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Rabbi Hailu Paris, 1933-2014.<\/strong>
\nPhoto copyright Chester Higgins, Jr.
\n(Sent to Kulanu by Monica Wiggan)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kulanu offers heartfelt condolences on the death of Rabbi Hailu Moshe Paris, Kulanu\u2019s dear friend and a leader and mentor of the black Jewish community.\u00a0He passed away on November 3rd, 2014, at the age of 81. May Rabbi Paris\u2019s memory be for a blessing.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Paris served as\u00a0spiritual leader and director of Hebrew education\u00a0at the Mount Horeb E.H. Congregation, an African American synagogue in the Bronx in New York City.\u00a0He also\u00a0taught\u00a0Talmud and Ethiopian History in the Israelite Rabbinical Academy, and was a member of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Hailu Paris was well-known for his writings on, and his work in support of, Ethiopian Jewry.<\/p>\n

Kulanu has been in contact with Rabbi Hailu Paris for over a decade.\u00a0In 2002 he worked with Kulanu activist Yaacov Gladstone to reach out to the Black Jewish communities of greater New York in support of Jewish communities in Uganda and Ghana. Gladstone has commented, \u201cThey have struggled alone in isolation much too long.\u00a0We want to reach out to them in a spirit of kinship.\u00a0They should be part of Klal Yisrael.\u00a0With our help we hope this will be achieved\u201d (from the\u00a0Summer 2002<\/a>\u00a0Kulanu newsletter).\u00a0In 2010 Kulanu reported that Rabbi Hailu Paris received the Kiruv Award for \u201cbringing the Jewish community closer together,\u201d given by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and The Boston Jewish Heritage Committee (from the\u00a0Spring 2010<\/a>\u00a0Kulanu newsletter).<\/p>\n

Rabbi Hailu Paris was an Ethiopian Jew, born 1933 in Addis Ababa.\u00a0He spent his early years in an orphanage before being adopted by American Eudora Paris who had migrated to Ethiopia with Israelite leader, Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford. Paris went on to attend Yeshiva University, and became a nationally known speaker and published writer on Ethiopian Jewry. He was also an activist in support of Ethiopian Jews: in the 1960s, long before American Jews really understood the plight of the Ethiopian Jewish community, Rabbi Paris joined early efforts to save the Beta Israel. According to Dr. Ephraim Isaac, another long-time activist, Paris never missed a meeting and worked throughout his life to promote understanding and support for Aliyah.<\/p>\n

Read more about Rabbi Hailu Moshe Paris in this article from The Jewish Daily Forward:\u00a0http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/208669\/rabbi-hailu-moshe-paris-revered-leader-of-americas\/?p=all<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/em>\u00a0Kulanu friend Len Lyons remembers Rabbi Paris in\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0published in Tablet magazine on November 15.<\/p>\n

[Thanks to Monica Wiggan, blackjews.net and binacf.org for much of the biographic information contained here.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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