For over a decade, Tsion Cafe, which owner Beejhy Barhany believes is the only Ethiopian Jewish restaurant in America, ...

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 ...

American Jewish groups have been hesitant to endorse a resolution introduced last week in the U.S. Senate that calls on President Bush to condition any improvement in U.S.-Ethiopian relations on ...

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.

With chants of “Bring our families home now!” and signs declaring “One people, one heart Ethiopian Jews are Israel,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The owner of New York City’s only Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant claimed she was forced to close because of a wave of ...

(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 ...

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 ...

New York City’s only Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant has closed its doors for regular dining, citing the backlash it faced during the war in Gaza. Beejhy Barhany, who opened Tsion Cafe in Harlem in 2014, ...