Many Falash (Ethiopian Jews) were settled in Israel after being airlifted away from the wars and famines that beset their homeland in the 1980s and 1990s
This ARTICLE FROM THE BOSTON NEWS looks at the experience of the Falash (whom some believe to be descended from the "lost tribe" of Dan) in Israeli society and the cultural clash between the Orthodox rabbinate and the Ethiopian clergy (the kaddosh) who have retained "the traditions of Biblical-era priests"
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