Rabbis & Ethiopian Jews
Pictures of documents, including my letters to the Lubavitcher Rebbe about rescuing Ethiopian Jews, are posted below, as is a Hebrew translation of the Rebbe's response to me as published in Kfar Chabad Magazine. Please click to enlarge.
An English-language translation of the Rebbe's letter on the rescue of Ethiopian Jews can be read here.
Information on Chabad, Holocaust Rescue and Ethiopian Rescue can be viewed here.
A teshuva from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein can be viewed here.
More from Rabbi Feinstein on Ethiopian Jews is posted here.
Rabbi J. David Bleich's overview of the halakhot regarding Ethiopian Jews, excerpted from Contemporary Halakhic Problems (Vol. 1), can be read here.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Shlomo Aviner rule that a cohen can marry and Ethiopian Jewish woman.
A rabbinic 'protest' to this website can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking here. [It is also posted on the Adath.com website.]
[It is important to realize that I did not see the Rebbe's letter written to me twenty years ago until it was published (without my permission) nine months ago in Kfar Chabad Magazine. If I had received the Rebbe's letter then – in other words, if the Rebbe's office had not confiscated it, which is what seems to have happened – I would have publicized it immediately. Chabad bought twenty years of silence by confiscating that letter.]
Please click on the thumbnails to read the documents. Thank you.
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