For many Jews, the evening of Nov. 22 is just a quiet Tuesday night, but for Ethiopian Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, Nov. 22 is the beginning of Sigd, a pilgrimage holiday holy to the Beta Israel ...
(JTA) — Synagogues and Hebrew schools in the United States looking to help their communities celebrate Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday, have gotten a helping hand this year, thanks to Sigal ...
In the United States, Blacks were brought to American shores by slavery. But in Israel, Blacks came by choice because they’re part of the Jewish people, notes Ethiopian-born Agenyahu. As director of ...
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 ...
The conversation about Israel’s devastating war in Palestine should also urge a discussion about the state of the country’s Black residents. Ad Policy Israelis of Ethiopian origin protest in Tel Aviv ...
Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. It tells the story from the ...
"Funny, you don't look Jewish" is not funny. We need to change the perceptions of what it means to look, and do, Jewish. I know that you have not been keeping count, so I have been doing it for you.
What does Zionism signify for a community whose yearning for Jerusalem has existed for centuries, long before the rise of the modern Zionist movement? In this episode of Zionist Talks, host Corinne ...