By 1975 the community had shrunk to 150 and by 1993 when Eritrea gained independence Cohen was one of the only Jews left. Cohen’s wife and children left in the late 1990s.
The Eritrean-American comedian Tiffany Haddish has celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony - normally marked when a girl turns 12 - signifies a stepping into religious ...
An Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a second ... Halevy praised the “coexistence between Jewish and Bedouin citizens living side by side” in the Negev and said that it “must be ...