isaac Mosh Sharutovu  

 We are Abayudaya. The word Abayudaya is a Luganda word meaning the People of Judah Son of Jacob. In Uganda, Judaism was founded by Semei Kakungulu. He was a Ugandan from Central Uganda. Since he was an agent of the missionaries, he was given miles of land in Eastern Uganda. He was also given the Christian Bible to spread Christianity. However, when he dug deeper into the Old Testament (Torah, Ketuvim and Nevi'im), he diverted from the way of Christianity and followed the Jewish culture. He circumcised himself. He had a great influence and taught  Judaism to many people around him,  including our grandparents. And by the end of 1919, over 8000 Abayudaya existed in Uganda. There's much about him that I cannot exhaust now.

Unfortunately, he died in 1928. This led to a very great decline in the population of Abayudaya. Many people diverted to other religious sectors. But before his death, he served a very big piece of land to the Nabugoye Jewish community since it was the only Jewish center then.

On seeing that the community was declining at a high speed, Samson Mugombe ( one of the students of Semei) took on the leadership of the community in 1936. He worked hand in hand with my grand father together with other elders of the community. He reorganized the community which helped to stabilize the community. One of the major factors that was decreasing the Jewish population was intermarriage. So they all decided to marry only Jewish women. These grandparents held strong friendships among themselves. On Shabbat, my grandfather could prepare food and call the whole congregation to dine with him freely. By then my grandfather was the chairman of the community.

In 1971, Idi Amin Dada became the president of Uganda. He was too rude. He outlawed all small populated religions labelling them as cult religions. Only Christianity and Islam were the accepted religions in his regime. This was a generation of our mothers and fathers who were young then. All people prayed incognito and it was an offence to be found in prayer. The Abayudaya kids who went to school were forced into Christian services and many people this time round changed to other religions. Some of the most conservative parents never took their children to school. At  school, Jewish kids were mocked by others as people who killed Jesus.[ Editors note: This was the same notorious dictator who enabled the hijacking of an Air France  plane by Palestinian terrorists  to Entebbe, which resulted in the daring rescue led by Israeli forces in 1978.]

On 11th, April 1979 (First day of Passover by then). Idi Amin Dada was overthrown and a new government that provided freedom of worship came up. However at this moment, the land that Kakungulu had given to the Abayudaya had been taken over by the Christians and it's here that the new generation then led by Jonadav Keki fought hard to claim back the land. This was the same generation of my father. Jonadav was the master planner. He formed a youth team that fought to bring back the land. This team suffered the beating from  Christians and never ending arrests. They persisted until they got back the land although some of it still remained for the Christians. They made bricks and built the synagogue and all made sure they marry fellow Jewish people so as to maintain the Jewish culture in families. With time they became known to outside Jewish communities who helped much in building a secondary school (Semei Kakungulu High School and Hadassah Primary School).These schools have done great in providing Jewish education to the Abayudaya kids in the community. Also the community was chanced to get someone to study and become a Rabbi. Rabbi Gershom Sizomu was chosen and he became the ordained Rabbi of the Jewish communities in Uganda. Many Jewish communities were set up in Uganda with time however some others were setup during the hard times of Amin. Currently we have many Abayudaya communities in Uganda ,over 13 and my father is the chairman of Nabugoye Jewish community.

 

Isaac is trying to help feed needy people and also construct a building for the children’s Hebrew classes: Here is his project page on FB

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1497910757320330/permalink/2045024055942328/

 

This is his FB profile https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084497266628

He is also organizing the sale of hand crafted kippot at $20 each $20 plus shipping by mail. He uses the xoom.com payment system ( a Paypal payment) . I suggest contacting him directly at moshisaac12@gmail.com for details. If anyone has a marketing expertise to help him bring these and other crafts to a wider audience, please contact him.

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Meet Wambi Joel:

 

 

Here is his story as told on You Tube

https://youtu.be/HbUh4jP68WM?si=ijmjXHtnx4-nvA6_

Chanukah

Outdoor synagogue

 

 

I'm Wambi Joel from Uganda  Africa,  I and my wife Gonza Hellen suggested to start an orphanage organization since we grew up in an orphanage life.  We feel happy to care for orphans, we are based on Jewish   basis because we are Jewish from Ahavat Yisrael Jewish community Uganda  and I ,Wambi Joel, work as the Hazan in the Synagogue.  Gonza Hellen is the matron and most especially cares for girls but we work together as a group to help our children.  The orphanage Name is SHALOM CHILDREN'S CARE CENTER ORPHANAGE ORGANIZATION UGANDA .Dduring covid 19 in 2020 and 2021 we were participating in” We Sing ,We Stay Together” program of singing Shabbat morning services, which  we recorded and posted  on YouTube for subscriptions

[ Here is a playlist of chants by the members of the community. Enjoy the voices and  the vibes

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNHeBWV6MpDSp-Yl1zhS7VLJhBRtJ_jTw&si=zSb2Zoa_X_iJ4tgi  ]

 

.  We practice Judaism whenever we are at home with children when they leave school.  We rent the houses children sleep in, we have  52 children and all are at school but things are not moving well since we have no sources of funds to get all basic needs for these children.  Uncle John from Kansas city helped us to open up a Go fund me page where we try to share to different people who can donate a little support and we buy some little food for these children to eat daily since we receive little donations,  we always find much difficulty in feeding,  paying rent per month,  paying for school tuition and requirements for all children to go to school,  medical bills for sick children and clothes.  We always pray to Hashem to help us get some donors and sponsors for our orphanage so that we can raise these children in a healthy condition and provide them with every basic need.  We would like to start farming this coming season if we get funds where by we shall decrease on  shortage of food if we start growing crops. 

How to help:

I spoke to John Atherton, of Kansas City, who is himself a Gospel and Folk Music singer, and has been helping out various charities in Uganda. One of his representatives went to the Shalom Children’s Care Center and was impressed by the efforts they are making for the children.

He has set up a Go-Fund Me page for  Shalom Children's Care Center in Magada village, Namutumba district, Uganda, East Africa.

“Hellen needs a way to have a sustainable source of income to feed, house, and otherwise care for over 50 children, most of whom are orphans. The orphans here have needs like school fees, food, clothes and mattresses and medical treatments for the orphans. She will start a ladies' hair salon for income to pay rent, provide tuition, school supplies, medicine, and food.”

https://www.gofundme.com/f/shalom-childrens-care-center?fbclid=IwY2xjawIa_CEBHdqTa3VkHFiKJutwzFtmBdptFs4PClkuTEyeYOIpPP9ri7XxkEO_LrUjbQ.

His great hope is to raise about US$ 33,000 for the materials needed to create a chicken farm. Given the current loss of poultry in the US due to Avian flu, this could be a valuable and self-sustaining source of support for these children. Anyone with connections to agribusiness could be a huge help here!

For more information, contact Wambi Joel atwambijoel83@gmail.com

 Kahal Kadosh Abayudaya

 

 

The continent of Africa is poised to become the greatest source of skilled labor for the next generation—worldwide. This project, by David Kabala , is set to put the Abayudaya community on the right footing fro the future:

 

Kahal Kadosh Abayudaya Training Centre is dedicated to empowering women, young mothers, and youths in our community by equipping them with essential vocational skills. Our mission is to foster personal and professional growth through hands-on training in various fields, ensuring that our participants gain the knowledge and confidence to thrive in today’s competitive environment.

Kahal Kadosh Abayudaya Training Center was established on 17th July,2023, with the objective of providing hand skills /trainings to widows ,orphans and young adults in order to enhance their home income to reduce poverty among them.

However,Kahal Kadosh Abayudaya Training Center is limited with the training space. It is on that background that we are seeking $27,550 to enable us construct the training center because where we are now operating,we just rent and the cost of renting is high. Check our website: https://kahalkadosh.com/

 

Posted by  David Kabala ( on FB ) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086872118446

Here is the Go Fund Me Page

https://www.gofundme.com/f/construction-of-kahal-kadosh-abayudaya-training-center

Here are some of their projects:

A Fisheries Program:

 

 

Tailoring Crafts for Women

Here are some finished products ready for market: Contact Kahal Kadosh for orders.

Training Programs:

• Tailoring. Our program equips participants with essential tailoring skills such as product development, pattern drafting, and garment construction, fostering their employability and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Hair Dressing. This initiative equips participants with hands-on proficiency in hairdressing techniques tailored to local community needs and preferences.
• Electrical Engineering. This diploma program prepares students to become knowledgeable and skilled technicians capable of installing, operating, maintaining, and repairing
• Driving and Mechanics. This training is offered for those applicants who want to train drivers of the various license grades. The course is conducted in both theoretical and practical
• Metal Fabrication. This program equips students with the practical expertise and technical understanding required to join, shape, and fabricate metal components using various
• Electronic. This program equips students with the knowledge and skills required for the installation, operation, and maintenance of communication systems and electronic
• Repairing. Learners of this course are able to diagnose problems and repair common Electronic Devices like Radio, TV, Phones, Computers, woofers etc. Electronics mechanics
• Carpentry. The course will give students a hands on experience in all processes involved in producing specified furniture items
• Computer studies. The program covers various fields such as computer systems design, network analysis, database administration, and mobile computing.
• Cake making and Bakery Management. The Baking and Pastry program prepares students for career opportunities in bakeries, restaurants, catering, hotels, and other foodservice businesses.
• Poultry Keeping. The overall objective of this course is to equip students with knowledge and skills required for poultry production as a business.
• Fisheries. Learn the skills to manage and sustainably develop the fisheries industry with KKA
• Crop Management. The program encompasses a key course of Farm practices and special Projects designed to provide students with daily hands-on practical experience on the farm.
• Detergent Making. Making liquid soap and detergent is one of the more lucrative skills in Uganda. Let's get you started! Attend our classes or book a one on one

 

Contact

• Phone: +256775217964
• WhatsApp: +256707983679
• Email: info@abayudaya.org
  kahalkadosh1@gmail.com
• Address: Nakigalo Cell, Aisa Ward, Northern City Division, Mbale, Uganda
• Working Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am - 5pm

 

Watch for this movie, soon to be released: The Cave Synagogue ,which tells the story of bravery and persistence, as the practice of Judaism was forbidden in Uganda in the 1970's  under Idi Amin.

https://youtu.be/uDNO3p6BuGU?si=9iQzofOymh_a4yng

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