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 ...

Ethiopian Jewish Demonstrator: I think what we are looking here today is thousands of Ethiopians saying here to the Israeli society: no to discrimination, no for racism.

Ethiopian Jews began moving to Israel in significant numbers after a 1973 ruling by the then chief Sephardic rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, who said they were truly Jewish and so subject to Israel's Law of ...

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) ...

Taking almost the entire Jewish community out of Ethiopia, the new mission effectively completed Operation Moses, an earlier joint Israeli and CIA operation that airlifted 8,000 Ethiopian Jews ...

The Ethiopian Aliyah, a group promoting family unification, estimates that about 7,000 Ethiopian Jews remain behind in Ethiopia, some of whom have been waiting for years to join their relatives.

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 ...

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.

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, ...