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 | | According to one tradition, the Ethiopian Jews are the descendants of one of the ten tribes, as their religion is an ancient form of biblical Judaism. | | | Falasha's mostly come from Gondar state in the north west of Ethiopia, "According to one tradition, the Ethiopian Jews are the descendants of one of the ten tribes, as their religion is an ancient form of biblical Judaism. | | | The Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ) was formed in 1993 in response to the growing crisis facing Israel's Ethiopian immigrant community with regards to education, housing and employment. |
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http://www.ethiopianrestaurant.com/ethiopian_jews.html
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| | Ethiopian Jews - Passover's antiquity preserved in age-old Ethiopian tradition |
| | As their community had become isolated from the rest of the world's Jews, the Ethiopians continued to follow Judaism as it was practiced before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. | | | Their community is ancient — tradition holds that they're descended from Jews who traveled from Jerusalem to Ethiopia with Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. | | | Their version of the holy scroll was written in Ge'ez, a historic language, and they spoke the Amharic of other Ethiopian communities. |
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http://www.rasdashenchicago.com/ethiopian_jews.html
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| | Ethiopian Jews battle poverty, prejudice in Israel |
| | Nobody doubts that many of the Ethiopian Jews were happy to leave Ethiopia not only because of their religion, but also to escape one of the world's poorest countries and a land haunted by war and famine. | | | Jews of Ethiopian descent, tracing their roots to the biblical King Solomon, number about 105,000 among Israel's six million people today. | | | Ethiopians complain of problems finding employers to hire them, but say the discrimination starts at school. |
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http://www.ethiomedia.com/newpress/ethiopian_jews_031505.html
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| | Ethiopian Odyssey - Jews for Jesus |
| | Ethiopian Jews, who prefer to be called Bet Israel (House of Israel), trace their Jewish heritage to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. | | | Now Hannah, Matthias and their children live in the central region of Israel within a community of other Ethiopian Jews. | | | It is believed that in the first millennium b.c., the Semitic people of Sheba crossed the Red Sea and conquered the Hamites, who lived on the coast of what was later to become the Ethiopian Empire. |
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http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/12_1/ethiopian
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| | Yehud : Community : Ethiopean Jewry |
| | Ethiopian Jewry - Here is how the Ethiopian Jews regard the Holy Writings, prayers and holidays. | | | Ethiopian Jewry - Halacha, Customs and Tradition - The religious customs of the community distinguish them from the other tribes in Ethiopia. | | | Ethiopian Jewry - Halacha, Customs and Tradition - he religious customs of the community distinguish them from the other tribes in Ethiopia. |
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http://www.yehud.com/Community/Ethiopean_Jewry
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| | The origin of the Jews is recounted in the Hebrew Bible (called the "Old Testament" by Christians). | | | The universal prophetic teaching assured Jews that they could still worship their God on alien soil and without a temple. | | | The word Jew is derived from the kingdom of Judah, which included 2 of the 12 Israelite tribes. |
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http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txo/jews.htm
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| | Ethiopian Jews and their Names |
| | The names of the Jews of Ethiopia can be categorized in various groups according to their meaning and origins: names that reflect everyday life activities or various aspects of nature, names of Biblical origin or that echo local traditions, as well as names of grandparents and other ancestors. | | | Ge&, which is not spoken any longer, has been for many centuries the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Church; the Bible was translated into Ge& before the 7th century CE. | | | It is generally assumed that Ge& was the original language of the Beta Israel (The House of Israel) as the Jews of Ethiopia are generally known. |
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http://www.bh.org.il/NAMES/ethiopianames.asp
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| | Adherents.com: By Location |
| | Several million Ethiopians are neither Christians or Muslims, but follow various traditional religions in which they worship their own god. | | | "ETHIOPIAN CHURCH: the ancient CHRISTIAN CHURCH of Ethiopia which was founded by at least the third century and flourished for centuries as a genuine African expression of CHRISTIANITY cut off from contact with the West through ISLAM. | | | Whereas Ethiopian Christianity is practiced by a minority of the total Ethiopian population, Islam is practiced by the great majority. |
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| | Special Report |
| | Ethiopian Jews claim even earlier descent from a reputed son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, King Menelik I, and the courtiers who traveled with him from Jerusalem to Ethiopia. | | | The matter still perplexes many Jews in Israel, where some development towns have refused to accept more than their "quota" of the Ethiopians, and where residents in many apartment houses are said to conspire to keep out Ethiopians, or to find other housing for themselves when the Falashas arrive. | | | "The problem with this country is that it loves immigrants but doesn't like them very much, " explains Rahamin Elazar, director of Radio Israel's Amharic language service and one of the first Ethiopian Jews to arrive. |
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0791/9107048.htm
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly International No place like home |
| | However, because most Ethiopian Jews are peasants who practiced subsistence farming in Ethiopia, they had a difficult time acclimatising to life in Israel. | | | "In today's Ethiopia, there is no need for an organised intervention as in the 1980s and 1990s," he added (referring to an Israeli-organised airlifting of 20,000 Ethiopian Jews in 1984 and 15,000 in 1991). | | | Young Ethiopians in particular prefer to call themselves Beta Israel, or House of Israel. |
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| | Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry |
| | One fact is clear from all the sources: The Falashas have always regarded themselves as Jews, believers in the Faith of Moses, exiled from Eretz Israel, and quite distinct from the native Gentiles. | | | Rabbi David ben-Zimra (RaDBaZ) ruled in his 16th century responsa that the Jews of Ethiopia were unquestionably Danites who had settled in Abyssinia, possibly even before the Second Temple period. | | | They may be descendants of Jews who fled Israel for Egypt after the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and eventually settled in Ethiopia. |
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| | JewishGates.org |
| | Israel encouraged the Ethiopian Jews to observe their own ceremonies as well, including their traditional holiday, the Segad, which commemorates their separation from the Land of Israel. | | | A lot of the families with many young children are headed by unemployed men in their late fifties and sixties (the older age of the fathers attributed to the common practice of men marrying women twenty or even thirty years younger than they are). | | | In another recent study of six schools, 50% of the Operation Solomon children and 48% of the children whose families came 12 years ago in Operation Moses or before were judged by their teachers as below their class level in reading comprehension. |
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http://www.jewishgates.com/file.asp?File_ID=142
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| | The Old Testament Canon The word |
| | The translations may have taken decades but what is clear is that this was the Bible of the Jews in the Diaspora and it was the Bible quoted by Jesus and the Apostles in the New Testament in 300 of 350 instances. | | | Moreover, it is important to note that at least the Ethiopian Jews, followed a different canon, which is identical to the Septuagint and includes the seven deuterocanonical books (cf. | | | This story from 2 Mac 7 is cited in Hebrews 11: 35 and this is obvious from the fact that no comparable story can be found in the MT which became the Protestant Old Testament. |
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http://www.catholicfaithandreason.org/OTcanon.htm
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| | Ethiopian Jews or Beit Israel |
| | The religious life of the Beta Israel is based on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), its oral interpretations as passed down from generation to generation, and the community's own holy writings. | | | Religiously, the Beta Israel have always identified themselves as exiles from the land of Israel and as believers in the faith of Moses. | | | Before 1977 all but a handful of Beta Israel lived in Ethiopia. |
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http://archive.blackvoices.com/research/encarta/tt_176.asp
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| | The Blood of Ethiopian Jews |
| | The Halutzim, the original pioneers, even though they were secular Jews, saw the land of Israel as a Merkaz Ruchani, in the words of Ahad Ha'am, a "spiritual center." It was to become a show case of justice, fairness, equality, and harmony. | | | This word comes from the Bible and literally means "Ethiopian." Yet, it has become, in Israel, the equivalent of the American hate-word, "Nigger." | | | For example, 3,000 Jews continue to live in Ethiopia. |
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| | Ethiopian religious leaders have a long tradition of encouraging return of the Falas Mura to the Beta Israel Community. | | | In a November 1999 letter, six Ethiopian rabbis testified that in Israel the Falas Mura "live within the laws of Judaism and the halachic traditions. | | | There is no basis for differentiating between the Falas Mura and the tens of thousands of other Jews who have been reintegrated into the Jewish people over countless generations. |
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| | Falashas on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Long isolated from mainstream Judaism, they practice a form of the religion based on the Jewish Scriptures and certain apocryphal books; they also adhere to certain traditions that correspond to some of those found in the Midrash and Talmud. | | | Ethiopia subsequently agreed to permit Israel to evacuate those still remaining, and by 1999 the last remaining practicing Jews, from the Quara area of Ethiopia, were flown to Israel, bringing the total there to over 70,000. | | | (fälä´shes) [Amharic,=exiles], Jews of Ethiopia who refer to themselves as Beta Israel (House of Israel). |
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| | JWA - Organizational Records - Newsletter on Behalf of Ethiopian Jews |
| | Jews lived in Ethiopia for centuries, referring to themselves as Beita Yisrael, House of Israel. | | | Other Ethiopians used the term falasha which means exiled or one who does not own land in Amharic, their ancient language. | | | He closed Jewish villages to outsiders and imprisoned and tortured religious leaders. |
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| | Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry |
| | There is a community of 20,000 Jews in Ethiopia waiting to make aliyah. | | | They have been accepted as Jewish by the major American Jewish religious movements (Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform) as well as by the rabbis and kessoch (traditional spiritual leaders) of the Ethiopian Jewish community. | | | Most of their descendants, sometimes referred to as Felash Mura, have left their villages for Addis Ababa or Gondar (a northern provincial capital) and returned to their Judaism. |
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| | Creators of the atomic bomb: debasing nuclear power into a totalitarian order in the new world |
| | The Jews prevent the resurgence of nazism by identifying its core as fanatical spirituality, and offer corruption as the "antidote" to disarm this potent fighting spirit. | | | The Jews made a fatal error in repressing the unifying vision of mysticism. | | | The Jews exist today as a unique people precisely because they have succeeded, for thousands of years, in marrying wisely, both within their own group and, to a lesser degree, with quality outsiders. |
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http://www.heaven-words.com/4.htm
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| | Assisting Ethiopian Jews in Israel--And in Ethiopia |
| | The Ministry is currently receiving and reviewing applications for aliyah filed in Israel by Israeli-Ethiopians on behalf of their relatives in Ethiopia. | | | Most of them never became practicing Christians, maintained Jewish practices and identity, their ties with their families--and called themselves Beta Israel, the House of Israel. | | | And the famine in Ethiopia is growing worse. |
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| | On The Brink in Ethiopia |
| | Among their regular guests are a Jewish demographer from Washington D.C. and his Ethiopian daughter, a graduate student who lives in a dirt-floor hovel nearby, and a Jewish Rastafarian who believes that former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is the Messiah but who is happy to join Hodes' family for Shabbat dinner. | | | Hodes said his five Ethiopian sons enjoy spending Shabbat with him even though only one or them, the eldest, Bayelign, is Jewish. | | | Hodes said his involvement in Operation Solomon was extremely rewarding but acknowledged it was also a bit frightening. |
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http://www.aish.com/societyWork/work/On_The_Brink_in_Ethiopia.asp
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| | Judaism 101: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews |
| | When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, many of them were absorbed into existing Mizrachi communities in Northern Africa and the Middle East. | | | The word "Mizrachi" is derived from the Hebrew word for Eastern. | | | The word "Ashkenazic" is derived from the Hebrew word for Germany. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Israel to accept more Ethiopian Jews |
| | Most of them are from the Falash Mura community, who were originally Jewish, but were forced to convert to Christianity in the 19th Century. | | | The party has persuaded the cabinet that those who so desire should be allowed to settle in Israel. | | | 15,000 Jews were airlifted from war-torn Ethiopia in 1991 |
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| | March/April 1997 - Feature - "5 Myths about 7 Books" |
| | In other words, the Old Testament canon recognized by Ethiopian Jews is identical to the Catholic Old Testament, including the seven deuterocanonical books (cf. | | | However, after they passed from the scene, muddled hierarchs started adding books to the Bible either out of ignorance or because such books helped back up various wacky Catholic traditions that were added to the gospel. | | | In fact, Scripture nowhere indicates that the Jews even had a conscious idea that the canon should be closed at some point. |
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| | Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Land of Ethiopian Women. |
| | This portion of DoubleMirrors.com is dedicated to Ethiopian Women, the most beautiful women in the world. | | | Photo essay on "The Last Jews of Ethiopia" by Dan Carmi | | | General Ethiopia Support - help Ethiopia's children living in current famine emergency: |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Ethiopian Jews face 'holocaust' |
| | Ethiopian Jews have been maltreated for centuries for their Jewish practices such as keeping the High Holy Days, menstruation houses and the reading of the Torah. | | | To date Israel has taken in more than 700,000 olim (immigrants) from the former Soviet Union and 50,000 from Ethiopia. | | | Nearly 24,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel during two massive rescues in 1984 and in 1991; however, thousands have been left behind. |
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| | Jewish Book Mall - Books on Ethiopian Jews |
| | Some are finding ways to preserve the traditions their families brought with them even as they become part and parcel of Israel's social fabric. | | | In Israel, of course, the Jews from Ethiopia have faced difficulties. | | | The younger members, growing up in Israel, experienced the now-familiar gap between their parents and the secular world around them, a world only they could navigate in. |
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| | London Free Press: News Section - Ethiopian Jews prompt conflict |
| | But the possibility of tens of thousands of Ethiopians arriving has unnerved Israel, which appears to be backing away from a costly promise to take in the rest of Kassel Alazebech's people. | | | The Falash Mura and their advocates among American Jewish groups have urged Israel to speed the immigration process, warning those waiting in Ethiopia are exposed to hunger and disease. | | | Unlike the 80,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel, whose Jewish roots go back centuries, the Falash Mura claim descent from a community of Jews forced to abandon Judaism in the 19th century due to persecution. |
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| | Jewish Film Festival Reviews: 3 films reveal bright, brutal stories of Ethiopian Jews (7-17-1998) |
| | The most nuanced of the three films, Workneh's meditation on identity begins with the question, "What is a lost tribe?" and wonders whether Ethiopian Jews have found their way back home. | | | At one point, Gesho goes for a walk with his older brother Benjamin, the first of the family to arrive in Israel. | | | Few would doubt that the 1984 and 1991 airlifts of Ethiopian Jews to Israel were defining events in Israeli history. |
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| | afrol News - Ethiopian Jews "manufactured" to bolster Israeli population |
| | There are currently 24,000 Falash Mura - Ethiopian Christians who claim Jewish ancestry - living in NACOEJ compounds in Addis Ababa and Gondar in northern Ethiopia. | | | But Shalom's promise provoked a backlash from lawmakers who question the authenticity of the Falash Mura's claims, and who argue that Israel can't afford the speedy resettlement of thousands of destitute Ethiopians. | | | Critics charge that the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ), in an effort to spread Orthodox Judaism and beef up Israel's Jewish population, is "manufacturing Jews", luring Ethiopian Christians out of their villages. |
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| | RTE News - Israel to resettle Ethiopian Jews |
| | More than 100,000 of them already live in Israel. | | | Israel has announced that it intends to start resettling Ethiopia's remaining Jewish population from next week. | | | The Falashas are Ethiopian Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, but maintained their Jewish faith. |
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| | BlueStarPR: Ethiopian Jews In Israel |
| | Racial discrimination in housing, job training and opportunity, and education should not be tolerated in the Holy Land. | | | They worship the same GOD and they exhibit purest form of ancient Jewish culture that exists today! | | | My second question is: why was there any doubt of the "Jewishness" of Ethiopian Jews? |
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| | Ethiopian Jews reach Israel |
| | But tensions along the Sudan border kept Quara Jews from leaving until 1992, when 3,000 came to Israel. | | | Most of Ethiopia's Jews were brought to Israel in a series of airlifts that ended in 1991. | | | Adissu Messele, a former Israeli lawmaker born in Ethiopia said Tuesday that it was time to end the years of struggle and uncertainty endured by Quara's Jews. |
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| | Ethiopian Jews Accuse Israel Of Racism |
| | In 2000, Israel accepted 2,246 Ethiopian immigrants, 3,298 in 2001 and 2,693 in 2002, according to the ministry of absorption. | | | During Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991, about 35,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. | | | Most of their relatives left behind belong to the Falash Mura community, Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity about a century ago and who are concentrated around the capital Addis Ababa and the north-eastern Gondar province. |
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| | Ethiopian Jews and the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Response |
| | Note that he concurs with the Radbaz that the Falashas must be rescued, and that ipso facto they are regarded as Jews. | | | Now available for the first time on the Internet are two responsa from the Tzitz Eliezer (a contemporary of Rabbi Ovaadia Yosef), in which he addresses the matter of the Ethiopians' Jewishness. | | | Here is an excerpt from a ruling of the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel regarding the Ethiopian Jews: |
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| | Ethiopian Falasha Jews in Israel |
| | The operation to transport Ethiopian Falasha Jews who live in Ethiopia's al-Kawara district started on Tuesday. | | | The first shift of Falasha arrives in Israel today | | | The number of Jews then was 70,000 and they were not permitted to come together, out of fears that the Ethiopian government does not want to be looked upon as a country from where its people escape. |
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| | Operatiion Moses: Ethiopian Jews Airlift |
| | What an awesome wonder it is for our generation to witness G-d's Holy Word of prophecy unfolding right before our eyes. | | | In that time, almost 8,000 Jews were rescued from Ethiopia and brought to Israel. | | | OPERATION MAGIC CARPET between 1948 to 1950, which airlifted 50,000 Yemenite Jews home to Israel |
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| | New Travails For Ethiopian Jews |
| | They are barely subsisting now and in Addis Ababa there may be as many as 8000 waiting to be taken to Israel. | | | Many had anticipated the last immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, as imminent. | | | However, recently the situation in Ethiopia has deteriorated and there are a greater number of people still there than previously believed. |
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| | CNN - Israel's Ethiopian Jews struggle for acceptance - Jan. 29, 1996 |
| | It has won them support from their new neighbors, who endured similar problems. | | | Integrating Ethiopian Jews into all aspects of Israeli society was accepted as a major challenge. | | | RAMLE, Israel (CNN) -- Israel's Ethiopian Jews have lived for years with an undercurrent of seething resentment. |
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| | Ethiopian Jews & Racism |
| | NEARLY 60-THOUSAND ETHIOPIAN JEWS -- KNOWN AS THE FALASHAS" BUT WHO PREFER TO BE CALLED "BETA ISRAELS" -- LIVE IN 03-Apr-97 | | | THE REPORT PROMPTED CONDEMNATION FROM ISRAELI POLITICIANS AND LEADERS OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL. | | | THE EPISODE COMES AS THE FORMERLY RURAL ETHIOPIANS FEEL INCREASINGLY ALIENATED BY A MODERN SOCIETY THAT ONCE WELCOMED THEM AS LONG-LOST BROTHERS AND SISTERS. |
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| | Ethiopian Jews |
| | Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Land of Ethiopian Women. | | | From The Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ). | | | Pictures with commentary about the lives of Ethiopian Jews. |
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| | The Jews of Ethiopia, whose customs and practices are somewhat different than those of Ashkenazic or Sephardic Jews. |
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| | Taipei Times - archives |
| | Tena Bisha's brother and aunt were among some 15,000 Felashas -- Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity -- flown from Ethiopia to Israel in 1991. | | | During Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991, about 35,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. | | | Ethiopian state television reported that Shalom visited "historical sites" in the area, but made no mention of the Jewish community, which numbers some 20,000, living in Addis Ababa, the capital, and Gondar province. |
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/01/10/2003087067
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| | Ethiopian Jews Table of Contents |
| | The Present Situation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel | | | America's Role in the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry |
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