A trip retracing the journey from Ethiopia to Israel aims to raise $10-million for scholarships for the Beta Israel community
One year from now, Montreal entrepreneur Jonathan Goodman plans to be in Ethiopia symbolically retracing the journey thousands of Jews braved to fulfill their dream of reaching Israel. Goodman hopes at least 50 to 100 Jews from the Diaspora and Israel—philanthropists and activists—join him in this homage to the refugees airlifted in the 1991 rescue […]
Q & A with Yuvi Tashome: Transforming Ethiopian Jewish life
Alex Rose speaks with Yuvi Tashome, the co-founder of Friends by Nature, an umbrella organization established in 2005, that works in Israeli neighbourhoods where Ethiopian Jews have settled.
Canadians help open hub for Ethiopian Jewry in Israel
Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod writes about the International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, a brand-new hub for the exploration of the beliefs and traditions of Jews of Ethiopian origin, located near Tel Aviv.
The Festival of Sigd – Ethiopian Jews fast and feast, and hold their umbrellas high
Mark Mietkiewicz writes about the holiday of Sigd.
Kitchener, Ont., family still searching for missing Jewish man, one year on
A year after their son and brother vanished, an Ethiopian Jewish family in Kitchener, Ont., continues to hope he will come home, even as they admit that a happy ending to their nightmare is becoming ever more remote.
Filmmaker looks at hidden Jews of Ethiopia
Paul Lungen interviews filmmaker Irene Orleansky about her documentary on the Ethiopian Jewish community.
Toronto’s Song Shul to celebrate Ethiopian-Jewish holiday of Sigd
On Nov. 18, The Song Shul, is hosting a special Shabbat to celebrate the Ethiopian-Jewish holiday of Sigd.
That time a Jewish hero came for dinner
One morning in 1984, Joseph told his mother he was going to buy a shirt. Instead, he walked hundreds of kilometres, ultimately arriving at a refugee camp in Sudan, to which thousands of Ethiopian Jews had fled.
