"I saw our synagogues being locked up, completely. And I didn’t see any of our members going to public services like we use to before Idi Amin... And not only that, but we began having services in hiding. Some of the congregants organized themselves in the bedrooms of individual people. Others were seen in the caves, like the old caves and so they would come by there to have their services – like Shabbat services. So, the situation was like, not so conducive to the Jewish people."
"If you study the Torah very well and you understand it, then you are the light. You can be an example to other people who don’t know... I don’t think such calamities of bad leaders can come to suppress our faith... Judaism will prosper even in hard times. And that is the history of Judaism. If the Jewish people were very weak in Egypt, Judaism could have stopped in Egypt."
“We are conscious of our Judaism because it is our culture.”
"I saw our synagogues being locked up, completely. And I didn’t see any of our members going to public services like we use to before Idi Amin... And not only that, but we began having services in hiding. Some of the congregants organized themselves in the bedrooms of individual people. Others were seen in the caves, like the old caves and so they would come by there to have their services – like Shabbat services. So, the situation was like, not so conducive to the Jewish people."
During the American Civil War, United States Colored Troops (USCTs) comprised more than ten percent of the Northern Army, though African Americans made up only one percent of the Northern population. Despite this contribution, African Americans were not allowed to participate in the 1865 Grand Review – a parade to honor Union soldiers.
On the 150th anniversary of the parade, black reenactors and USCT descendants joined their white counterparts in honor of the USCT's countributions to Union victory.
In spring and summer, members of the American Civil War Society of the United Kingdom (ACWS) gather to reenact the American Civil War, sensorially exploring the ways in which the "American" history has great relevance across the Atlantic.