These books, known as the Orit, are sacred to Beta Israel, the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community. They are now the oldest known Jewish manuscripts of their kind in the world.

History will judge those who gave fat incentives to well-off immigrants while leaving thousands of at-risk Jews in Gondar and ...

A Rare Discovery:  A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books – the oldest found to date in the possession of Beta Israel.

Ethiopian Israelis allege they are regularly discriminated against in Israel. The country's Ethiopian community numbers around 135,000 people, of whom more than 50,000 were born in Israel.