This year, American Thanksgiving and the Ethiopian-Israeli Sigd festival fall just one day apart. The Sigd festival is celebrated each year on the Hebrew date of 29 Cheshvan, 50 days after Yom Kippur. It is the “festival of supplication,” marked with fasting and purification, including a ceremony to renew the covenant between the people and God and a […]
Shlomit Bukaya
Shlomit Bukaya is the director of the Association of Ethiopian Jews in Israel.