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 ...

The first report about the life of 60,000 Felasha Jews under the Italian occupation arrived here today following their deliverance from fascist oppression when the British forces completed the capture ...

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 ...

“Falasha” is the term, generally pejorative, given to Ethiopia’s Jews. The centuries-old community is thought to be possibly one of the lost tribes of Israel, or descendants of King Solomon and Queen ...

Filmed at great personal risk, this documentary exposes the plight of "the last tribe of Israel", the Falashas of Ethiopia. They are persecuted by the Ethiopians for being Jewish and subject also to ...

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 ...

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 ...