Thousands attended ceremony at promenade overlooking the Old City, including former Hamas hostage Avera Mengistu The post ...

Former Hamas hostage Avera Mengistu, who was freed in February, attended Sigd prayers in Jerusalem for the first time.

Local Jewish and city leaders say celebrating Sigd publicly can fight antisemitism and showcase Jewish diversity.

Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to Israel brought a willingness to contribute and a pure Zionism centered on longing for ...

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released new figures on the Ethiopian community ahead of the Sigd holiday.The post Israel’s Jewish Ethiopian population reached 177,600 in 2024 appeared first on ...

1 of 10 — Facilitated by the Israeli government, a young couple and their children are going on aliyah from Ethiopia — a purposeful ascent, or "going up" to Israel. The facial cross tattoos, often ...

On Sigd, declared a national holiday in Israel in 2008, some members of the Ethiopian Jewish community fast and recite tehillim. Countless members of the community from all across Israel gather in ...

We celebrate Sigd with love, pride, and joy. And with that same love, we ask Israel to embrace our future, to open doors, ...

Completing the aliyah of Ethiopia’s 7000 remaining Jews would proclaim to the world - and to ourselves - that even in war, ...

Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks When a delegation of ...

Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has called for an investigation into the reported administering of Depo-Provera contraceptive shots to Ethiopian immigrant women without consent.