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.

Sixty years ago, Jewish communities thrived from India to Morocco, from Ethiopia north to the Artic circle. Today, Aden is empty of Jews, and only one Jewish family remains in Asmara. Ethiopia’s ...

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 ...

Most Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel in secret immigration operations that took place in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. In Operation Moses, during the ’80s, roughly 8,000 people were smuggled ...

Members of Ethiopia's Jewish community protest the Israeli government's decision not to allow all of them to emigrate, at the synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 19, 2018.

The Jewish people preserved their sacred texts. Their sacred texts preserved the Jewish people. The survival and return of the Jews of Ethiopia provide an astonishing example of this dialectic ...

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 ...

Between the 1980s and early 1990s, roughly 45,000 Ethiopian Jews fled to Israel following a military coup turned Marxist revolution in 1974. After years of worsening poverty and human rights ...

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.

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 ...