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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once described as "a sort of British Indiana Jones," University of London scholar Tudor Parfitt, in this interview with NOVA producer David Espar, recounts his fascinating odyssey on behalf of the ...

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 ...

Noah Tamarkin's research with Lemba people has been supported at different points by the Anthropology Department, University of California Santa Cruz Fulbright IIE US Student Program, Wits Institute ...