Shayne
03-16-2007, 01:41 AM
Dont ask me how i stumbled across this webpage. I was doing some important *cough* research for work.
Annnnyway, it made me smile and wonder.. do we have Jews in Zimbabwe... other than Sam Levy anyhow?
Rusape is a small city in the northeast of Zimbabwe, about two hours from the capital of Harare. While some members of the Jewish community live in the city, working as everything from school teachers, such as Cantor Martin, to railroad clerks, such as Solomon Guwazah, many live in family compounds that are tucked the rocky hills that pepper the landscape. The community’s tabernacle is a long, rectangular building about seven kilometers from Rusape, in a small trading center that borders a sprawling lake.
Summers in Zimbabwe are long and hot, but during the winter a cool breeze blows. Politics in Zimbabwe also are usually on the warm side; recent fighting between dueling national political parties has threatened to disrupt the peaceful
Now the confusing part.....
http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/zim5.jpg
Members of the Rusape, Zimbabwe Jewish community, sitting outside the Rusape
http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/zim8.jpg
"Car park" outside of "the Jewish tabernacle," seven kilometers outside of Rusape, Zimbabwe.
Ha ha! Love the car park.
See the link here. (http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/rusape3.htm)
Annnnyway, it made me smile and wonder.. do we have Jews in Zimbabwe... other than Sam Levy anyhow?
Rusape is a small city in the northeast of Zimbabwe, about two hours from the capital of Harare. While some members of the Jewish community live in the city, working as everything from school teachers, such as Cantor Martin, to railroad clerks, such as Solomon Guwazah, many live in family compounds that are tucked the rocky hills that pepper the landscape. The community’s tabernacle is a long, rectangular building about seven kilometers from Rusape, in a small trading center that borders a sprawling lake.
Summers in Zimbabwe are long and hot, but during the winter a cool breeze blows. Politics in Zimbabwe also are usually on the warm side; recent fighting between dueling national political parties has threatened to disrupt the peaceful
Now the confusing part.....
http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/zim5.jpg
Members of the Rusape, Zimbabwe Jewish community, sitting outside the Rusape
http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/zim8.jpg
"Car park" outside of "the Jewish tabernacle," seven kilometers outside of Rusape, Zimbabwe.
Ha ha! Love the car park.
See the link here. (http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/rusape3.htm)