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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But today, the former Jewish village is a kitschy shopping stop for tourists on their way to treks in the Simien Mountains. Ethiopia’s Jews, called “Falashas” or “strangers,” were ...

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 ...