Every couple of years, we hear about the ‘last’ remaining descendants of Ethiopian Jewry fulfilling their dream of making Aliyah; Conversely, every year, the Ethiopian Church submits twice as many work visa applications for clergy, arguing that there is a shortage of faculty to accommodate the growing number of new believers
Until now Jews in Ethiopia could only get kosher meat around the holidays when 'shochtim' would be flown in; a recent initiative by a Modern Orthodox group worked to change that
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Operation Zur Israel will allow up to 3,000 Ethiopians who identify as Falash Mura, descendants of Ethiopian Jews, to make Aliyah to Israel, where they will undergo conversions to Judaism; 'I am Jewish and Zion is my country' says one of the immigrants; Israeli immigration minister calls this 'a historic event';