Share 10/07/2012 12:17 Ethiopian Jews may have lived by a different calendar, but the community had deep roots. Last year the Israeli consulate in New York hosted an event at which I gave a presentation on Ethiopian-Jewish community life. After it finished I was approached by a man who asked how the Ethiopian Jews...
Share By Emily Wax Published: July 29 It’s almost midnight, but Zelalem Injera, an Ethiopian bread factory housed in a cavelike Northeast Washington warehouse, is wide awake. As its 30-foot-long injera machine hums, Ethio pian American businessman Kassahun Maru, 61, proudly explains that it cranks out 1,000 of the fermented Frisbee-shaped discs every hour for the region’s...
ShareHollywood Stars Will Smith & his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith in Ethiopia mother land Share
ShareThe Ethiopian journey to Israel as revealed in the pages of the ‘Post’ in the 1930s and ’40s. A year and a half after Israel’s declaration of independence, Dr. Jacob Weinstein, a Jewish Agency official and immigration expert, returned home to Israel from a brief trip to Ethiopia. Previously he had been tasked with...
Share Published: April 20, 2012 LALIBELA, Ethiopia ON the roads through Ethiopia’s highlands traffic raises a brick-red haze that coats your clothes, powders your skin and starts a creaking in your lungs. Despite the dust people wear white. Farmers wrap themselves in bleached cotton. Village funerals look like fields of snow. At churches and...
ShareBy RUTH EGLASH 04/03/2012 06:20 Issue of Ethiopian aliya and the state’s ability to successfully absorb the new immigrants is still a point of contention. By Flash 90 Gearing up to spend their first-ever Passover in Israel, more than 60 recently-arrived Ethiopian olim gathered on Monday at the Jewish Agencyrun Absorption Center in Mevaseret...
ShareAn ancient goldmine discovered on a hill on the Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia is said to be the treasure trove of Queen of Sheba, the biblical legend who traveled from Ethiopia to Israel to meet the king and showered upon him tons of gold about 3,000 years ago. Called by different names such...
ShareHagos spent most of his childhood in a refugee camp in Sudan, coming to the United States when he was 10. He joined the army after 9/11 because, he says, he felt this country had given him so much. Hagos was seriously injured by a rocket–propelled grenade and was later awarded a Purple Heart....
ShareA ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Operation Solomon, in which over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in 36 hours, will take place tonight with the participation of Ethiopian community leaders, President Shimon Peres, Absorption Minister Sofa Landver and other government officials. The ceremony will highlight the achievements of the Ethiopian community...
ShareBy: Emaily Wax of Washington Post The petite, curlyhaired princess of Ethiopia is a mortgage loan officer who commutes 40 minutes a day, does her own dishes and shops for sales on twin sets at Tysons Corner Center. “I don’t have bodyguards clearing traffic or tailors stitching my clothes. This is America,” says Saba...
African News
