The expedited aliyah of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura has encouraged more would-be immigrants to crowd into miserable shantytowns around the Israeli Embassy and Consulate there, according to a new report by ...

The Falash Mura are Ethiopians who have Jewish familial roots but lived as Christians for generations in order to escape persecution. But in recent decades, they asserted their Jewish ancestry and ...

Israel’s decision to allow the remaining Ethiopians who claim Jewish ancestry to immigrate to Israel ends an emotional era of debate and politicking in the Jewish community. It also begins a new one.

Israeli Attorney-General Avihai Mandelblit on Sunday warned the Netanyahu government that its decision to permit 1,000 Christian Falash Mura to immigrate from Ethiopia to Israel would make it ...

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JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities have completed what they say is the final large airlift of Ethiopian immigrants, ending decades of efforts to bring the remnants of an ancient community to the Jewish ...

Perhaps no single party outside the Israeli government is as vital to Ethiopian aliyah as the American Jews committed to help paying for it. So this month, when the United Jewish Communities (UJC) ...

Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia attend a demonstration of a ceremonial Passover holiday dinner known as a "seder" at an immigrant's centre in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem April 14, 2011.

Ashagray Zeleke is on the front lines of a war over Israel's future. The local representative of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ), Zeleke administers a compound in Addis Ababa ...

GONDAR, Ethiopia — The atmosphere was festive at this city’s only synagogue as the congregations prepared to send off 180 community members who are moving to Israel. “Everyone is happy because today’s ...

Members of the Falash Mura Jewish Ethiopian community attending a prayer service at the HaTikvah Synagogue in Gondar, northern Ethiopia. Credit: REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri There is a plant called wandering ...

Some 150 Ethiopians claiming Jewish links will arrive in Israel this week, the first groups to immigrate in more than a year. Eighty-one Ethiopians, known as Falash Mura, are scheduled to arrive early ...