DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Economic hardship and forced conscription are becoming increasing worries for the communities of Jews and descendants in Ethiopia as the civil war intensifies. ETHIOPIANS ATTEND ...

Ethiopian Jews who escaped remember being woken up by their parents in the middle of the night and being told to pack very ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews gathered in the capital, Addis Ababa, to protest the Israeli government's decision not to allow all of them to emigrate to Israel, leaving ...

One year after the top-secret ”Operation Moses” airlifted thousands of Ethiopia`s black Jews to Israel, the ”Falashas,” as they are known, are still strangers in the Promised Land.

Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel, Roni Fantanesh Malkai provides eye-opening, need-to-know information ...

The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises the best and the worst of Israeli society. True to its Zionist dream of being a haven for Jews, the Jewish state ...

Beta Israel, or House of Israel, is the term for Ethiopia’s indigenous Jewish community. The Jews are also called Falasha, or “outsiders” in Ge’ez, the liturgical language of Ethiopian ...

As Israel recalls the 1985 covert mission that rescued 8,000 Ethiopians from war and famine, the community extols its ...

I am trying to save Jewish black lives. Not just me of course, it’s me and a few other Ethiopian Jews. But we are trying to save lives, directly. Not from a threat of police, but from imminent ...

Their sacred texts preserved the Jewish people. The survival and return of the Jews of Ethiopia provide an astonishing example of this dialectic, Let us begin with today’s Torah reading ...

Most Jews do not. But, the 29 th of Cheshvan is a Jewish holiday – the festival of Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish festival. “Sigd” means “prostration” in Ge’ez, an ancient Ethiopian ...

Beta Israel Jews in Ethiopia, and Cochin Jews in India. Sephardic Jews often have different customs than Ashkenazi Jews, including melodies for prayers, foods and forms of observance. For instance ...