False promises of Promised Land for Ethiopia's Jews
Middle East Online
29 Ottobre 2008
Ethiopia's Jews caught between waiting for imagined heaven and living in daily hell of racism in Israel
GONDER, Ethiopia - In a makeshift synagogue painted in the colours of Israel's national flag, thousands of Ethiopian Jews listen as a sermon is relayed live by mobile phone speaker from the Israeli city of Haifa.
"You are all sons and daughters of Israel. God will give you what you deserve," says rabbi Menachem Waldman in Hebrew as a young interpreter translates into Amharic, Ethiopia's de facto official language.
"We haven't stopped our long struggle to bring all of you home," he adds to passionate nods of approval.
His words offer hope to the 12,000 members of Falashmura -- Ethiopian Jews forced to convert to Christianity in the …
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