256 posts categorized "Ethiopian Jews"

May 9, 2013: Scathing State Comptroller’s Report Blasts Israel’s Health, Absorption, Education And Interior Ministries
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Among the report's findings: The Zionist Orthodox school system employed more unqualified teachers than Israel’s secular public schools and than Arab schools. (Haredi schools, even when they are funded by the state, are officially private, not public, schools and are...

May 8, 2013: Israel’s Absorption Of Ethiopian Jews A Failure, Gov’t Comptroller Says In Scathing Report
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
All talk, little action: In 2001, the Government of Israel announced a special 9-year $660-million absorption program for the approximately 130,000 Ethiopian Jews then in Israel. But since 2005, government ministries have allocated only a tiny amount of the money...

April 10, 2013: 5 Israelis Busted After Beating, Robbing Blacks In Tel Aviv
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Xenophobia
Five Israelis were arrested yesterday a series of violent attacks on black people they thought were African refugees. However, two of the victims were in fact Ethiopian Jews. 5 Israelis Busted After Beating, Robbing Blacks In Tel Aviv Shmarya Rosenberg...

March 22, 2013: Video: Israel's First Black Miss Israel Meets President Obama
Comments: 29 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, is an immigrant from Ethiopia who served in the Israeli army and idolizes President Obama. The White House asked Israel to invite her to the state dinner it held in honor of President Obama this week....

March 15, 2013: Ethiopian Jews Demand Compensation For Israel’s Botched Rescue Attempt That Killed Thousands
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
The Organization for the Memory of Jews who perished in Sudan on their Way to Zion, a group representing Ethiopian Jews who were brought to Israel during 1984’s Operation Moses rescue, has filed a petition with Israel’s High Court of...

March 1, 2013: Israel To Launch Investigation Into Forced Birth Control Allegedly Given Ethiopian Women
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
The investigation is being conducted by the Ministry of Health itself and headed by acting Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, a haredi rabbi whose hasidic sect is hostile to the Ethiopian Jewish community and which does not recognize as valid...

February 28, 2013: Ethiopian Students Reportedly Face Segregation At Leading Zionist Orthodox Boarding School
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
Ethiopian students at the Zionist Orthodox boarding school in the Kfar Hasidim Youth Village near Haifa are reportedly being segregated. “It is something we have become used to; that those students who are considered the best, the Israelis, receive the...

February 28, 2013: Ethiopian Jew Wins Miss Israel Contest
Comments: 35 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Yityish Titi Aynaw won the Miss Israel 2013 title Wednesday night. The 21-year-old resident of Netanya on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline is the first Ethiopian-born contestant to win the title. Yityish Titi Aynaw Originally published at 10:22 pm CST 2-27-2013 Ethiopian...

January 28, 2013: Israel Orders Doctors To Stop Administration Of Depo-Provera Shots To Women If There Is Any Doubt That They Do Not Understand Their Purpose
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Med-Ethics
It isn’t an apology or an acceptance of responsibility. But for the first time, an Israeli government official has told doctors to stop injecting Ethiopian women – or any other women – with long-acting birth control medication known as Depo-Provera...

January 27, 2013: A Bleak And Humiliating Wedding Illuminates What Will Probably Be The Future Of Israel
Comments: 9 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The first phase is the study of Judaism for 500 hours a year, which includes basic knowledge such as praying, saying the blessings, and knowledge of Jewish holidays. In the end, they are tested. The younger ones pass fairly easily,...

January 26, 2013: Profile Of First Female Ethiopian Member Of Knesset
Comments: 7 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
At the age of eleven she started working at odd jobs but hid that from her parents. She says she was often mistreated by her employers, which helps shape who she is today. "Looking back, I think it just made...

January 23, 2013: First Female Ethiopian Jew Elected To Knesset
Comments: 8 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
A female Ethiopian Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, was elected to Knesset yesterday as number 14 on the Yesh Atid Knesset list. She is the first Ethiopian woman to be elected to serve in the Knesset. Pnina Tamano-Shata First Female Ethiopian Jew...

January 3, 2013: 3,000 Haredim Get Active Duty Draft Notices
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , Religion
3,000 haredim have now received draft induction orders and will be inducted into the IDF for active service by August 2013, the IDF announced today. 3,000 Haredim Get Active Duty Draft Notices Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com 3,000 haredim have now...

December 19, 2012: Video: Ashkenazi Haredi Rabbi Bans Ethiopian Boy From School Because Child Really Isn't Jewish Enough
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
Israel's Channel 2 documents the case of a studious Orthodox Ethiopian boy who has been banned from his school by the schools Ashkenazi haredi principal. Why? The principal has decided that the boy needs to convert to Judaism. The boy...

December 10, 2012: JDC's Ethiopia Medical Director Denies Forced Sterilization
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Dr. Rick Hodes denies an Israel Educational Television report that alleged that Falash Mura women were forced to take shots of the long-acting birth control drug Depo-Provera by the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Government of Israel in order...

December 9, 2012: Forced Sterilizations? Ethiopian Women Claim The Joint Distribution Committee And The Israel Health Ministry Forced Them To Receive Sterilization Shots
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Falash Mura women who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia eight years ago reportedly told Israel Educational Television’s investigative show Vacuum yesterday that they were forced to receive injections of Depo-Provera, the long-lasting birth control drug, as a condition to allowing...

November 30, 2012: Exploitation In Sefat
Comments: 9 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Ethiopian Jewish children as young as 10-years-old are skipping school to work illegally in the city's open air market. They're paid much less than minimum wage, and sometimes work the whole day for a half empty box of leftover fruits...

October 31, 2012: School Bus Rage: Racist Attack On Ethiopian Bus Guard In Northern Israel
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
A parent in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Bialik allegedly assaulted an Ethiopian school bus guard yesterday, breaking her nose. School Bus Rage: Racist Attack On Ethiopian Bus Guard In Northern Israel Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com A parent in...

October 10, 2012: Haifa Sexual Predator Allegedly Molests At Least 7 Ethiopian Boys
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
A Haifa sexual predator who was recently arrested allegedly assaulted at least seven teenage Ethiopian boys over a three-year period, carefully selecting and grooming them before raping them. The Jerusalem Post reports that a Haifa sexual predator who was recently...

August 15, 2012: Rescued From Slavery
Comments: 26 | Categories: Antisemitism , Books , Ethiopian Jews
Judie Oron knows the price of freedom. So does her daughter Wuditu: $111. That's the price Oron paid to free the 17-year-old Ethiopian Jew from a life of slavery and forced prostitution. Journalist rescued Ethiopian girl from slavery JOE BELANGER...

August 6, 2012: Report: New Genetic Study Shows That Ethiopian Jewish Community Is Ancient, Long Pre-Dating The Destruction Of The Jerusalem Temple
Comments: 35 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , History
The study reportedly shows that a few Jews started the Ethiopian community thousands of years ago, that they married local women (as was the Biblical practice), that they are a distinct population that did not have much intermarriage with non-Jews,...

July 8, 2012: Ethiopian Jew Allegedly Beaten And Electric Shocked By Israeli Cop Who Told Him To Go Back To Africa
Comments: 21 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Xenophobia
An Ethiopian Jew claims he was pepper sprayed and electric shocked by a cop in the Israeli city of Haifa who told him to “go back to Africa.” Jajao Bimaro Ethiopian Jew Allegedly Beaten And Electric Shocked By Israeli Cop...

July 3, 2012: Kashering Yitzhak Shamir
Comments: 20 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Stephen Spector, an academic who wrote a well-reviewed book on Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift was supposed to rescue the last of Ethiopia's Jews, omits facts and shades the truth in order to make Israel – and Yitzhak Shamir, who...

June 5, 2012: Ethiopian Jewish Leaders Object To Anti-African-Refugee Racism
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Xenophobia
“When I think how people are treating the Sudanese and of how [the Sudanese] treated us when we passed through as refugees, I am ashamed. When we arrived there, they brought us water and helped us find work so that...

May 20, 2012: And Finally They Came
Comments: 4 | Categories: Antisemitism , Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Israel’s leaders finally honor the thousands Ethiopian Jews who died on the way to Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Shay Shembal Wassa And Finally They Came Israel’s leaders finally honor the thousands Ethiopian Jews who died on the...

April 24, 2012: Ethiopian Jews Tried To Rescue European Jews During The Holocaust
Comments: 24 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , History , Israel
In 1943 an Ethiopian Jewish leader appealed to Ethiopia's Emperor, Haile Selassie, to take in Jewish refugees from Europe and allow them to settle in Ethiopian Jewish towns and villages. But it was too late. Photo: Don Robinson Kasaey Damoza...

April 22, 2012: Ethiopian Jews Say Jerusalem Government Discriminates Against Them
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
The tent camp activists say the municipality's demand to evict them contradicts its treatment of other movements that have protested there. They note that on this stretch of sidewalk, at the corner of Gaza Road and Balfour Street, the Shalit-family...

March 5, 2012: In Israel, Black Has Never Been In Fashion
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Albeit full of good intentions, Israel made every possible mistake when it came to integrating the Ethiopians. True, they weren't placed in transit camps or sprayed with DDT (like Yemen's Jews were when they came to Israel); but dumping villagers...

February 20, 2012: Photo Of Naked Ethiopian Woman Taken At Suggestion Of NACOEJ Aid Worker, Photographer Says
Comments: 12 | Categories: Art , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Ziv Koren published a picture of a Falash Mura woman immersing in a mikva. A firestorm of criticism erupted. But Koren now says the picture was taken at the suggestion of a staff member of the North American Conference on...

February 15, 2012: Porn, Art Or Journalism?
Comments: 47 | Categories: Art , Ethics , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
Is a photographer’s photo of a naked Ethiopian woman immersing in a mikva kosher? And was the photographer within his rights to post that naked picture online? The immersion photograph by Ziv Koren, blurred Porn, Art Or Journalism? Is a...

February 7, 2012: More Defacto Israel School Segregation Surfaces
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
In Netanya, from 2 Motzkin Street to 20 Motzkin Street, where residents are mostly from the Ethiopian community, children are registered at the nearby Rambam School. Those living in numbers 22 through 28, the newer houses on the block and...

February 6, 2012: Racism In Israel
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Ethiopian Israelis are often considered less desirable neighbors, and frequently have a harder time finding a job. They are perceived as a poor, underprivileged community and face the stigma of lacking the capability to contribute equally, even if this myth...

February 4, 2012: Jewish Federations Won't Intervene In Anti-Ethiopian Discrimination
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , Jewish Leadership
“The relationship between American Jewry and Israel is very delicate. Our role is not to lobby the Israeli government but to create and support initiatives that indicate a commitment to a particular issue. The difference may be subtle and nuanced,...

February 1, 2012: Video: Cops Bust 18 In Israeli Anti-Racism Demo
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Several dozen people, many of them Ethiopian Jews, protested anti-Ethiopian racism last night near the Tel Aviv Museum. Police reportedly arrested 18 demonstrators after they tried to block a public street.

January 30, 2012: Ethiopian Jews Have Post Traumatic Issues Similar To Holocaust Survivors, But Israel's Government Does Not Help
Comments: 8 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Ethiopian Jews who suffered to reach Israel have more in common with Holocaust survivors than veteran Israelis can imagine. Although many of the former immigrants suffer from psychological trauma reminiscent of concentration camp “veterans,” only one non-profit organization is systematically...

January 27, 2012: The Story Behind Knesset Row Over Censored Report On Ethiopian Jews Wife Murders
Comments: 20 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
"The successes are fabulous," she says. "We have a lot of Ethiopian students at the university level, and they are coming out working in free professions, particularly law and now teaching." She also points to Ethiopians in the Knesset, singers,...

January 25, 2012: Israeli Builder Allegedly Refuses To Sell Apartment To Ethiopian IDF Commander
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Avi Tesera, 35, a university student and a company commander in the Paratroopers Corps, told the lawmakers he tried to buy an apartment in a new housing project some five months ago. "The contractor said, 'You can't afford the price,...

January 22, 2012: Israeli School Bus Driver Recorded Spewing Racist Slurs At Ethiopian Jewish Kids
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
“People tell you that you smell bad, deal with it. Put on deodorant every day. You’ll smell better,” the driver was heard saying in the recording. “You need to respect us. We were living here before you, our lives are...

January 21, 2012: Israeli Government Stalls On Bringing Ethiopian Jews To Israel
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
The government is bringing just 110 Ethiopian Jews into the country per month, 90 fewer than the agreed figure, despite recognizing that the official reason for the reduced intake no longer exists. State stalls on bringing agreed number of Ethiopian...

January 20, 2012: Video: 5,000 Ethiopian Jews Demonstrate Against Racism
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
5,000 Ethiopian Jews demonstrated against racism in front of the Knesset Wednesday. Thousands in Jerusalem protest racism against Ethiopian Israelis Protesters march in front of the Knesset and hold signs which read, 'Blacks and Whites – We're all Equal' and...

January 19, 2012: Government Withholds Report On Ethiopian Murders
Comments: 8 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Israel's Immigration and Absorption Ministry has withheld a landmark research project documenting the murder of women in Israel's Ethiopian community. Only sections of the report, completed in 2009, are now coming to light – after Ethiopian Jews forced their release....

January 18, 2012: Chief Rabbis Try To Force End To Traditional Ethiopian Jewish Religious Leaders
Comments: 49 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia's ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of Africa, Israel's rabbis are now working to phase out the community's white-turbaned clergy, the kessoch, whose unusual religious practices are at odds with the...

January 11, 2012: Knesset Members Attack Ethiopians For Complaining About Racial Discrimination
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
In response to anti-Ethiopian housing discrimination uncovered in Kiryat Malachi and other similar incidents, Ethiopian Jewish activist Gadi Yiberkan called MKs hypocrites and said, "You have created a 21st Century version of Apartheid in Israel." MK Sofa Landver replied, "While...

January 10, 2012: Video: Ethiopian Jews Protest Racism In Kiryat Malachi
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Channel 2 exposed an agreement signed by residents of an apartment complext in Kiryat Malachi that forbade the sale or rental of apartments to Ethiopian Jews – even if the potential renter was an exemplary Israeli citizen, and thier decision...

January 6, 2012: Secret Agreement Prevents Renting Apartments To Ethiopians
Comments: 31 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Ethiopian Jews , Haredim , Israel
An apartment complex in Kiryat Malachi illegally refuses to rent or sell apartments to Ethiopian Jews. The Lubavitcher Rebbe said not to let any Ethiopians into Chabad schools, one nearby Chabad resident wrote, because they might be bastards (mazerim), and...

December 16, 2011: Memorial Service For Ethiopian Jew Who Saved His People
Comments: 11 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Baruch Tegegne saved dozens of Ethiopian Jews with his own hands, and his escape routes and his lobbying saved thousands more. The first anniversary of his passing is coming up, and the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is holding a...

November 20, 2011: An Ashkenazi Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Who Devotes His Life And Career To Ethiopian Jews
Comments: 31 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
For Rabbi Chananya Blumert - who threw in his lot with Ethiopian Jewry 20 years ago, married a woman from the Ethiopian community and, with her, is raising their six Ashkenazi-Ethiopian children - his appointment as rabbi of an Ethiopian...

November 7, 2011: Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry Names First Ethiopian Jewish Ambassador
Comments: 19 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Rachamim Elazar has been named by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Israel's next Ambassador to Ethiopia, making him the first Israeli of Ethiopian descent ever to serve as an Ambassador for the State of Israel. Rahamim Elazar with...

November 2, 2011: Operation Solomon 20 Years Later
Comments: 17 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , Israel
Despite impressive initial achievements, Ethiopian immigrants lag behind immigrants from other countries who arrived here at the same time, according to a study by the Brookdale Institute published in 2010. The report found that after making great strides in employment,...

October 22, 2011: Israeli Society Racist, Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Ethiopian Jews , Israel , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Amiel Keinan says 'great honor' to teach children from the now-closed, predominantly Ethiopian school Ner Etzion; Keinan enrolled his own son in Ner Etzion as the only white student, because 'it's an excellent school and we're against racism.' Rabbi...

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