A day after the joyous celebration of a religious festival, mass funerals were held in the small Ethiopian town of Arerti for the 36 people killed when scaffolding inside an Orthodox Christian church ...

There will be no "proxy war" between Egypt and Ethiopia on Somali soil, according to the country's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said there is no ...

With a café in New York City and a new cookbook, Beejhy Barhany is bringing the stories and flavors of Ethiopian Jews to the States Andrea Cooper - Freelance writer “The base of Ethiopian cuisine as a ...

With its weathered brown bricks, cavernous neo-Gothic interior and rough urban surroundings, Saint Matthew’s is a typical Church of England building. Less typically, on September 14th it was bursting ...

Soldiers are serving without their brothers. Every day of inaction is another day of betrayal. The roughly 7,000 Ethiopian Jews still waiting to come have close relatives in Israel. They have studied ...

A branch of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine faces an imminent ban from the government, which claims it has failed to sever its long-standing ties with Moscow. The impending prohibition targets one of ...

Cincinnati city officials are rolling out major technology upgrades to improve the city’s response to winter weather. Person becomes trapped in car after collision with fire truck in Cincinnati A ...

The longtime student adviser at Yeshiva University says Israel, and Orthodoxy, are strengthened by dissenting voices. For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the ...

Las Vegas residents were left outraged as congregants at an Ethiopian orthodox church continue to illegally park their vehicles on lawns and driveways. Neighbors of the Hamere Noah Kidane Mihret and ...

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. An ultra-Orthodox ...

“Hamas’s sins and crimes do not relieve the government of Israel of its obligations to make whatever efforts are necessary to prevent mass starvation,” the rabbis write. Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have ...