What i find fascinating is the rare incidence of community efforts at conversion, rather than the spate of genuine giyur candidates. These burgeoning African communities are also not isolating themselves [like Christian cults do], but are actively sharing resources in a larger regional network of community coops (similar to the early Kibbutzim movement), who identify with Judaism and express their solidarity with Israel and its diasporic people (arguably comparable to earlier Hasidic movements of Eastern Europe). Their effort at maintaining mitzvot in a largely Christian nation as Kenya is not so different from American Jewry [where over 80% of its increasingly mediocre populace identify with some manifestation of Christianity]. Based on their farmland subsistence, maintaining their distinction, as well as cultivating a semblance of simplicity may allow for less difficult conditions for spiritual maturity, compared to their Western Jewish counterparts. Their inclusion into the Israeli fold will strengthen Jewish unity. May Kenyan Jewry merit speedy aliyot!
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