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Ethiopian Exodus: The last chapter

Ethiopian aliyah ends as last of Falashmura set to arrive in Israel

Farewell ceremony to take place at Israel's embassy in Addis Ababa before last flights take off. BERJAYA

By Judy Maltz | Aug 28, 2013 | 07:54 PM

Barbara Ribakove Gordon surrounded by Ethiopian children in Gondar in the 1990s.

As Ethiopian aliyah draws to a close, American Jews look back at the key role they played

This month, Israel finishes up the series of airlifts of Ethiopian Jews and their descendants that it initiated in the 1980s. But it was the action and pressure of American Jews that started the process. Some of those pioneers look back in pride. BERJAYA

By Dina Kraft | Aug 17, 2013 | 05:40 AM | 7

A musical secret, hidden away at an Ethiopian convent in Jerusalem

Few realized that Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Gebru, 89, is a talented musician and composer. Now a new book recounts her fascinating story. BERJAYA

By Ben Shalev | Aug 16, 2013 | 03:41 PM

The Falashmura path to Judaism: Rigorous according to some, ridiculed by others

Unlike other groups of new Israelis, the Falashmura have had to undergo full conversion, which is sometimes a frustrating process. BERJAYA

By Yair Ettinger | Aug 16, 2013 | 11:29 AM

As Falashmura aliyah winds down, Jewish groups turn their attention to other parts of Ethiopia

Various Jewish groups are continuing and even expanding projects serving wider populations in the country and elsewhere in Africa. BERJAYA

By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug 9, 2013 | 02:10 PM

Window into the life of an Ethiopian immigrant family

Dalia Betolin-Sherman is the first writer to succeed in giving readers a glimpse of the private world of an Ethiopian family in Israel, and of the maturation process undergone by one of its daughters. BERJAYA

By Efrat Yarday | Aug 3, 2013 | 12:36 AM

A test for the younger generation

The younger generation of Israeli-Ethiopians, some born in Israel, insists on fighting against Israel's discriminatory policy that is ending emigration from Ethiopia. BERJAYA

By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug 2, 2013 | 11:12 AM

'One day we will reach Eretz Israel': The never-ending saga for Ethiopian Jews

Every time immigration from Ethiopia seems to have reached an end in recent years, pressure from various quarters - both here and abroad - has reignited the whole process. BERJAYA

By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug 2, 2013 | 11:03 AM | 3

Ethiopian Exodus || Dreaming of 'Jerusalem of Gold,' but living in absorption centers

A look at the sobering reality shared by Ethiopian immigrants, three decades on. BERJAYA

By Ofer Aderet | Aug 1, 2013 | 02:02 PM | 4

Ethiopian Aliyah || The trials and tribulations of the Falashmura immigration, embodied by a 72-year-old Ethiopian woman

Though her four older children were allowed into Israel under the Law of Return, Yazvalam Aileo herself is not considered eligible to immigrate. Part of a series examining three decades of Ethiopian Aliyah. BERJAYA

By Anshel Pfeffer, Ofer Aderet | Jul 27, 2013 | 07:16 AM | 3

Ethiopian Aliyah || At an Israeli absorption center, new immigrants find a friendly face

At the Ibim Absorption Center, more than 600 newcomers are taking their first steps after arriving in Israel. Moshe Bata, who took the same path decades ago and now welcomes them, says there is reason for optimism. BERJAYA

By Ofer Aderet | Jul 27, 2013 | 01:13 AM | 3

For Ethiopia's Jews, a long journey is over, a new one begins

Ahead of the last Falashmura flight, Anshel Pfeffer joins new immigrants on their way to Israel. A first report in a series examining three decades of Ethiopian Aliyah. BERJAYA

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 25, 2013 | 01:24 PM | 10

Jewish World News

Report: Indonesia’s last synagogue razed

By JTA | 06:16 AM

Charity scandal elicits little soul-searching among New York Jewish groups

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen | 11:45 AM

Shas mobilizes seminary girls to disrupt Women of the Wall prayer service

By Judy Maltz | 10:27 AM | 11

Jewish World Features

Setting the record straight on one woman's breakaway from Hasidic life

By Ofer Aderet | 12:29 PM

German Jewry's 'days of grace'

By Boaz Neumann | 12:04 PM

Whispers of the Jewish issue in the 'Man Who Hated Britain' saga

By Anshel Pfeffer | 11:03 PM | 2

Jewish World Opinions

Israeli women of the Women of the Wall organization pray.

When Jewish 'tradition’ means injustice against women

By Vered Kellner | 02:09 PM | 19

Controversial circumcisions

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Eliyahu Federman | 06:02 PM | 6

Helping others begins with being honest about yourself

By Mira Sucharov | 12:49 AM

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