Ethiopian Jewish communities are in dire need as the enduring problems of food scarcity and lack of medical care are compounded by the Israel-Hamas conflict's disruption of traditional lines of aid.

For centuries, until the 20th Century, Ethiopian Jews were completely isolated from Jewish communities in other parts of the world. Yet, they adhered to biblical Judaism for many centuries. Image ...

Ethiopian Jews began moving to Israel in significant numbers after a 1973 ruling by the then chief Sephardic rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, who said they were truly Jewish and so subject to Israel's Law of ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

The Jewish Agency has announced the end of the Falasha aliyah several times before. But this time, the Jewish Agency’s Ethiopia emissary, Asher Seyum, says it will really happen.

This led Ethiopian Jews to take up occupations like blacksmithing and pottery — an association with fire that helped further stoke anti-Jewish bigotries about their connection to evil.

These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

Israel extracted some 200 citizens and local Jews from conflict zones in Ethiopia Thursday, the Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office announced, amid fighting in the African country’s ...

Ethiopian Jews, in her experience, face mistreatment, discrimination, and injustice. Today, she is one of the community's leading activists, a board member of the New Israel Fund , a group advocating ...

Most of the Ethiopian Jews emigrated to Israel during the 1970s and 1980s and in one weekend in May 1992, a covert Israeli operation, dubbed Operation Solomon, airlifted more than 14,325 Ethiopian ...

The Jews of Ethiopia, like the Jews of the rest of the Diaspora, never lost hope of returning to their holiest city. The generative and sustaining power of the Jewish bible arises from its ...

Ethiopian Jews pray during the 'Sigd' holiday in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people ...