About us

Beth yeshourun is a warm, dynamic, joyous, friendly and welcoming Jewish community located in Cameroon, Central Africa, with its main synagogue in a little town called Sa'a which is about one hour by car far from Yaounde (the capital city), and other synagogues in Yaounde, Garoua, Douala. Isolated and self-taught for more than 10 years, we finally got our isolation broken thanks to Kulanu, an organization that supports isolated and emerging and returning jewish groups all over the world. Two Kulanu volunteers (Rabbi Gerald and Rabbanit Bonita Sussmans of the synagogue Temple Emmanuel of New-york) visited us for the first time during the summer 2010. Today, we are dedicated to more engaged Torah observance, to the love of Israel, the homeland of the Israelites and we try to develop and maintain a spiritually vibrant and mutually supportive community.