I look at investments in this country first, and only if I can’t find anything here that I understand and like, would I even ...

According to official estimates, over 7,000 people of Ethiopian Jewish descent remain in Ethiopia, most living in designated ...

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

Ethiopian Jews charge veteran Israelis with racism in their treatment. Some 3,000 Falash Mura are waiting to immigrate, said Micha Feldman, a former Israeli diplomat involved in the immigration of ...

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 ...

Paint on the side of a Jewish school in Gondar, Ethiopia, reads "Welcome Nacoej, Talmud Torah Class," June 2011. 7 of 10— Students at a Jewish school in Gondar, June 2011.

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 ...

Advocates say some 2,200 Jews remain in Ethiopia. They are Falash Mura, members of a community that converted to Christianity under duress more than a century ago but have reverted to Judaism.

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.

The dusty compound where Ethiopian Jews await word on whether they can emigrate to Israel could not be more different from the world I left behind when I took the same path more than 20 years ago.

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.