A group of black and while Jews from the Philadelphia area met with representatives of the Ethiopian Mission to the United Nations in New York last week in an attempt to organize aid for the Falashas, ...

They call themselves ”Beit Yisrael,” or ”House of Israel.” Others call them ”Falasha,” or alien, a reflection of their diminished stature in their Ethiopian homeland. Thousands of years ago, the ...

Plans are being made by the World ORT Union to develop vocational training courses for Falashas, Jews living in tribal conditions in Ethiopia, according to an announcement here today by ORT ...

About 350 members of Ethiopia’s Bete Israel community went on hunger strike in Addis Ababa on Tuesday in protest over what they described as Israel’s ”unfulfilled promise” to take them to the Holy ...

The Israeli government has consented to take in some 1,000 Falasha Jews from Ethiopia, according to a Monday statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office. "As part of the decision, ...

At the end of 1984 and in May 1991 virtually the whole of the ancient black Jewish community of Ethiopia - known as the Falashas or Beta Israel - was transported to Israel in two massive secret ...

Edie Roodman, who serves as the director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, recently gave a presentation on the African Jews of Ethiopia and their flight into Israel. The presentation ...

Addis Ababa - Some 350 members of Ethiopia's Bete Israel community went on hunger strike in Addis Ababa on Tuesday in protest over what they described as Israel's "unfulfilled promise" to take them to ...

The author discusses the origins of the Hamites and Shemites (or Semites). He states that the original Israelites were of the Black race and that the biblical Abraham (or Abram) was a Black Shemite (a ...

Nairobi — Mitku Yalew stands at the entrance of a community hall near the Haifa beach front serving as a polling station. In his left hand are a wad of pamphlets. He is clad in a white campaign ...