One of the easiest ways to become intertwined with a different culture is to dive into their food. For Beta Israelis, this history combined Jewish and Ethiopian heritage and dates back centuries.
As an infant, she was airlifted to safety. Today she’s bringing Ethiopian culture alive in Tel Aviv.
This article originally appeared on Alma. Born on a roadside during Operation Solomon, which airlifted over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991, Ashager Araro’s start to life was far from ...
Food can bring people together, but can it also tell the story of a culture’s past? The Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte County put that idea to the test.
In the United States, Blacks were brought to American shores by slavery. But in Israel, Blacks came by choice because they’re part of the Jewish people, notes Ethiopian-born Agenyahu. As director of ...
WATCH: JPost’s Corinne Baum in conversation with Naftali Aklum on history, identity, and the place of Ethiopian Jews in shaping Zionism. What does Zionism signify for a community whose yearning for ...
Daniel Ambaya dreamed of working for one of the top gaming companies in the world. A graduate of Sapir College with a degree in animation, his goal seemed well within reach for an artist with his ...
For many Jews, the evening of Nov. 22 is just a quiet Tuesday night, but for Ethiopian Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, Nov. 22 is the beginning of Sigd, a pilgrimage holiday holy to the Beta Israel ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The films shown at the 11th Annual Athens Jewish Film Festival aren’t necessarily ...
Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. It tells the story from the ...
Operation Solomon was one of recent history's more unusual mass immigrations. In April 1991, 14,200 African Jews were airlifted from war-torn Ethiopia to Israel in a 25-hour period, bringing nothing ...
I had no background at all.” But learning about his father’s religion was important to him, so his father sent him to AHA, a pluralistic Jewish boarding school which his adopted brother had also ...
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