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FEB-1992 JPC

A Black Jew?

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Well, from Ethiopia!
These years of the beginning of the 1990's Israel was going trough a more Democratic Government, that later lead to Camp David, etc...
There was an idea to try to show the universality of Judaism...
They found this ancient Jewish Community in Ethiopia, at the time already suffering from big poverty and war.
A Boeing from El Al was sent, and some hundreds of Ethiopian (black) Jews came to Israel.
What followed, is History...
In sum, they quickly realised how profoundly RACIST the Israeli society really is, even towards their own!
Something the Safardite Jews had already discovered a long long time ago...


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