Imagine a Jewish community sequestered from the rest of the Diaspora for many centuries. Such a group would lack the foundational texts of the Oral Law, including the Mishnah, the Talmud, and the codifications of Maimonides, along with the entire
Had I stayed in Gondar, Ethiopia for two and a half more weeks, I could have participated in the world’s largest Seder, consisting of approximately 5,000 Ethiopian Jews. I could have joined them in consuming the first of over 100,000
Demonstrators gathered outside the Knesset on Sunday demanding that the government facilitate the immigration of approximately 10,000 relatives of Israelis of Ethiopian descent, given ongoing violence and strife in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Last month, the State of Israel took the courageous step of announcing, with great fanfare, that they would be bringing in all the remaining B’nai Menashe from India. Jerusalem also ruled that it would not bring in Jews from Ethiopia
Joseph Feit is Chairman of Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry. He began his activities on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry and the Beta Israel left behind in Operation Solomon over thirty years ago at the written request of then Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu
On October 15, guarded by dozens of Ethiopian soldiers and joined by Gondar’s deputy mayor, we laid the cornerstone for a new Jewish compound in Gondar: a school, nutrition center, beit midrash, and gathering place. It was not a celebration.
Recently, Israeli media reported that the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration is being restructured as a growth engine for the State of Israel. The ministry’s director general, Avichai Kahana, was quoted as justifying the reorientation of policy as “part of the historical process of
Earlier this week, Israel’s Immigration and Absorption Ministry proudly announced a three-year plan to recruit wealthy and highly skilled Jews to make aliyah. Grants of up to NIS 1 million (some $295,000), sweeping tax breaks, and fast-tracked licensing will target doctors, AI