Spread out over many miles in Uganda, the 600 member Abayudaya community have held tightly to ancient beliefs through civil wars and periods of religious intolerance. Even during Idi Amin's reign of terror, when synagogues were closed and prayers had to be held in secret, the Abayudaya did not abandon their beliefs. Guided by their faith in the Jewish Laws of the Torah, they pray together in mud huts designated as synagogues and chant Hebrew prayers to an Afro beat. Their story is one of survival.
