1 of 10 — Facilitated by the Israeli government, a young couple and their children are going on aliyah from Ethiopia — a purposeful ascent, or "going up" to Israel. The facial cross tattoos, often ...

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Jewish Federation Real Estate Fund awarded a grant to Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry to build and operate a medical clinic in Gondar, Ethiopia.

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

For many Jews, the evening of Nov. 22 is just a quiet Tuesday night, but for Ethiopian Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, Nov. 22 is the beginning of Sigd, a pilgrimage holiday holy to the Beta Israel ...

Except there was no Israel to take his father and mother in, writes the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings. (JTA) — Recently, ...

(JTA) — For years, the 50th day after Yom Kippur has been marked by the pilgrimage of hundreds of Ethiopian Jews dressed in white and carrying colorful umbrellas to Jerusalem to celebrate Sigd. This ...

(JTA) — Synagogues and Hebrew schools in the United States looking to help their communities celebrate Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday, have gotten a helping hand this year, thanks to Sigal ...

Last Wednesday, two jetliners flew 450 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. They were the last to arrive under an official program designed to bring to Israel all remaining Ethiopian Jews who are eligible for ...

A Jewish humanitarian organization has completed an airlift of medical materials to enclaves of Ethiopian Jews as the ongoing Israeli conflict with Hamas has complicated established aid in the region.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethiopian Jews take part in Sigd celebrations, November 2025 (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Sigd is a time to honor the memory ...

Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. It tells the story from the ...