(JTA) — Tel Aviv University announced the launch of what it says is the world’s first academic program focused on the holy scriptures of Ethiopian Jews. The program, aimed currently at graduate ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (JTA) — When they flew out of this country for Israel three decades ago, Askabo Meshiha’s family left something valuable behind. Unlike many other Ethiopian Jews who were ...

An Abilene Christian University research project got a little financial help recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Curt Niccum, associate director of the Center for the Study of ...

A rich liturgical tradition that evolved around the variant of the Hebrew Bible used by Jews in the Horn of Africa is at risk of fading into oblivion, the university says. (JTA) — Tel Aviv University ...