JERUSALEM A Jewish teen from Ethiopia who had been ordered to deposit thousands of dollars in order to participate in the final stages of the In
A Jewish teen from Ethiopia had to deposit thousands in order to compete in the International Bible Quiz because Israel wanted to ensure he returned.
The team performed five surgeries at a hospital that serves some 8 million patients but does not have a spine surgeon.
Some 9,000 Ethiopian Jews have been waiting over a decade to make Aliyah to Israel.
Last week, Israelis for the first time saw a black lead character on a homegrown, primetime television show. “Nevsu,” a half-hour comedy, focuses on an Ethiopian man who is married to an Ashkenazi Jewish woman. Misunderstanding ensues. “There is definitely a lot of cultural confusion in the show,” Yosi Vasa, the star and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ethiopian Israelis will be permitted to donate blood without restrictions. The new Health Ministry rules will take effect on July 1, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing the Magen David Adom ambulance service. Blood donations from Ethiopian-born Israelis have been banned since 1977. The date of the new procedures was announced at the meeting…
(JTA) — The Jewish community of Gondar in Ethiopia said it lost one of its members in riots that have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks. The Jew killed in Gondar was identified as Weta Chekla, the Israel-based news site Little Ethiopia reported Thursday. The report said he was waiting to immigrate to Israel…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Activists and politicians called for the firing of Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich after he called it “natural” for police to be more suspicious of Ethiopian Israelis than of other Israelis. “Studies the world over, without exception, have shown that immigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others, and this should…
Why isn’t Israel welcoming the 9,000 Jews left behind in Ethiopia? To attribute this to racism is uncomfortable but unavoidable, Jane Eisner writes.
Wide-eyed superwomen mesh with history in a gorgeous new exhibition by an emerging Israeli-Ethiopian artist, currently on view in Harlem.