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	Falashas
		Falasha (Ethiopic for "stranger") is the term by which the Jews of Ethiopia are commonly known: they refer to themselves as Beta Isra'el "House of Israel", never as aihud "Jews".
		Among original Falasha works, written in Ge'ez and of unknown date and authorship, are the Commandments of the Sabbath, the Book of Abba Elijah, the Apocalypse of Gorgorios, the Apocalypse of Ezra and the Death of Moses.
		The subsequent history of the Falasha communities in Ethiopia is punctuated by periods of oppression by the Christian authorities, occasional rebellion, and, in one or two cases, conversion to Christianity.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/falash.html (605 words)

	Return of a Lost Tribe - The World and I Magazine
		Faitlovich is remembered in the Falasha community as a savior, the man who enabled them to continue living as Jews and also to be reunited with the rest of their people.
		Yosef repeated the claim that the Falasha belong to the tribe of Dan and that as Jews they "must be saved from absorption and assimilation." He further urged haste in bringing them into Israel as part of the effort to bring all scattered Jews back to their homeland, to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah.
		Falasha so inundated the camps that the rate of starvation among them was higher than the rate of evacuation possible through the current means.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1988/april/cl2.cfm (3951 words)

	Green Left - Racism by any other name
		With little chance of surviving the refugee wasteland, a Christian mother convinces a Falasha woman, whose son has died, to allow her son to assume the dead boy’s identity.
		The Falashas, along with other Mizrahim (North African/Arabic Jews) and Sephardim (“Spanish” Jews culturally influenced by Islam) are forced by the politically, socially and economically dominant Ashkenazi (white European Jews) to shed their “Arabness” in order to be accepted as “real” Jews.
		In Ethiopia a young Falasha girl asks her mother “will we be white in Israel?”; Once in Israel, the Falashas are forced to adopt Ashkenazi Jewish names because their traditional names “don’t sound Jewish”;.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/666/6774 (904 words)

	Jumping to Conclusions: Ethiopian Fertility Idols or Tourist Souvenirs. © The Comparative Archaeology WEB
		The Falasha of Ethiopia have long been termed the fl Jews of Abissinia.
		For this reason, the discovery that they produced so-called fertility figurines opened speculation among ethnologists that these figurines were evidence of an ancient fertility cult.
		However, the figurines were, at least initially, modeled after West African art that was shown to the non-Falasha Gondar Patriotic Women's Association and Falasha female potters in 1960.
	www.comp-archaeology.org /FalashaFertilityIdols.htm (200 words)

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		Falasha means `stranger' or `immigrant' in the classical language of Ethiopia (the Ge'ez tongue).
		Falasha Jews have the same custom."Whenever a Falasha Jew prayed, he would first turn in the direction of Jerusalem, and Falasha literature and prayers deal constantly with such themes as the `return' to Zion and the re-establishment of priestly worship in the temple.
		The airlift of the Falashas was a manifestation of Israel's primary mission.
	debate.uvm.edu /dreadlibrary/ebardfield.html (2990 words)

	Falasha - InformationBlast
		The Falasha ('exiles' or 'strangers'), known to themselves as the Beta Israel ("House of Israel"") are Jews of Ethiopian origin.
		The Falasha come from a Jewish enclave in Ethiopia which is said to have lost contact with other Jewish communities until the 1860s.
		Some scholarly rabbis knowledgeable with the Talmudic responsa over the centuries, assert that the Falashas are indeed the desendants of the tribe of Dan one of the Ten Lost Tribes originally part of the Biblical patriarch Jacob's twelve sons, the founders of the original Jewish Twelve Tribes.
	www.informationblast.com /Falasha.html (534 words)

	Queen of Heaven: The Life and Times of Mary Magdalene, Chapter 7 Volume II
		Falasha moved up on her flank, and again another spurt welled from within Artaxes, and again he ran faster.
		Falasha did not answer, and Miri knew in the coming moments many of the women around her would soon be dead.
		And then from out of nowhere, Falasha was there, a smile of triumph and embarrassment on her face, hobbling on a slashed leg, carried towards Miri by two other warrixen.
	www.marymagdalene.ca /02_0107.htm (7519 words)

	Falasha Black Jews of Ethiopia
		One fact is clear from all the sources: The Falashas have always regarded themselves as Jews, believers in the Faith of Moses, exiled from Eretz Israel, and quite distinct from the native Gentiles.
		The result was the effective loss of Falasha independence, with the final downfall of the Jews of Ethiopia sometime in the early 17th century.
		In this respect it resembles the deaths of the earlier and later ones who preferred suicide to obeisance of men who are not of their faith, for the Jews do not consort with the Christians, even to the extent of a single word...
	robtshepherd.tripod.com /falasha.html (3829 words)

	URJ - Print Item
		The plight of the Falasha Jews is deplorable.
		To the government of Ethiopia: to abide by the recognized principles of international conduct according to which inhabitants of countries are permitted to leave.
		We appeal to the authorities to permit the Falashas to seek migration to the ancestral land of the Jewish people and in most instances to rejoin their families there.
	urj.org /PrintItem/index.cfm?id=7390&type=Articles (234 words)

	AllRefer.com - Falashas (Judaism) - Encyclopedia
		In modern times there were pogroms against the Falashas, and some, known as the Falash Mura, converted to Christianity, often without actually becoming practicing Christians.
		In 1975 the Israeli rabbinate recognized the Falashas legally as Jews.
		During the Ethiopian civil war, about 10,000 Falashas from the Gondar region of Ethiopia were airlifted (Sept., 1984–Mar., 1985) to Israel.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Falashas.html (338 words)

	Blues for Falasha - Glenn Spearman - Music Reviews
		The "falasha" in the title refers to the group of Jews in Ethiopia who claim to have descended from Solomon and Sheba...
		The "falasha" in the title refers to the group of Jews in Ethiopia who claim to have descended from Solomon and Sheba and who practice a kind of pre-rabbinical Judaism.
		His identification with the Falasha came from their common roots in Africa and his identification with the Falasha as a kind of cultural anomaly, like himself.
	www.mp3.com /albums/333504/reviews.html (831 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Ethiopian Jews flock to Israel's promised land
		By the end of the 20th century, the Falasha Mura had converted to Christianity, but today their blood claim qualifies them to journey to Israel on a complimentary one-way ticket to modern houses, education and jobs.
		The Falasha Muras' Jewish status has been subject to more scrutiny, but in February 2003, the Israeli government decided to grant them the right of return to Israel for Jews, known as aliyah, heeding the advice of rabbis.
		The gradual movement of the Falasha Mura is a very different phenomenon to the dramatic airlifts staged by Israel in the past.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040519-0500-ethiopia-jews.html (945 words)

	falasha history
		Falashas, native Jewish sect of Ethiopia.The origin of the Falashas is unknown.
		The Bible of the Falashas is written in an archaic Semitic dialect, known as Gecez, and the Hebrew
		Falasha (or Beta Israel), a Jewish Hamitic people of Ethiopia who claim descent from Menelik I, the son of the queen of Sheba and King Solomon; have no knowledge of Talmud but use a Bible and
	www.falasha-recordings.co.uk /teachings/ras.html (525 words)

	Falasha - Encyclopedia.com
		The Falasha call themselves House of Israel and claim descent from Menilek I, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
		In 1975 the Israeli rabbinate affirmed that Falashas were Jews, and from 1980 to 1992 some 45,000 Falasha emigrated to Israel, leaving probably only a few thousand in Ethiopia.
		The arrival of Ethiopian (Falasha) jews at their settlement camp in Ashkelon.Part of the continued contingent of OPERATION MOSES whereby thousands of Ethiopians of Jewish ancestry were all (PAR116520)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-364172.html (518 words)

	The Falasha exiles or strangers are Ethiopians who some...
		The "Falasha" ('exiles' or 'strangers') are Ethiopians who some authorities consider to be Jews.
		Secular scholars are divided on when and how Judaism was adopted by the Falasha: whether from Jews living in Yemen, from the Jewish community in southern Egypt (Elephantine), or even from a permanent Jewish community in Ethiopia implied in Isaiah 11:11 ("ca" 740 BCE)
		The utter isolation of the Falasha was reported by an explorer James Bruce, who published his "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile" in Edinburgh in 1790.
	www.geodatabase.de /Falasha (534 words)

	Author ponders status of Ethiopia's Falasha Jews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The author noted that concerns were bound to mount as the Falasha Black Jews were going through an "ethnic quarantine" within the land that was supposed to be their own, Israel.
		The book, Ndiaye pointed out, tries to explain the Black and African features of the Falashas and their botched integration in a community that rejects them because of those features, while providing "historically sifts" through the Falasha issue "between myth, Israel's intrigues and reality".
		What the Falashas seem to be experiencing to their detriment poses a 'Falasha problem' similar to the 'Jewish problem' in the past.
	www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng051469&dte=03/08/2004 (259 words)

	From Falasha to Freedom
		“From Falasha to Freedom” is an autobiographical saga of one of the pioneers of “Operation Moses”; and the Ethiopian community’s integration into Israeli society.
		Falasha, defined as “stranger” or “landless”, was used as a derogatory name for Ethiopian Jewry.
		Shmuel Yilma was born in 1968, the second of seven children, in an agricultural village of approximately thirty families.
	www.israelbooks.com /bookDetails.asp?book=476 (254 words)

	Brave epic traces history and raises questions - The Boston Globe
		Death and deprivation is everywhere, and when a Falasha woman (Mimi Abonesh Kebede) loses her son to disease, she knowingly takes another woman's young boy (Moshe Agazai) as her own.
		Father Yoram (Roschdy Zem) is a macho man but mother Yael (Yael Abecassis) is loving, and when the parents of the boy's schoolmates show their racist colors, she passionately assails them and wins the day.
		When conservative rabbis round up the Ethiopians to ``purify" them (by putting a drop of blood from their penises into a ritual bath), the film re-creates the real-life protests that erupted in response.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/10/06/brave_epic_traces_history_and_raises_questions (729 words)

	history - The Falash Mura - Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews
		Over the years, large groups of Falasha Mura came from the villages to compounds in Addis Ababa.
		In the mid-1990's, the Ministry of Absorption agreed to bring over those Falasha Mura with immediate family members in Israel.
		This was not under the "Law of Return" however, but under the "Law of Family Reunification." In 1997, the Netanyahu administration decided to stop immigration of Falasha Mura after a final group of 4,000 immigrants.
	www.iaej.co.il /pages/history_the_falasha_mura.htm (173 words)

	Adherents.com
		At one time the Falasha consisted of about 150,000 people, but years of subjugation led to a drastic decline in the population...
		Today about half of the Falasha population resides in Israel, where they have made the slow transition from living in settlement camps to becoming assimilated into Israeli society.
		The name 'Falashas', meaning 'strangers', is pejorative and is never used by the Beta Israel ('House of Israel') as these Ethiopian Jews call themselves.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_273.html (2910 words)

	Middle East History: It Happened in May
		The odyssey of the Falashas is a tale of daring and social inequity in present-day Israel.
		The flow of Falashas to Israel resumed in July 1990, shortly before the State Department finally agreed to Israel’s repeated request for it to hold a high-level meeting with Ethiopia.
		Pent-up resentment in the Falasha community finally erupted in fury on Jan. 24, 1996, when it was learned that Falasha donations to Israel’s national blood bank were routinely thrown away.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0596/9605036.htm (1585 words)

	Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews (1983) - Overview - MSN Movies
		Synopsis: The tragic plight of Ethiopian Jews (Falashas) takes center stage in this well-researched and moving documentary by Simcha Jacobovici.
		The Falashas ("exiles") have lived for over 2,000 years in this region and are vastly outnumbered in a state that is half Muslim, with Christians making up the next largest religious group (Jews are too minor a group, less than 1%, to figure in statistics).
		But the discrimination arises from politics: Jews were massacred after the 1974 Marxist military coup -- not...
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=28835 (94 words)

	Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry
		The Falasha were the flsmiths, weavers, and potters of northwestern Ethiopia.
		Given the low social status of the Falasha, intermarriage with their Christian neighbors was not common, but it obviously occurred as large numbers of Falasha were absorbed over centuries into the Christian community.
		The Dergue, brutal and inefficient though it was, upset traditional land-holding practices in the countryside and some of the Beta Israel or Falasha seem to have gained access to land and cattle and moved up in the social scale from artisans to farmers.
	www.studentstruggle.org /present.html (9477 words)

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