JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has officially recognized the Beta Israel Jewish community from Ethiopia as Jewish. The ruling issued in November, but first reported Sunday by the Kan ...

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 ...

A Rare Discovery: A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the possession of Beta Israel. The Orit Guardians Master's ...

When we hear about racism or discrimination in Israel, it is usually about Jewish-Arab relations. It is far more rare that we hear the complicated story of Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jewish community, ...

At the center of the controversy raging about the possible end of Ethiopian immigration stand 8,700 relatively helpless Ethiopian Jews who want to come to Israel and an establishment led astray by its ...

Researchers have uncovered two 15th-century Orit books (the Torah of the Beta Israel of Ethiopian Jewry), the oldest found to date, belonging to the Beta Israel community of Ethiopian Jewry. These ...

Photographer Ilan Ossendryver admits he didn't know much about Ethiopian Jews before receiving an assignment to cover their migration to Israel. For South African photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver, ...