A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

In New York City, where apartments are crowded side-by-side and top-to-bottom like so many Jenga blocks, histories often ...

Yes, there are Jews in Ethiopia.In later March, I joined a group of 7 rabbis from the US and Israel on a three-day mission to Ethiopia to visit the 13,000 Jews split between Gondar (10,000) and ...

In advance of the final airlift, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky last week turned over the keys to the Jewish school of Gondar to the Ethiopian city’s mayor.

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books – the oldest found to date in the possession of Beta Israel.

About 135,000 Jews of Ethiopian descent are living in Israel. Some 22,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991.

As Passover reminds us of liberation from ancient bondage, I find myself thinking about a more recent exodus. Almost 35 years ago, Israel’s Operation Solomon rescued more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews ...

The Ethiopian community in Israel has 170,000-plus members, some of them at the forefront of Israeli society.The post Israeli gov’t OKs $58m plan to advance Ethiopian Jews appeared first on ...