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The Jewish community in Kenya dates back to the 1900s when, in 1903, the British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain offered the Zionists a part of the territory in Kenya and Uganda known as the Uganda Program for their own autonomous country at the Sixth Zionist Congress. The suggestion created much controversy among the international Jewish community, and was rejected at the Seventh Zionist Congress, in 1905. Although this proposal was reverted, several Jewish families immigrated to Kenya. In 1913, there were 20 Jewish families living in Kenya. Most resided in Nairobi . When the Holocaust ended, some Jews started to immigrate to Kenya. The Jewish community also built a synagogue there.1As of 2008 there are about 400 Jews living in Kenya.2The community mainly resides in Nairobi. Shabbat services are held. Britain stepped into the picture, offering Herzl land in the largely undeveloped area of Uganda (today, it would be considered an area of Kenya). ... : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= ( help ) ; line feed character in |quote= at position 81 ( help )3
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The Jewish community in Kenya dates back to the 1900s when, in 1903, the British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain offered the Zionists a part of the territory in Kenya and Uganda known as the Uganda Program for their own autonomous country at the Sixth Zionist Congress. The suggestion created much controversy among the international Jewish community, and was rejected at the Seventh Zionist Congress, in 1905. Although this proposal was reverted, several Jewish families immigrated to Kenya. In 1913, there were 20 Jewish families living in Kenya. Most resided in Nairobi . When the Holocaust ended, some Jews started to immigrate to Kenya. The Jewish community also built a synagogue there. As of 2008 there were about 400 Kenyan Jews. The community mainly resides in Nairobi. Shabbat services are held. A Kikuyu-speaking Kasuku community of 60 members, calling itself thee Kasuku Gathundia Jewish community, has developed among subsistance farmers in the Kenyan highlands, near Nyahururu .According to their patriarch, Yosef Ben Avraham Njogu, it grew from a split with Kenya’s sizeable Messianic Jewish congregation, when a purported visit from Nairobi Jews led to their understanding that what they practiced was Messianic and not Judaism.On learning of the distinction, he and Avraham Ndungu Mbugua broke away, and began to studied Judaism in depth.Circumcision, traditionally a puberty rite disallowed by law at birth, means that the community's children must travel to Uganda to have the rite performed by the Abayudaya .Nairobi's Hebrew Congregation has nothing to do with them.Britain stepped into the picture, offering Herzl land in the largely undeveloped area of Uganda (today, it would be considered an area of Kenya). ... : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= ( help ) ; line feed character in |quote= at position 81 ( help ) Melanie Lidman, 'In Kenya’s highlands, a Jewish community struggles for recognition,' The Times of Israel 10 March 2015.
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There is still a Jewish community living in Kenya today.
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There is still a Jewish community living in Kenya today.
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The History of the Jews in Kenya refers to the history of Jewish settlement in Kenya , which began in 1899.A Jewish community continues to live in Kenya today.
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