question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ethiopic characters. The Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews, are an African community of the Jewish diaspora....
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Ethiopian Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants from the Beta Israel communities in Ethiopia who now reside in Israel. To a lesser...
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Kayla is one of the names of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) community among their traditional neighbours, after which the Kayla language is named...
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Jewish group in Ethiopia is the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews. Offshoots of the Beta Israel include the Beta Abraham and the Falash Mura, Ethiopian...
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well as many smaller Jewish communities, such as the Beta Israel, the Cochin Jews, the Bene Israel, and the Karaite Jews, among others. Likewise, over...
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Kingdom of Simien (redirect from Kingdom of Beta Israel)
Simien (Hebrew: ממלכת סאמיאן), sometimes referred to as the Kingdom of Beta Israel (ממלכת ביתא ישראל), refers to a legendary Jewish kingdom said to have...
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Falash Mura (category Beta Israel)
Falash Mura is the name given to descendants of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia who converted to Christianity, primarily as a consequence of Western...
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organization Black Hebrew Israelites African Hebrew Israelites in Israel Black Judaism Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews Cochin Jews or Malabar Jews,...
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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul. Yoram Hazony. 2001. Page 54 The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: studies on Ethiopian Jews By Tudor...
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Ashkenazi Jews descended from pre-Holocaust immigrant Lithuanian Jews. Beta Israel living primarily in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia and sparsely...
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Ten Lost Tribes (redirect from Lost tribes of Israel)
groups did. The Beta Israel ("House of Israel") are Ethiopian Jews, who were also called "Falashas" in the past. Some members of the Beta Israel, as well as...
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Haymanot (category Beta Israel)
Haymanot (Ge'ez: ሃይማኖት) is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews. In Geʽez, Tigrinya and Amharic, Haymanot...
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—is a community regarded by some as a crypto-Jewish offshoot of the Beta Israel community. The size of the community is estimated to be somewhere upwards...
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progenitors who came from the ex-USSR in 1989 or later), about 3% as Beta Israel (Ethiopia) and 7.9% as a mix of these, or other Jewish groups. Note that...
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being more ethnically and geographically rooted, e.g., Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), and Bene Israel (among the ancient Jewish communities of India). Normatively...
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Priest (section Beta Israel)
rabbi or other professional religious leader. The traditional Beta Israel community in Israel had little direct contact with other Jewish groups after the...
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northwest territory of Italian East Africa that would place them among the Beta Israel Jewish community already living in Italian East Africa. Jews from Europe...
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Aliyah from Ethiopia (category Beta Israel)
Beta Israel people to Israel. Early forms of Zionism have existed in Ethiopia since the mid 19th-century, as shown in the 1848 letters from the Beta Israel...
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considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Jubilees is considered one of the pseudepigrapha by...
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New York, and is estimated at 40,000. Beta Israel or Falashim of Ethiopia, tens of thousands migrated to Israel during Operation Moses (1984), Operation...
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romanized: kāyliññā) is one of two Agaw languages formerly spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). It is a transitional dialect between Qimant and Xamtanga...
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Orthodox Church. They are historically related to, but distinct from, the Beta Israel. The ethnicity's population is reported to be 172,000, according to the...
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living in Israel—representing the Beta Israel, Ashkenazi Jews, Iraqi Jews, Libyan Jews, Moroccan Jews, and Yemenite Jews, as well as Israeli Druze and...
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Modern Hebrew due to the large Beta Israel presence in Israel. Currently Jewish Amharic is declining as the Beta Israel gradually abandon Amharic in favor...
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is part of the biblical canon used by the Ethiopian Jewish community Beta Israel, as well as the Christian Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Other Jewish...
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which the best-known examples are the Qemant and Ethiopian Jews (or Beta Israel) ethnic groups, but Judaic customs, terminology, and beliefs can be found...
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Estonia North European Eswatini Eswatini Sub-Saharan Africa Ethiopia Beta Israel; Qemant people Ethiopia Sub-Saharan Africa Faroe Islands Faroe Islands...
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also practiced Ethiopian Orthodoxy, and many were Beta Israel Jews. Thousands of Agaw Beta Israel converted to Christianity in the 19th and early 20th...
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Operation Moses in 1984, in which 10,000 Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) were evacuated to Israel. In 1985 Israel reportedly sold Addis Ababa at least US$20...
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Tribes of Dan; Gad; Asher and Naphtali: Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, whose members migrated south along...
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