It’s a humbling experience to live in Israel, among Jews whose genes date back to Bayit Rishon. It’s equally humbling to study the historical overview that is the Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to ...
A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...
Last Wednesday, two jetliners flew 450 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. They were the last to arrive under an official program designed to bring to Israel all remaining Ethiopian Jews who are eligible for ...
As a child living in Ethiopia, Shula Mola dreamed of going to Israel. A member of the African country's nearly two-millennia-old Jewish community, she celebrated one of its unique holidays, Sigd, ...
At the end of 1984 and in May 1991 virtually the whole of the ancient black Jewish community of Ethiopia - known as the Falashas or Beta Israel - was transported to Israel in two massive secret ...
Edie Roodman, who serves as the director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, recently gave a presentation on the African Jews of Ethiopia and their flight into Israel. The presentation ...
Except there was no Israel to take his father and mother in, writes the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings. (JTA) — Recently, ...
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 ...
As I help Israel celebrate its 78th birthday, I do so in the shadow of war in Gaza, confrontation with Iran, rising antisemitism not only in the United States but around the world, and deep internal ...