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Ugandan rabbi: ‘We as a Jewish community need to be treated like any other Jewish community’

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu leads Uganda's Jewish community. (Courtesy of Be'chol Lashon)

(JTA) — A Ugandan rabbi called on Israel to recognize his community after the government ruled against allowing members to move to the Jewish state. Rabbi Gershom Sizomu confirmed a report in Haaretz last week that the Israeli Interior Ministry had denied a community member’s immigration application. The Interior… Read more »