Abayudaya congregants carry Torah scrolls, their prayer shawls bright against the embroidered velvet mantles of the sifrei Torah in procession in Nabagoye, Uganda. In the hills of eastern Uganda, Judaism is carried quite literally—on shoulders, in song, in stitched velvet and polished wooden rollers. The people in this photograph are the Abayudaya, the “people of Judah,”…
