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Tag Archives: Beta Israel
How One Brave Woman Rescued An Ethiopian Slave
Steve Lipman Traveling around Ethiopia in late 1991, at the end of the African country’s civil war, was unsafe for anyone. It presented special risks for a woman traveling alone, a foreigner, a white person in the northern hilly region … read more
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Annick Press, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, Jews, Sudan
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Ethiopia’s Lost Jews
By Abdul Mohammed The coercive eviction of Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community was an act of societal vandalism, whose stated justifications of hunger and religious discrimination are false. The treatment of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel has been at best shabby … read more
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
Tagged Addis Ababa, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Falasha, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Judaism, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Operation Moses
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Beta Israel: Snapshots Of The Ethiopian Jewish Community
For South African photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver, photographing the Ethiopian Jewish community, also known as Beta Israel, started out professional but ended up personal. His decades-long body of work is now represented in the exhibit “Beta Israel: Ethiopian Jews and the … read more
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, DepoProvera, Ethiopia, ethiopian jews, Gondar, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews
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Ethiopia’s lost Jews
By Abdul Mohamed The coercive eviction of Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community was an act of societal vandalism, whose stated justifications of hunger and religious discrimination are false. The treatment of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel has been at best shabby … read more
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, DepoProvera, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Falasha, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Israel, Judaism, latest ethiopian news, Mengistu Hailemariam, news ethiopia, Operation Moses
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Ethiopians Demand Compensation perished families en route to Israel
The Organization for the Memory of Jews who perished in Sudan on their Way to Zion, a group representing Ethiopian Jews who were brought to Israel during 1984’s Operation Moses rescue, has filed a petition with Israel’s High Court of … read more
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Israel, Jews, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Shimon Peres, Sudan, World Union of Jewish Students
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Ethiopian-Israeli Women crowned Miss Israel, hopes to alter negative Israel and Ethiopian relations
Ethiopian Jews have historically faced racism in Israel, with thousands taking to the streets in January of last year to protest the treatment of Ethiopian immigrants in the country. Now, the country is confronted by a beautiful contradiction of this … read more
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Aynaw, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, Israel, latest ethiopian news, Magen David Adom, Martin Luther King Jr, Miss Israel, news ethiopia, Sentul International Convention Center
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How To Put The Ethiopian-Israeli Birth Control Controversy To Rest
By Emily L. Hauser, Daily Breast Last week Haaretz corrected its reporting of a story I covered in these pages: Ethiopian-Israeli women have been saying for years that they’ve been injected with Depo-Provera (long-acting birth control) by state-mandated health providers … read more
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, Birth control, Compulsory sterilization, DepoProvera, Haaretz, Health Ministry, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jerusalem
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Israel accused of giving Ethiopians birth control without consent
AP JERUSALEM – Accusations that Israel deliberately tried to curb birthrates among Ethiopian immigrants have reopened a debate over discrimination against the group — highlighting the state’s uneasy relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the … read more
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, Birth control, DepoProvera, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Health maintenance organization, IndepthAfrica, Israel, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Shlomo Molla, United States
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Ethiopian women and birth control: when a scoop becomes a smear
By Allison Kaplan Sommer,haaretz The more the story about Ethiopian women who were given birth control shots was repeated, the more warped and distorted it became. The story of the dramatic drop in the birthrates of the Ethiopian Israeli community … read more
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Aliyah, Beta Israel, DepoProvera, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, ethiopian women, ethiopian women in Israel, Haaretz, Health maintenance organization, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica ghana news, Israel
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Israeli government imposition of contraception on Ethiopian Jews causes 50% drop in birth-rate
Samira Shackle, middleeastmonitor Birth rates among Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community have fallen by nearly 50 per cent in the last 10 years. Now, for the first time, a government official has acknowledged that women of Ethiopian origin were being injected … read more
Without child: Temporary sterilization of Ethiopian women in Israel may explain halving of birth rate
With the election of the first female Ethiopian Israeli Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, to the Knesset in last week’s polls, the community of more than 150,000 finally had their champion in parliament. It is something the minority had been hoping for, … read more
New Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel Experience Their First Ever Snowfall
By: Benjamin Rutland Hundreds of Ethiopian Olim (Immigrants), who are living in The Jewish Agency for Israel absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow for the first time ever on January 9th. The children pictured headed outside to play in the … read more
The great Ethiopian divide
By Don Futterman, haaretz Ethiopians are careful to hide the friction between Beta Yisrael and Falashmura, for fear it could damage the community’s image. The Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is divided between the Beta Yisrael and the Falashmura (some … read more
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Tagged Beta Israel, Christianity, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Falashmura, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Judaism, Sigd
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New Ethiopian immigrants to Israel Welcome by Hamas Explosive
By Judy Maltz, haaretz New immigrants from Ethiopia get a severe reality check mere days after their arrival in Israel as bombs fall around their absorption center. Despite the shock, they’re adapting quickly and looking to pitch in. Roostu Bayene … read more
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Tagged Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Hebrew language, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, Red Color, Sderot, Twitter
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240 new aliyah from Ethiopia received a warm welcome
A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews that landed in Israel was described by the Israeli government as the launch of the final stage of mass immigration from Ethiopia Members of the Israel and Overseas Committee of UJA Federation … read more
Ethiopian demonstrators claim double standard on right to protest outside Netanyahu’s home
The authorities say Ethiopian Israelis’ protest camp near the Prime Minister’s Residence is disturbing the neighbors. Funny, they never said that about other demonstrations. For nearly two years now the sidewalk outside attorney David Hagoel’s home in Jerusalem has been … read more
Used by Israel’s underworld, one Ethiopian immigrant becomes crime boss
By Yaniv Kubovich Israeli crime bosses have found a new source of cheap labor: desperate Ethiopian immigrants. One of them decided to aim higher – and be a boss himself, according to testimony gathered by Rehovot police. On August 15, … read more
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
Tagged Africa news, African news, Beta Israel, crime, Crime boss, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kiryat Moshe, Middle East, Rehovot
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Ethiopian Israelis plan to take protest to New York
Organizer is now awaiting final permits from the New York police, and hopes the demonstration will take place early next month. As Ethiopian activists expressed satisfaction over Wednesday’s demonstration in Tel Aviv, a new battle line has emerged for Ethiopian … read more
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News
Tagged Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, Judaism, tel aviv, Wednesday, Youtube
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Ethiopian Jews are not alone – they are the latest in a long line of victims of Israeli intolerance
“Tottenhams are on their way to Auschwitz,(Seig Heil,) Hitler’s going to gas them again.” On International Holocaust Day, I find it shocking that these offensive chants, accompanied by hissing in imitation of gas chambers, have become part of Britain’s football … read more
Ethiopian man stabs wife to death and then hangs himself
A man stabbed his wife to death late Monday night and hanged himself while two of the couple’s three children were locked in a room in their Rishon Letzion apartment. The couple, Lawaka Amara, 37, and his wife, Yeshi Amara, … read more
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News
Tagged Aliyah, Amara, Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kiryat Arba, Shlomo Molla, west bank
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Restive Ethiopians Take to Street of Isreal
New Generation Emboldened To Protest Racism in Israel Nathan Jeffay Covering the shabby concrete storefronts in this small Israeli town are graffiti messages expressing the anger some Ethiopians feel over what they see as racism. An unemployed Ethiopian immigrant waiting … read more
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Featured 1, News
Tagged Beta Israel, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, Kiryat Malachi, Kiryat Malakhi, Shimon Peres, Theodor Herzl
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Israel Takes in Ethiopians, Ends Their Humanitarian Plight
Groups of hundreds of Falash Mura, Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry, began arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport today. Israel’s cabinet approved the immigration of 8,000 Falash Mura into Israel in 2010. Under Israel’s Right of Return law, Jews from anywhere … read more
Posted in AIDS / Humanitarian, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
Tagged 19th century, Africa maps, Africa news, African news, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Benjamin Netanyahu, Beta Israel, breaking news, Embassies and Consulates, Ethiopia, Falash Mura, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, News local news, newspapers, World news
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Government to approve airlift of 8,000 Ethiopian Falashmura
The cabinet is expected to approve plans today to bring another 7,846 members of the Ethiopian Falashmura community to Israel over the next four years. Activists who support the rights of the Falashmura to immigrate to Israel have promised to … read more
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Global Issues, Middle East, News
Tagged Aliyah, Beta Israel, Eli Yishai, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Law of Return
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