The man in the yarmulke is one of around 100,000 Lemba people, Black Jews who live in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Lemba people have long held that they are Jews by descent. In the 1990s and early ...

DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of Jewish or Semitic origin, the BBC reported. (JTA) — DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

A southern African tribe with tantalizing claims to an ancient Jewish heritage, the Lemba dispatched Parfitt on a journey of discovery that would take him halfway across Africa and into a remote ...