Janet Abrams

Ethiopia’s Forgotten Jews Wait For Israel, Their Suitcases Gathering Dust

The bus parks on a cobbled hill. We exit into the milling crowd and pass through a gateway in a corrugated metal wall, painted in vertical blue and white stripes, under the watchful eye of a rifle-toting guard. Past the plastic-laminated ‘house rules’ in English and Amharic (no electronic devices, long skirts required for ladies),…