Plans are being made by the World ORT Union to develop vocational training courses for Falashas, Jews living in tribal conditions in Ethiopia, according to an announcement here today by ORT ...

The first report about the life of 60,000 Felasha Jews under the Italian occupation arrived here today following their deliverance from fascist oppression when the British forces completed the capture ...

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 ...

Part of the joy of visiting a country for the first time is that everything is new and exciting. Part of the frustration of visiting a country for the first time is discovering along the way what you ...

“Falasha” is the term, generally pejorative, given to Ethiopia’s Jews. The centuries-old community is thought to be possibly one of the lost tribes of Israel, or descendants of King Solomon and Queen ...

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Every day, hundreds of people gather in a makeshift worship center on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.They profess their Judaism in prayers, ...

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 ...

Sonia Levitin’s musical, “The Return,” based on her novel of that name, revolves around Operation Moses, the mid-1980s airlift that brought most of Ethiopia’s Falasha Jews to Israel. But in many ways, ...