Ethiopian Jewish communities are in dire need as the enduring problems of food scarcity and lack of medical care are compounded by the Israel-Hamas conflict's disruption of traditional lines of aid.

Most Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel in secret immigration operations that took place in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. In Operation Moses, during the ’80s, roughly 8,000 people were smuggled ...

Israeli women from the Ethiopian Jewish community pray during the Sigd holiday during a celebration in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Ethiopian Jews, in her experience, face mistreatment, discrimination, and injustice. Today, she is one of the community's leading activists, a board member of the New Israel Fund , a group advocating ...

Ishta made aliyah in the 1990s from Ethiopia, along with her brothers, after spending a few months in a refugee camp in Sudan. One of the oldest and most unique Jewish communities, Beta Israel ...

Ethiopian Jews pray during the 'Sigd' holiday in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people ...

Sixty-three Ethiopian Jews fleeing war in their country are stuck in Addis Ababa waiting for Ethiopian authorities to complete security checks, which have lasted weeks, despite being entitled to ...

In addition, the Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jews (SSEJ) Center is located here. The SSEJ center is a community center, food bank, and synagogue.

When the Israeli government voted to welcome 3,000 Jews from war-torn Ethiopia in 2022, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia knew it needed to act. Joining the Jewish Federations of North ...

An Ethiopian Jewish Kes, or high priest, celebrating Sigd in Israel | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. F or many Jews, the evening of Nov. 22 is just a quiet Tuesday night, but for Ethiopian Jews in ...

As a child living in Ethiopia, Shula Mola dreamed of going to Israel. A member of the African country's nearly two-millennia-old Jewish community, she celebrated one of its unique holidays, Sigd, ...