Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian JewsGefen Publishing House Ltd, 2007 - 324 עמודים Seldom has a small grassroots organization polarized American Jewry as did the American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) and seldom has a grassroots organization been so successful. How were five governments persuaded that it was to their interest to allow the threatened Jews of Ethiopia to fulfill their dream of rejoining their brethren in Israel? From 1974 through 1991, active AAEJ members demonstrated that it was possible to rescue black Jews from Africa. They enlisted the support of college students, American Rabbis, editors of the Jewish press and other Zionists. Lenhoff's memoir provides many untold stories behind this historic drama: How Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Americans Jews worked secretly to rescue over 1,000 Ethiopian Jews. How Jerry Weaver masterminded Operation Moses - the first mass exodus of black Africans as free people - not as slaves. How two gutsy American women set up a situation allowing Israel to rescue 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in one day of Operation Solomon. There is more: the intrigues in Israel between the politics of religion and the Law of Return; the daring heroic adventures of courageous Ethiopian Jews as they trekked from Ethiopia to Sudan. These are the stories of activists who challenged the establishment and won! Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes is written from the first-hand experiences of one of the AAEJ's three Presidents, scholar-activist Howard Lenhoff. Lenhoff and Gefen Publishing House are especially pleased to present also as part of this book, the untold story of "righteous gentile," Jerry Weaver. |
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Finding Rahamim | 17 |
Learning from Israeli Activists and Scholars | 23 |
Politics of Religion and the Law of Return | 41 |
Nine Months of Gestation 19741973 | 55 |
Trailblazing Moments 19751978 | 69 |
American Jewish Establishment Drops Out | 157 |
An American Vatik in Israel Enters the Tray | 169 |
A Flare Illuminating the Landscape | 189 |
The Untold Story behind Operations Moses and Sheba | 213 |
Operations Moses and Sheba Continued | 235 |
Leaks FundRaising and Politics | 261 |
Operation Pidyon Shevuyim | 275 |
Last Flights to Jerusalem | 287 |
Trom living Roomto World Stage | 85 |
Operation Elijah The Secret Rescues from the Sudan 19791980 | 97 |
Misery Worsens AAEJ Build Momentum 19791980 | 113 |
Elijah Two 1980 Israeli Turning Point | 131 |
Winning Hearts and Minds American Rabbis join In | 143 |
A Beginning Not an End | 299 |
Important Dates in Falasha History | 303 |
Ethiopian Jews Rescued by the AAEJ | 307 |
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