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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Lag BaOmer bonfires and picnics have been adopted by some with a fervor as if Moses himself had commanded them. Mimunah is celebrated as if Judaism can’t do without it. More recently, Ashkenazic Jews ...

Bus 78, packed with young Ethiopian Jews, fills with excited chatter as countless Jerusalemites make their way to Tayelet Haas Promenade’s annual Sigd festivities. Ethiopian Jews celebrate Sigd, one ...

On October 15, guarded by dozens of Ethiopian soldiers and joined by Gondar’s deputy mayor, we laid the cornerstone for a new Jewish compound in Gondar: a school, nutrition center, beit midrash, and ...

The Yigal Alon Multidisciplinary High School student body reflects the full tapestry of Israeli society, with students who are Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, religious and secular, native-born and ...

Some 165 medical professionals have received fellowships through Save a Child's Heart; the nonprofit has helped over 8,000 ...

My message from the Sigd is that we must break free from the mindset of division. Each of us must relinquish a bit of ego and absolute righteousness for the sake of the collective," MK Solomon said.