Food can bring people together, but can it also tell the story of a culture’s past? The Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte County put that idea to the test.

1 of 10 — Facilitated by the Israeli government, a young couple and their children are going on aliyah from Ethiopia — a purposeful ascent, or "going up" to Israel. The facial cross tattoos, often ...

The Ethiopian Jewish customs officer at the West Bank border crossing is not convinced by my story. "And what is the purpose of your visit to Israel?" He flicks through my British passport, pausing ...

Haftam Yizhak Heathwood used to be private about her Jewish migration story. After she was born during the Ethiopian civil war, her family fled their home in Gondar on foot when she was a baby, and ...

Chef Beejhy Barhany, the proprietor of Tsion Cafe, a kosher and vegan Israeli-Ethiopian restaurant in Harlem, was born in Ethiopia. As a child, she spent three years in Sudan, then lived in Ashkelon ...

GONDAR, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The dusty compound where Ethiopian Jews await word on whether they can emigrate to Israel could not be more different from the world I left behind when I took the same ...

In New York City, where apartments are crowded side-by-side and top-to-bottom like so many Jenga blocks, histories often overlap. I’m standing in front of a stately brownstone in Harlem that used to ...

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 ...