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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This led Ethiopian Jews to take up occupations like blacksmithing and pottery — an association with fire that helped further stoke anti-Jewish bigotries about their connection to evil.

“Ethiopian Jewish food is just a little bit of everything,” Beejhy Barhany, the founding owner and executive chef of Tsion Cafe, an Ethiopian and Israeli restaurant, told the Journal.

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, ...