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      <image:caption>Door leading to the sanctuary of Prague’s Spanish Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Providence’s “Orpheus Ascending” by Gilbert Alfred Franklin. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nature writer Eran Hornick at Douglas State Forest. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gilbert Alfred Franklin’s outdoor Providence sculpture “Orpheus Ascending.” Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mihály Kolodko's miniature Herzl in Budapest, Hungary. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cover of Ghada Karmi’s Married to Another Man</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cover of Ingmar Karlsson’s Bruden är vacker men har redan en man: Sionisme – en ideologi vid vägs ände? (The bride is beautiful but there is already a husband: Zionism – an ideology at the end of the road?)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An old stone wall in a Rhode Island forest. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Governor Reed B. Oliver, Honorary Consul of the State of Israel in the Federated States of Micronesia. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Redwood Lodge’s founders. Digital collage — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title page of the anonymously-published first edition of Sefer Ḥeshbon Ha-nefesh, Lemberg/Lviv, 1808</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1843 edition of Sefer Ḥeshbon Ha-nefesh handwritten in Eastern Europe</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“I always carried my little Book with me”: Benjamin Franklin and his Method for Examination. Digital collage — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Torah Umesorah’s poster of alphabetically ordered thirteen attributes in Hebrew, popularly attributed to Rabbi Israel Lipkin (Yisroel Salanter), founder of the Mussar Movement</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rabbi Eliahu Klein at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On the right, an unattributed alphabetical ordering in Hebrew of thirteen attributes in Dfus Hedva’s bat mitzvah booklet of short Jewish texts</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-24</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Dinah Anugwa, Sarah Ezenwa, and Hadassah Agbai outside Gihon Synagogue in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Betsalel Laurent Elouna and Professor William F. S. Miles during a visit to Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NIGERIA’S IGBO JEWS Between images of the Star of David and menorah, Habakkuk Nwafor’s front door in Nigeria’s capital bears the proud notice, ‘I AM A JEW’. The leader of Abuja’s Tikvat Israel Synagogue, Nwafor is an Igbo, a member of Nigeria’s third largest ethnic group, numbering over 30 million people. Seated outside his Abuja home, he holds a copy of William Miles’s Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic odyssey (2013), a book about Nwafor’s family and religious community. On its cover is a photograph of his son becoming a bar mitzvah. For at least a decade prior to its publication, Igbo Jews offered their own written religio-historical narratives, but Miles’s was the first book about Igbo Jewry composed by a Western academic. From 2,000 and 5,000 people, most of whom are Igbo, practice Judaism throughout Nigeria, though a much larger number self-identify as Jews even while practising Christianity. Igbo self-identification with and as Jews dates back to the 18th century, but concretized during and after the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970), in which at least one million Igbo died in the failed bid for Biafran independence. The civil war and its disastrous consequences initiated a still-ongoing period of intense questioning among the Igbo concerning their history, present predicaments, and future prospects. Igbo Jewish identity presents a challenge. Igbo Jews consider themselves part of world Jewry, but are not yet integrated with, nor represented in and by, Jewish institutions/associations around the world. Igbo Jewish identity also poses the truth question, as Igbo oral religio-historical claims are examined and questioned by researchers and scholars using academic lenses.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Onyeka Ibeh and her baby, Yishai, in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Irish writer Gerry Mc Donnell in Dublin. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yagil Tsaidi (left) and Binyamin Beiser (right) at Yeshivat Mevaseret Zion in Israel. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rabbi Gil Bashe (front left, with satchel) leading pilgrims through Uman in 2019. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pilgrims pray and recite psalms inside the tomb of Rebbe Nachman in Uman. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At his home in Karmiel in northern Israel, Qes Efraim Zion-Lawi examines a Jewish book from Ethiopia that his parents concealed while in Sudan. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Global Jewry - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dominika Kolodziej (left) and Polish novelist Joanna Chojnacka (right) at the Hevre restaurant in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mariusz Matera (left) and Czeslaw Uszyński (right) at Kraków’s Tempel Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michael Rubenfeld and Adam Schorin discuss their “Lucky Jew” portraits with Polish passersby at Plac Nowy in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Onyeka Ibeh and her baby, Yishai, in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reverend David Kale at his Belfast home. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wall with faded Hebrew writing near Tikvat Israel Synagogue in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I always carried my little Book with me. Digital collage — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Izuchukwu Onuchukwu standing beside the letters of the Hebrew alphabet on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Avraham Allen and his daughter at their home in Rehovot, Israel. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Emanuel ben David at prayer by an open window at Tikvat Israel Synagogue in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Izuchukwu Onuchukwu standing beside the letters of the Hebrew alphabet on the outskirts of Abuja. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Emil Kroiter and The Trance-Moldavian Express performing at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Gravestone of the 16th-century poet and musar author Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner, in Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Members of the Piyut Ensemble at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Figurines of Jews on display at an art shop in Prague. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Reverend David Kale at his Belfast home. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Mariusz Matera and Czeslaw Uszyński at Kraków's Tempel Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - At his home in Karmiel in northern Israel, Qes Efraim Zion-Lawi examines a Jewish book from Ethiopia that his parents concealed while in Sudan. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Sefi Zisling playing trumpet at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai</image:title>
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