The May 2nd Wuste Tzega Zoominar was excellent!   A benefit to support this critically needed mental health service program, the event was very successful but more help is needed.   The demand for services is far exceeding their resources. You can watch a recording of the event, HERE.    And DONATE, please, HERE. Thank you!  

Wishing you a Happy, Healthy Passover! This year at Passover, let us celebrate our freedom, our strength, and our ability to overcome adversity. It's been tough, and we hope you and your families are well. Ethiopian Jewish groups in Israel are managing - with help from people like you - to carry on and provide education, employment and advocacy programs to those most in need. Please make a holiday contribution. Thank you! Enjoy these Passover greetings and latest updates from Israel's foremo...

Shmuel Yilma, founder and director of Forum Yerusalem, and Tsega Melaku, PhD, Chair of Keren Hanan Aynor, and other Ethiopian Israeli leaders with whom Friends of Ethiopian Jews have worked on numerous programs in Israel have initiated a humanitarian coalition in response to the tens of thousands of displaced persons in Tigray caused by the recent fighting there.    Click here to go to their Coalition Site "Humanitarian Response in Ethiopia." and learn more. Tigray, the province just nort...

Here is a heartening, positive update from Tech Career, which is rising to the challenge of the pandemic --- Dear friends, We hope you are doing well during these challenging times. During the ongoing crisis, your support and faith is more important to us than ever. It is allowing Ethiopian Israeli young adults to benefit from high quality technology training and embark on promising careers in Israel's high tech industry, and is reducing socioeconomic gaps in Israeli society. Tech-Career i...

Keren Hanan Aynor Scholarship Program (KHA) allows Ethiopian-Israeli students to realize their talents and successfully complete their degree studies. KHA scholarships, averaging $1000 per year, go to students at universities across Israel.  KHA recipients, aged 25-55, are too old to receive regular state scholarships.  Most work part-time jobs to help pay their expenses but rely on programs like the KHA Scholarship Program as well.   The BA degrees, Masters degrees and PhD's that they earn ...

A spirited conversation with the educator, activist and former CEO of the Association of Ethiopian Jews (AEJ) in The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2020: Click HERE to read this excellent Jerusalem Post article!

The New Israel Fund (NIF) has awarded the “Guardian of Democracy” Gallanter Prize to Efrat Yerday, the chair of Israel’s Association for Ethiopian Jews (AEJ) and a talented, transformational leader of the progressive movement in Israel.    Efrat spoke via video on September 13th, 2020, to receive the prize and tell her story. Efrat was awarded the cash prize in recognition of her profound moral vision which is both deeply rooted in her own community and based in the universal principles of fr...

A powerful article about Ethiopian Israeli mothers taking a stand for their community and their children: The Black Jewish 'wall of moms' fighting Israeli police brutality 'The message we wanted to convey was: ‘We are here and you can’t do what you want to our children,' says Shula Mola, a founder of the Ethiopian Israeli mothers’ group Leah Hailu      Aug. 30, 2020 | 10:37 PM Ziva Mekonen, right, protesting police violence against Ethiopian-Israel...

Last year, Yossi and Ruti Turetsky published a ground-breaking comic book for adolescents called “The Journey to Ethiopia in the Footsteps of Beta Israel" bringing the story of Ethiopian Jews into the mainstream of Jewish history and curriculum taught in Israeli schools.   It was a smash success, and they are now working on Book #2 - the history of Ethiopian Jewish leader Yona Bogale and the many Ethiopian Jewish Prisoners of Zion. Now Yossi and Ruti need your help to get "Yona Bogale and the...

The new Digital Brochure from Keren Hanan Aynor Scholarship Program is terrific.   Take a look!