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Jerusalem Post \u2013 March 12 2010 \u2013 by Ruth Eglash \u2013\u00a0http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JewishWorld\/JewishNews\/Article.aspx?id=170816<\/a><\/p>\n

The historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada written by Ethiopian-Jewish history expert Rabbi Menachem Waldman.<\/p>\n

Set to reach bookstores this weekend, the 195-page Haggada features prayers and commentaries on the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt translated from Amharic into Hebrew, as well as an account of how Ethiopia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Beta Israel community escaped to Israel first via Sudan in Operation Moses in 1984-85 and later during Operation Solomon in 1991.<\/p>\n

The book also includes extensive photographs and detailed explanations of Ethiopian Jewish traditions and customs connected with Pessah.
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have written many books about Ethiopian Jewry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Waldman, director of the Shvut Am Institute and a frequent visitor to the East African country, told The Jerusalem Post Thursday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But this is the first time that we are putting the story of the Ethiopian Jewish community onto our Seder table.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The book, he said, is not aimed at the Ethiopian community per se, but is meant to demonstrate to the Israeli public that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the community has a very long and deep history that is firmly connected to Judaism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oftentimes we think that Ethiopian Jews arrived here with no connection to Judaism and we need to teach them how to be Jews,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d continued Waldman, who is deeply involved in the fight to allow thousands of Falash Mura \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ethiopian Jews whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to immigrate toIsrael.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, they actually did come with a Jewish background,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he pointed out. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They celebrate Pessah in their own way. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s different from the way we celebrate it, but it is still Pessah.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Waldman explained that while Ethiopian Jews recount the Pessah story in their own version of the Seder, their texts do not include what has become accepted as the mainstream version of the Haggada, because Ethiopian Jewry had been severed from Talmudic Judaism.<\/p>\n

According to Waldman, many versions of the standard Haggada are available in Amharic, translated in an attempt to include Ethiopian Jewry in reading the accepted text, but there is no recognition of the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own way of marking the festival.<\/p>\n

Aviad Mozes, marketing director for Koren Publishers, which published the new Haggada, told the Post that the aim was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for Israelis to understand and recognize the traditions and history of Ethiopian Jewry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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