Interviews from the Sigd festival at the Tayelet promenade in Jerusalem on the Jewish Ethiopian community and its traditions.
Featuring:
* Ethiopian Chief Rabbi Yosef Hadane
* Chief Kes Raphael Hadane
* Shoshana Ben-Dor, Israel director of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
* Lior, an assistant to researcher Dr. Yossi Ziv, author of Festival and Holiday in the Ethiopian Jewish Tradition of Beta Israel
* Dr. Avraham Neguise of the South Wing to Zion organization
* Aviv Melese, musician and author of Circles of Life – From Ethiopia to Israel
* Yehiel Yisrael of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews on his experiences in Sudan in the 1980s rescuing refugees
These interviews were conducted years ago and I am happy to re-upload them as a historic record.
Also check out my previous podcast: Ethiopian Aliyah – the Struggle to Immigrate to Israel
