i24 News | The American-style summer camp for Nigerian Jewish children
In 2023, American expat Debbie Isser decided to open Camp Sarah in Abuja. Four summers later, the camp is operating this summer with around 80 campers and 20 staffers…
The Forward | Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that.
“On summer mornings in Abuja, Nigeria, a small fleet of cars fan out across the sprawling capital city carrying unusual passengers: children headed to Jewish day camp.
In a one-story synagogue on a dirt road in Kubwa, a densely populated suburb, children who spend most of the year as the only Jew in their school spill out of cars alongside dozens of their peers. They might spend the day acting out scenes from the Torah, crocheting kippot or competing in color war…”
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