DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of ... who left Israel 2,500 years ago and married African women, according to the BBC.

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.

Corroborating the thesis are the significant number of African nations practicing Judaism, from the Maghreb to South Africa ... the term “nation” and not “tribe”, because this term ...

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 ...