From Ethiopian Sigd Made Official Israeli Holiday: The Knesset decided to formally add the Ethiopian Sigd holiday to the list of state holidays, and will be holding an annual state ceremony for it during the Hebrew month of Heshvan, which usually falls in October or November. Sigd is a traditional Ethiopian day of fasting, dedicated to prayers for the rebuilding of the Temple and giving thanks for the right to return to the Holy Land.
Read More +I would most definitely be for this holiday to be added to the Jewish calendar. A Jew should grab at any opportunity that would enable him to repent and become closer to HaShem. From JPost: Hundreds of members of the Ethiopian community signed their names to a petition Thursday calling for Israel’s religious leaders to incorporate the annual Sigd festival in the calendar of religious Jewish holidays. As in previous years, Ethiopian Israelis young and old, Israel-born and new and veteran immigrants were bused from around the country on Thursday to Jerusalem’s Haas Promenade to mark the ancient holiday, whose
Read More +From Spy Recalls Secret Mission Saving Ethiopian Jews: In the early 1980s, Gad Shimron, then a young Mossad operative, was sent to Africa to find a way of spiriting away to Israel the thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan who had fled the Eritrean conflict. Shimron, now 57, said in an interview promoting the English edition of his book Mossad Exodus, “We’re the only Westernized country to have brought out Africans in order to liberate, rather than enslave them.” Tens of thousands moved to Israel, where their community now numbers 100,000. Shimron and a small Mossad team flew to
Read More +I’m tired of having to endure the deceit when Muslims and other arabists claim Islam is peaceful. I don’t know why the world was cursed by having its main energy source located under the feet of savages. Received the following by email:——————————– FaithTree.com has the very sobering story of “Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in this northern Nigerian town, [who] was in high spirits last Wednesday (March 21) as she made her way to school where she teaches government… Soon her happiness would be cut short. Muslim students at the school, along with outside
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Ethiopian and Somali troops have captured a key border town early Monday, a day after Ethiopia sent fighter jets into neighboring Somalia and bombed several towns in a dramatic attack on a powerful Islamic movement. Ethiopia’s prime minister announced Sunday night that his country was “forced to enter a war” with Somalia’s Council of Islamic Courts after the Muslim group declared holy war on Ethiopia, a largely Christian nation. Residents said Islamic fighters left the town of Belet Weyne on the Somali-Ethiopian border overnight after Ethiopian fighter jets bombed Islamic positions on Sunday. Col. Abdi Yusuf Ahmed, a Somali government
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