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 ...

A mere 14 Ethiopian Jews are aboard the last approved aliyah flight from Ethiopia, which is scheduled to land in Israel on Tuesday night. Some 7,500 Ethiopian Jews are still living in both Gondar ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Activists campaigning to bring Ethiopia’s Jews to Israel inched closer to their goal during a 21-hour marathon budget approval last Friday, but they are waiting to see what will happen before ...

He is tall, lanky, black and Jewish. Uri Abraham, an Ethiopian Jew celebrating his second year in Israel, smiles as he recounts his first sight of the Holy Land. “I stepped out of the plane ...

The Ethiopian Aliyah, a group promoting family unification, estimates that about 7,000 Ethiopian Jews remain behind in Ethiopia, some of whom have been waiting for years to join their relatives.

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 ...