Mar 10, 2011

Israel still struggles to integrate Ethopian Jews; Felix Lembersky’s paintings of Babi Yar

 



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Late last year Israel accepted what's set to be the final wave of Ethiopian immigrants. But the country is still struggling to integrate the 120,000 who've arrived over the past three decades.
Malkamu Chani spent 10 years in a camp in Gondar, Ethiopia, waiting for permission to move to Israel. In early January, he finally flew to the promised land and moved with his wife and child to a spare, two-room immigrant-housing apartment in Mevasseret Zion outside Jerusalem. His neighborhood was a sea of clotheslines strung across modest backyards. The acrid smell of green coffee beans roasting in nonstick frying pans filled the tiny space that serves as his living room and kitchen. Chani, 28, who worked as a nurse in Ethiopia, wore a striped collared shirt and a knit blue yarmulke on his head. More
In advance of the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, an exhibition features the paintings of Felix Lembersky, who defied the Soviet regime and depicted the event as a Jewish tragedy More
BY CHAERAN FREEZE

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