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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 their families divided between ...

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, 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 ...

Ethiopian Jews brought a few precious Orit books with them when they immigrated to Israel beginning in the 1980s, but each document offers a distinct and partial representation of its congregation ...

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 ...