Rivlin, dignitaries sign anti-racism pact Police frequently apprehend Ethiopian youth for no plausible reason, and trigger-happy officers have been known to shoot and even kill Ethiopian young people. By GREER FAY CASHMAN Reprinted from The Jerusalem Post FEBRUARY 2, 2020 19:15 President Reuven Rivlin surrounded by the signatories who convened at the President's Residence on Sunday, t...

As 2020 begins, we thank you for your support of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, and wish you all the very best!  Thank you! GIVE      

Association of Ethiopian Jews (AEJ) CEO Shlomit Bukaya had an op-ed published by JTA last week, which was picked up by numerous Jewish publications around the United States.   Here is her insightful piece, as seen in the St. Louis Jewish Light:   Ethiopian Jews still fighting for inclusion in Israel By SHLOMIT BUKAYA Dec 5, 2019 ...

A powerful Op-Ed written by Shula Mola, Ethiopian Israeli activist and past Chair and past Director of the Association of Ethiopian Jews, was published in the weekend edition of Haaretz on Friday, October 18, 2019.    Shula has been demonstrating for justice for Solomon Tekkah - and others - since he was killed by policeman in Israel this summer.    The article was printed in the Hebrew edition an...

On behalf of Friends of Ethiopian Jews and the outstanding Ethiopian Israeli organizations and programs that we assist, we wish you and your loved ones a very happy, healthy, fulfilling New Year and a most wonderful year ahead. At the New Year, we are reminded that T'shuva, Tephilah, and Tzedakah - Repentance, Prayer and Charity - are essential elements of Jewish life which help determine what ...

Months after being shot and killed by an off-duty policeman, justice for Ethiopian Israeli teenager, Solomon Tekkah, is still being sought. FROM The Association of Ethiopian Jews - AEJ Together with young activists, the AEJ co-sponsored an important conference  on September 4th titled: "State Commission of Inquiry - Now!" to address the establishment of a state commission to investigate Solo...

Demonstrations in Israel are still ongoing - 40 days after the killing of Solomon Tekah by police. Ethiopian Israelis are continuing to publicly protest police violence and racism, with members of the community holding vigils, staging peaceful protests and taking media action daily. The Ministry of Justice has yet to open an independent investigation or make public details of the internal i...

You Have a Voice.  Now is the Time to Use it. Sign this petition and stand with Ethiopian Jews   The Ethiopian Israeli community took to the streets en mass this month after Solomon Teka, an unarmed 18 year-old, was shot and killed by a police officer in Kiryat Haim near Haifa.  This was the second such incident this year after 24 year-old Yehuda Biadga was shot ...

Solomon Tekah, age 18, was shot and killed by an off-duty Israeli policeman on Sunday evening in Kiryat Haim, a Haifa suburb.     Protests about the shooting - which was unjustified according to witnesses - were being held yesterday and today all over Israel.   Read the report in the Times of Israel, here, and the Jerusalem Post, here. The Ethiopian Israeli community is angry, devastated and ou...

Our beloved Kes (Jewish rabbi/priest) Yemanu Tamiat died on Friday June 7, 2019 at age 97  in Lod, Israel. Kes Yemanu was the religious leader of the village of Aba Antionius in Gondar, Ethiopia, one of the prettiest small Jewish villages in the foothills of the Simien Mountains.   Kes Yemanu was a staunch Zionist who led the efforts to go to Israel from the late 1970s from the Gondar region.  ...