At the end of 1984 and in May 1991 virtually the whole of the ancient black Jewish community of Ethiopia - known as the Falashas or Beta Israel - was transported to Israel in two massive secret ...
As a child living in Ethiopia, Shula Mola dreamed of going to Israel. A member of the African country's nearly two-millennia-old Jewish community, she celebrated one of its unique holidays, Sigd, ...
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, ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government announced Monday that it agreed to absorb 1,000 Ethiopian Jews — accepting just a fraction of the African country’s 8,000 remaining Jews who want to move to ...
JERUSALEM (AP) – Jewish American activists are in Ethiopia to escort remnants of one of the oldest communities in the Jewish Diaspora to Israel, organizers said Wednesday. Tens of thousands of ...
A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews is launching the final stages of the aliyah from Ethiopia. Monday’s scheduled flight marks the beginning of Operation Dove’s Wings, an Israeli government ...
The traditions of Ethiopian Jews are the inspiration for an upcoming Shabbat dinner in Midtown Atlanta sponsored by several local Jewish organizations. Known to have faced persecution and forced ...
A Jewish humanitarian organization has completed an airlift of medical materials to enclaves of Ethiopian Jews as the ongoing Israeli conflict with Hamas has complicated established aid in the region.