In the half darkness of an adobe hut in Gondar, Ethiopia, 20-year-old Gezahegn ("Gezi") Derebe pulls out an acoustic guitar. As on many evenings when the power goes out, he entertains his family by ...

The Jewish Agency’s cultural department and the Hebrew World Union are planning to reopen Hebrew schools in Abyssinia for Falasha Jewish children, it was reported here today. The schools for the ...

A team of international researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Melka Wakena archaeological site, located in the southeastern highlands of Ethiopia, where excavations have been led by ...

Born to a Jewish family on Long Island, Jessica Singer was given the Hebrew name Yehudit, after the ancient figure said to have saved the Israelites by beheading an Assyrian general. For most of her ...

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Gezahegn Derebe, 20, left his village to come to Gondar, Ethiopia, the hub for Ethiopia's Jewish community, where he prepared for a new life in Israel. Now, more than a decade later, he remains in ...