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Limudiah – Changes It Started Last May... t started last May with an Israeli policeman beating up a uniformed to be Made? IEthiopian-Israeli soldier. A passerby took a video and it went viral. or some time, the Israeli Ministry The soldier, Corporal Damas Fikade, a 21-year-old immigrant, had just been Fof Education did not pay very close given an award for valor in the Gaza War, and had previously been named attention to after-school programs like our one of Israel’s most outstanding teenagers, which added to the uproar. The Limudiah classes. School principals were incident opened floodgates of long-repressed Ethiopian anger, hurt and pretty free to bring in ones they like. despair over issues that included more than police brutality. Now, under a more formal registration The thousands of Ethiopian Israelis who took to the streets, marching in policy, the Ministry wants to be more Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, were also protesting against inequality in housing, involved, and in June, two important employment, income, social relations and education. officials paid a visit to our Limudiah at the Yeshurun School in Rishon LeZion where Each of the marches started peacefully and stayed peaceful for hours. But we have 85 children. We felt honored, as did the school principal and faculty, and we were all pleased that the visit seemed to go very well. We’re even hoping the Ministry will give us some help with costs, or perhaps a curriculum consultant we want but can’t afford. Of course, with closer involvement we can also expect to be asked to make some changes. It looks as though government policy is leaning toward requiring compulsory integration in Ethiopian programs, maybe as high as 20%. We’ve always been happy to take in a few non-Ethiopian pupils – you may have
noticed some non-Ethiopian faces in our Photo: EPA. The protest marches were mostly peaceful - and, as you can see, well integrated. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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LIMUDIAH... However it started, the results CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 were ugly, with police using tear gas and water hoses, and some marchers Limudiah photos, mostly belonging to throwing bottles and stones. Russian or South African or American immigrant children – but larger numbers Government officials could have may make the Limudiah experience blamed the protesters and cited somewhat different. Operations Moses and Solomon, the great rescues of Ethiopian Jews in
Shoshana Ben-Dor, our Israel Director, the 1980’s and 90’s, as evidence that Blankfeld. Tali Photo: and her staff feel sure we can handle it. Israel was anything but racist - or New Knesset Member Avraham Neguise We’ll keep you informed – and we are at the Israel Day Parade in New York cited its laws against discrimination in June. always interested in your comments. and hate speech. Instead, they agreed that something had gone from which to speak out. very wrong and must be righted. So good things may come from the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said, whole painful business. “In recent weeks we have all seen and Perhaps the new mood may include heard the cries and pain of Israelis reviving the apparently dead aliyah of Ethiopian origin. The protesters of 6,000 Jews left behind in Ethiopia. uncovered an open wound, alive The Committee of Exceptions, which and bleeding, within Israeli society… NACOEJ helped to establish to look We have erred. We have not seen or into rejections of Jews with family listened enough. Our country must already in Israel, has been painfully do better.” silent. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In one of the last Limudiah classes Indeed, it seems that even Damas said: “Racism contravenes the before the Yeshurun School closed Fikade, the decorated soldier whose ethos of the Jewish people. We for the summer, Shirley Kandelker encounter with a policeman started cannot accept this in the Jewish and some first-grade pupils played a the whole wave of revelation and State and we will fight it.” He called matching/opposite-similar card game protest, has relatives left behind in an emergency cabinet meeting, as part of a language lesson. Gila Croll, Ethiopia - and other Ethiopian IDF and formed a new ministerial the new Education Ministry Director of heroes are demanding that their committee, chaired by himself, Learning Skills in Elementary Schools, families must be made whole again. to look into Ethiopian grievances and Yael Nagler, National Advisor on Stay in touch with us. In these Language Teaching in the National and solutions. troubled times, our advocacy Religious Stream Schools, sat down Many Ethiopians applauded the efforts on behalf of aliyah, and our to watch. Yeshurun School Principal protests but denounced the violence; educational efforts which affect so Revital Nahami stood behind them. Corporal Fikade went on IDF radio many social issues and determine Everyone enjoyed the game. to say, “I am opposed to violence future success or failure, matter more against citizens – and against police. than ever. It’s important that they hear our side, but violence would not solve the A personal note from Barbara: IT STARTED LAST MAY... problem.” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Watching the recent Ethiopian Ethiopian-Israeli leader Avraham protest marches on TV, I couldn’t some ended in violence. Neguise (long-time NACOEJ friend help remembering the Ethiopian and co-worker on aliyah and social protests I participated in a few years There are still questions about issues), now a new Knesset member, ago in Jerusalem. Even then we whether the violence was begun by was soon elected Chairman of the were protesting against agonizing Ethiopians, or by others whom the Knesset Committee for Immigration, delays in aliyah. Northern Tel Aviv Police Chief called Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, Then, too, the marchers carried “anarchist groups”. getting an important official position
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banners, but most read: “Bring Life in Israel: Friends Forever at the My Mother Home!” Protesters held up photographs of their left- Dead Sea behind relatives – mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings. When we passed through residential areas, local Israelis leaned out of their windows to cheer and encourage the marchers. On one blazing hot day, when we finished up near the Knesset and stood still for speeches, IDF soldiers who had been posted there shared their water bottles with the weary, thirsty Ethiopians. Nobody threw anything at anybody. I hope that with Avraham Neguise in the Knesset, the broken Ethiopian families will not get forgotten among the many other issues now being discussed. he five young women pictured above met in the Ramla/Lod High The endless delay in family School as teenagers almost a decade ago. They’ve remained close reunification is not only a continuing T cause of heartbreak and anger in friends ever since. the Ethiopian-Israeli community, This “selfie” was taken recently when they were on a holiday together but it even exacerbates the poverty at the Dead Sea. in which so many Ethiopian families Three of them are Ethiopian, one is from the Former Soviet Union still live, and still scrape together a (FSU), and one is a Sabra. few shekels every month to send to relatives in Ethiopia. It is our fervent From left: this is Irma Hitibashvili. She studied behavioral science and hope that this tragic situation, too, is now working in manpower/human resources in Ramla. She’s 27, and will be righted quickly. came from the FSU. Nurit Biyadgilin, next in line, studied mechanical engineering and Barbara is now a Captain in the Israel Defense Forces ground forces. She’s 26, and was sponsored by NACOEJ in high school and college. She’s from P.S. I’m adding this in late June, Ethiopia. having just returned from ten Ricki Goshu works at Atgar, a human resources agency, and had a intense days in Israel. I bring some good news: one of the IDF heroes, NACOEJ sponsor (Karen Gens, our NACOEJ Director of Sponsorship Chalachew Mekonen, has finally Programs!) in both high school and college. Ricki is 27 years old and welcomed home his left-behind from Ethiopia. brother, Alemneh. Other news: Tikva Azaria works as a team manager at Shlomo-Sixt, a car rental an internal police investigation and towing company, and simultaneously is studying for a business has cleared the police officer administration degree at MLA College in Or Yehuda. She’s 26, from who beat up Corporal Fikade! An Ethiopia. agreement between police and some Ethiopian-Israeli leaders is Tzili Cohen is a student of industrial and management engineering at supposed to bring about better Ruppin Academic Center. She’s 26, and a Sabra. relations, but it’s not accepted by For a dozen different reasons, but especially in troubled times, welove all Ethiopian Israelis, and protests this picture. have continued.
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From a Most Grateful Father given to my daughters throughout the years went solely for their education, I am always thinking how to advance my daughters toward high and challenging education, on my own first of all and with the help of good people like you in addition. With great appreciation to you and the wonderful staff of your organization, which is contributing greatly to the Ethiopian community.
Ilan Leijashel , Etti’s and Tzlil's father.
* Course that prepares students for college admission tests.
“…I would like to open this letter by saying…” tti and Tzlil Leijashel are sisters who have had ver the years, there have NACOEJ sponsorships. Recently their father, Ilan, E been many, many lovely met Shoshana Ben-Dor. Ilan sent her the following O letters exchanged between lovely note: Ethiopian-Israeli college students To Miss Shoshana Ben Dor, and their NACOEJ sponsors. I was happy to meet you yesterday at the This one, sent by Yafa Kabeda seminar day. Enclosed are pictures from my to her sponsors, David and Aviva daughter Etti’s graduation ceremony. She Rubin, is very moving: completed her degree with honors and she is “First of all I would like to open this letter by saying now a doctoral student. thanks. Thank you for giving me the sponsorship. You are the head of an organization that Thank you for the will to help the future of a student supported my daughters ever since they got that you don’t know personally. accepted to the school of arts, from elementary “Thank you for the personal and close connection that school and until Etti began to study at Hadassah you have with the Ethiopian-Jewish community in Ein Kerem. Israel, even though you are not physically here. Thank I have no words to describe the appreciation you for simply caring for others. and thanks that I owe you and your organization. “With your permission, I will share with you how I You have a significant part in my daughters' felt when I received the notice that my request for achievements, Etti is a proven fact to it and Tzlil, a sponsorship on behalf of the North American who placed the goal of studying architecture at Conference on Ethiopian Jewry has been granted – the the Technion University, provides the second notice…came during the exams period of the winter proof. semester. In order to make the picture clearer I would “Besides feelings of joy it caused motivation and a like to say that Tzlil had a meaningful service in great desire to succeed and invest more for the sake the army for 3 years in the position of a flight of the future. supervisor at an operational base. She was “I wish for myself to be able to give others…without released on March 2, 2015 and three days later expecting anything in return, just as you are doing. I she already registered for a psychometric* appreciate your activities. Yafa” course. This kind of “nachas” can be yours also! Just contact On this opportunity I want to note that Karen Gens at [email protected] or call her at every shekel that came from the aid you have 212-233-5200, ext. 230.
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A New Answer to an Old Question fter Israel was born in 1948, preparing for a career in medicine, college students still have to pay for Asomeone suggested a new answer law, science, education, government their own rent, clothes and food, to a complex question, “Who is a Jew?” work, architecture, engineering, social books and carfare, and other basic The new answer that was proposed work, the arts, etc. essentials. at that time was: “Someone who has Either way, your relationship really Parents often can’t help. Part-time a grandchild in Israel!” matters. jobs are hard to find. The modest Not everyone agrees, of course, To your student, your sponsorship monthly stipend you provide through but if you like that answer, but don’t can make the difference between our Adopt-A-Student program takes have your own grandchild in Israel success and failure. For a high school off much of this heavy burden. It (or even if you do!), why not “adopt” student, your $350 yearly donation greatly reduces the number of bright, an Ethiopian-Israeli high school provides the textbooks, school hard-working Ethiopian students or college student as your Israeli supplies, carfare, special courses who have had to drop out because grandchild? and school trips Ethiopian parents they can’t feed or house themselves. If you choose a high school can’t afford. High school kids can feel Relationships that begin in college student, you’ll have the pleasure of lost without those things. They feel with a sponsorship can continue corresponding with a bright teenage “different” – in a bad way. through graduation (you may girl or boy who will deeply value your But many of our students have written be invited), a wedding (you’re an help and support. to their sponsors, “Because of you, I feel honored guest), parenthood and If your choice is a college student, like all the other kids at school.” (great) grandchildren. you’ll be in touch with an exceptional For college students, the cost of So, if you want “adopted young man or woman who’s sponsorship is higher - $1320 a year – grandchildren” in Israel, please email overcome many challenges to qualify because expenses are much greater. Karen Gens at [email protected], for college (after three years in the The Israeli government generously or call her at 212-233-5200, ext. 230. army or national service) and is now covers many immigrants’ tuition, but A "grandchild" is waiting for you!
It All Adds Up! Knowing that the money is coming understands the challenges of being in, rain or shine, really helps with an immigrant in a new world and At NACOEJ we cherish each and budgeting so we know how many relates to the experiences Ethiopian every donor. Every single donation children can receive our nutritious Jews have in adjusting to life in Israel. is a blessing to the many Ethiopian lunches. Monthly donations also help We're so grateful to her and happy Jews we assist in Israel. you budget, and are a great way to to be a regular part of her life. Please We have a special place in our keep track of your charitable giving. give thought to becoming a monthly hearts for donors who make the Here’s a real (but anonymous donor too. The amount can be small choice to give to NACOEJ monthly. for privacy) example. One of our or large, whichever suits your life. They provide added value by being monthly donors has been giving Please call us at 212-233-5200 ext. 0 a specially reliable blessing we know generously to NACOEJ since 1988, or email [email protected]. We’ll we can count on month after month. often three to four times a year. help you plan for monthly giving Consider the following: let’s say She's now in a nursing home, living and smooth out the details. We look you give $18 a month. That comes to on a fixed income. Recently, she chose forward to hearing from you. $216 a year. Ten donors just like you to make her donations monthly, If you wish to set it up online, will bring that to $180 a month, and chose a comfortable amount, and please go to www.nacoej.org, and $2160 a year. It all adds up! arranged with our office to set it up. select the We’ve used $18 as an example We streamlined the process for her. large green because that amount will pay for four She’s a very special lady, who button at the top. You’ll then see, lunches for four hungry children about traveled by herself from Europe to right away, that you can select a to start in our NACOEJ Limudiah after- Palestine at age 14, back in 1936. She recurring donation. school classes of intensive education.
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“…my opponents were unable to catch me, I left them all behind!”
zaunt Teka arrived in Israel a week at a stadium of 220 meters, and we trained at Ain 1990 at age five. While different heights [altitudes].” in high school she participated She found the training in Ethiopia challenging but the in athletic competitions and terrain was magnificent, which aided her training and her her PE teacher, seeing her motivation. potential, suggested she begin Azaunt came back to Israel, finished school, and ran in a serious training program. So an Israeli half-marathon, which she won – “I decided to she joined a local athletic club. run with all my force and my opponents were unable to After high school, she joined catch me,” she said, “I left the IDF and served as a fitness them all behind!” coach. She trained for running She has since gone on with combat soldiers. When she became an officer, to compete in Berlin. she didn’t have as much time to train but still did so on Sponsored by Ita weekends. Marcus during her After the army, she studied physical education at the critically important years famed Wingate Institute, where as she put it, “…I took the of study at Wingate training another step forward…” While still a student, she Institute, Azaunt is a won a 1500 meter race and 5000 meter sprints and was champion runner in named Israel’s national champion! Israel. At some point in She was then given the opportunity to train in Ethiopia, the future she hopes to which she described as “…absolutely amazing.” She teach as well, but right trained with a team, unlike in Israel where she normally now she is concentrating trained alone. She was assisted by a coach every day and on training and races. found it very important. Her NACOEJ sponsorship helped pave Azaunt's way to Describing the training in Ethiopia, Azaunt said, “… her success as an international Israeli runner. we would usually run in the surrounding fields and once
“The unbroken chain of the Jewish people…” e often receive touching letters from you, our dear mailing that I received from NACOEJ, I am guessing Wfriends. This one struck a special chord and we will some 25 years ago. I was so touched by the words in let it speak for itself: that 'will' that I have kept it all these years and have “Dear Ms. Ribakove Gordon, periodically quoted from it or showed it to others. The words have touched me so during my life. They often “I have always read and followed the plight of the resonate and remind me of the unbroken chain of the Ethiopian Jewry with tremendous interest. In fact, in Jewish people and to ‘use your time wisely. It goes so the 80/90s I heard you speak several times and read fast.’ your NACOEJ letters diligently. I remember with a smile walking on the upper West Side in NYC one “While I never knew Jonathan or any member of the Shabbat morning and seeing you walking. I think you Giesberg family that you mention, I wanted to thank were likely quite late to your Shabbat lunch due to my them for their contribution to the cause of Ethiopian having 'just one more question'. Jewry. May their memories be for a blessing.” “I read your current mailing and in particular your Sincerely, Erwin Mevorah tribute to the Giesberg family. I am enclosing a copy Thank you, Erwin, for your warm and kind words. How of Jonathan Giesberg’s ethical will that was in a well we remember Jonathan’s message. It’s framed and
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hanging on the wall in our New My Name is Shai Demetu degree in the Beit-Berl College. Today York office. Now we want to I am a 2nd year student of community coordination and management. share it again with you. Several hai’s story is so Despite my motivation to study, there are years before his untimely death Sheartwarming, we’ve decided to from cancer, Jonathan, NACOEJ’s and I shouldn't mention that with first President, wrote this “ethical include his entire minimum wage it is hard to study and will”, following a Jewish tradition bio from when he provide for a family. of passing on one’s insights applied for an AAS No institution supports an old student and advice. Jonathan’s could sponsorship in 2009, like me, so I pay my tuition myself - what puts me on the edge of a breaking point. have been written today - or a through his thank-you letter to his sponsors today. My current situation is intolerable, and thousand years ago: even though I work full time I still can't If ever there was a story that close the existing gap. Learn about yourself. Who told you why NACOEJ college you are, what you think, Therefore I decided to address you with a sponsorships are so vitally important request for a stipend so that I can pay my what you want – to do, to to Ethiopian-Israelis, this is it! Even know, to be. more so because Shai is not a an educated person. Love who you are and 20-year-old. You’ll see below. Thank you in advance, Shai Demetu. respect yourself. *The year of Operation Solomon. 2009: My name is Shai Demetu. Reach out to those you love 2015: To Mr. & Mrs. Faust Halley and and to your neighbors, and I immigrated to Israel in 1991* with my mother and 6 siblings. My father Ruth Anne when you can, to those you had passed away in Ethiopia before Shalom and greetings, do not know. we immigrated, and left me with the Dear family, thanks to your sponsorship Don’t be afraid of silence, responsibility of the family's livelihood I am a university graduate. Despite the the dark, lack of words or and security (I am the oldest son). When losing your thoughts – relish we immigrated I had just been married. Hebrew languages. the pause. After immigrating we lived in an absorption center in Ashkelon for two Cultivate friends but don’t completed my studies; I completed all of years. The absorption center gave us my obligations for the degree except for crave them. Be sensitive that three hot meals a day - for anything else one assignment. I made it against all odds pressure from the crowd can we had to manage ourselves. I realized at the age of 47. lead you astray. Be yourself – that me and my family can't go on like Dear family I didn't let you down, on this don’t sell yourself. that, because we couldn't even get us opportunity I want to thank you from the some new clothes, so I went to work in bottom of my heart for supporting me Share your talents with all kinds of works in order to provide for Hel your community. Moving throughout the years. I also want to thank my family. dear Yehudit* for making the connection the world ever so slightly off I went to the Ulpan for only three months between us. center will bring you more - too short a time to learn good Hebrew. As I mentioned in my previous letter I will than collecting all the world’s After two years in the absorption center graduate at the end of June, I will receive treasures. we moved to a permanent apartment in the grade for the internship in mid-June, Ashkelon. Of great importance, be and with that I will complete my long Since then I have been working in any proud you are a Jew and journey. I want to thank you dear family work possible, and I am trying to absorb once again for helping me during a long love your religion and your into Israeli society. Two years ago I won period. Your help has taught me not to G-d, for it teaches all I have a contract of the Ashkelon municipality to give up. learned and much more I be the community coordinator on behalf Sincerely, Shai Demetu and his family have yet to understand. You of the city. In my job I am doing what I can to absorb the Ethiopian community are part of an ethical past * Yehudit Abramson is the NACOEJ/Israel in Israel, while preserving its tradition. I Coordinator of College Sponsorships. and present. You are part of am working in this job for more than 6 a people, a history, a law. You years, and despite my seniority and wide To have the very special opportunity are part of the flow of life. range of services I provide, I am still paid of helping a deserving Ethiopian Use your time wisely. It minimum wage. Israeli, no matter the age, to receive a goes so fast. My father always educated us for college education, email Karen Gens acquiring knowledge and studying. Jonathan Giesberg at [email protected] or call her at 212-233-5200, ext. 230.
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Condolences Congratulations to… From Caroline Barg/NACOEJ Director of t NACOEJ Board member Dr. Ruth Gruber who, at 103, is still receiving Communications: well-deserved accolades. The latest is the Eugene J. Keogh Award for The year was 1984. NACOEJ had become Distinguished Public Service, from the New York University Alumni a client of a marketing firm specializing in Association, citing Ruth as a “Renowned journalist and humanitarian Jewish direct mail, where I was working. who helped transport 1,000 Jewish refugees to America, and NACOEJ was one of my clients. Our on-staff documented 4,500 Holocaust survivors aboard the Exodus 1947” designer was CC Krohne, who began a long during the “illegal” post-war immigration to Palestine. Mazel Tov, career of representing NACOEJ’s image to Ruth, and many more! the world in countless different incarnations. t NACOEJ Board member Caryn Huberman on her marriage to Michael CC designed the first direct mail packages Morganstern. We are so happy for two dear friends! sent out for NACOEJ and did so with a talent t NACOEJ friend Pastor Demusani Washington, a founder of the and competence that helped us to achieve Institute of Black Solidarity with Israel, on being named by the great success. Her ideas were innovative Algemeiner Press as one of the 100 top people positively influencing and stood apart from the rest of the direct Jewish life. Among other things, he gives powerful speeches mail world. She was creative and willing to defending Israel on college campuses. try many new ideas. When I became the Director of t Former NACOEJ President Elsie Shemin-Roth and sister Ina Bass, Communications for NACOEJ in 1992, on accepting, from President Obama, a posthumous Medal of CC had moved on to freelance work and Honor, on behalf of their late father, Sergeant William Shemin, for continued designing for NACOEJ until her extraordinary valor in World War I. untimely passing at age 60 this past March Sergeant Shemin and Private Henry Johnson earned the nation’s 2015 – over 30 years. highest military honor by saving the lives of many wounded Throughout that time CC came up with the American soldiers during a battle with German troops, though designs that you now recognize – Lifeline, wounded themselves. brochures, letters, reply cards – virtually France, where the battle took place, honored both men with their everything you receive in the mail from Croix de Guerre with Palm, but the two Americans were denied NACOEJ. our country’s highest award, apparently because Sergeant Shemin Even when she was struggling with the was a Jew, and Private Johnson an African American. terrible effects of cancer, she kept working. During the ceremony in the White House, President Obama said, And even in March, when things sadly took “It’s never too late to say thank you.” a dreadful turn for the worse, she assured us It’s also never too late to say it again! After her term as NACOEJ that she would be back at work very soon. President, Elsie, a nurse, was honored for having led a team of We want to publicly offer our deepest Hadassah nurses, under fire, in the besieged city of Sarajevo in gratitude for all CC did for us and for Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993, 1994 and 1995. She was named a Ethiopian Jews over all those years, and national hero then, and remains one still to all of us at NACOEJ. send our heartfelt condolences to her Thanks again, Elsie, and Yasher Koach (job well done!), to you and husband, Martin Krohne. your father.
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