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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • —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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  • of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). It is a dialect of Qimant. The name Kayla (ካይላ) is sometimes also used as a cover term for both Beta Israel dialects...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Jewish communities, including more recent Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Beta Israel-Ethiopian Jews, various other Jewish ethnic groups, as well as a smaller...
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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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  • southern European populations including Cypriots. Bene Israel and the Cochin Jews of India, and Beta Israel of Ethiopia, may also have ancient Jewish origins...
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    Jewish ancestry within the last few centuries. The Bene Israel and Cochin Jews of India, Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and a portion of the Lemba people of Southern...
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