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Ethiopian native, Yeshi Mengistu, the academic attaché at the Consulate General of Israel to New England, will speak about the Ethiopian Jewish holiday Sigd and the Ethiopian immigration to Israel Monday, Nov. 21 at noon at the University of Rhode Island ...

Indeed, more than three and a quarter of a million people have “made aliyah” since 1948. Aliyah comes in waves, massive in some years, followed by downturns, and back again.

“What we heard from most people,” Finkelstein said, “is there's been this generational desire for Jerusalem.”

JFNNJ leaders join efforts bringing Ethiopian immigrants to Israel

Operation Tzur Israel aims to bring a total of 5,000 Jews from Ethiopia.

Surviving war, famine and the pandemic, Ethiopians make aliyah and come to Israel.

Former IDF General Doron Almog will succeed Israeli President Isaac Herzog as the agency’s executive chairman.

Some 180 Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel on Wednesday, with another 160 scheduled to arrive on Thursday.  Their arrival signals the end of a saga that has separated families and left many Ethiopian Jews living in temporary transit camps for decades.  

The Jewish News of Northern California

Minorities are so fragile due to their small cultures that can be easily forgotten and lost in time. Although a person can define himself or herself as part of many cultures, there are subgroups of…