Over a long time, Jews formed distinct ethnic groups in several different geographic areas — amongst others, the Ashkenazi Jews ( of central and Eastern Europe ), the Sephardi Jews ( of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa ), the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and the Yemenite Jews from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

Unique among Jewish communities is the monasticism of the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, a practice believed to date to the 15th century.

The Beta Israel, though somewhat disputed as descendants of ancient Israelites, are widely recognized in Israel as Ethiopian Jews.

Today Ge ' ez remains only as the main language used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and also the Beta Israel Jewish community.

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews ( Beta Israel ) live in Israel.

* Beta Israel ( Ethiopia )

Tigrinya (, tigriñā ), also spelled Tigrigna, Tigrnia, Tigrina, Tigriña, less commonly Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, is a Semitic language spoken in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia ( its speakers there are called " Tigrawot, Tegaru ") by the Tigrinya people, where it has official status, and in central Eritrea, where it is one of the two main languages of Eritrea, and among groups of emigrants from these regions, including some of the Beta Israel now living in Israel.

Gudit ( Ge ' ez: Yodit, Judith ) is a semi-legendary, non-Christian, Beta Israel, queen ( flourished c. 960 ) who laid waste to Axum and its countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, and attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling Axumite dynasty.

If Gudit did not belong to one of the Sidamo peoples, then some scholars, based on the traditions that Gudit was Jewish, propose that she was of the Agaw people, who historically have been numerous in Lasta, and a number of whom ( known as the Beta Israel ), have professed an Israelite pre-Ezra Judaism since ancient times.

The sole exception within Judaism are the Beta Israel Jews formerly of Ethiopia, who regard the Ge ' ez text as canonical.

Operation Solomon took twice as many Beta Israel émigrés to Israel as Operation Moses and Operation Joshua combined.

The Beta Israel use a small gong called a qachel as liturgical accompaniment, though qachel may also refer to a small bell.

The nagarit, played with a curved stick, is usually found in a secular context such as royal functions or the announcement of proclamations, though it has a liturgical function among the Beta Israel.

Over 1990s and early 2000s, the town accepted thousands of Russian Jewish immigrants and Ethiopian Beta Israel.

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Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, whose members migrated south along with members of the Tribes of Gad, Asher, and Naphtali, into the Kingdom of Kush, now Ethiopia and Sudan, during the destruction of the First Temple.

* Beta Israel

In 1991, Operation Solomon was launched to bring the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia.

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The remaining 5 % of Jews are divided among a wide array of small groups ( perhaps the Beta Israel group of Ethopian Jews is the most important ), some of which are nearing extinction as a result of assimilation and intermarriage into surrounding non-Jewish cultures or surrounding Jewish cultures.

* 1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.

In 1952, Fisk was the first predominantly black college to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter.

E-101 Beta is a black robot with two gun arms.

It too was a defaced British Blue Ensign, but with a black disc in the fly containing the Southern Cross and the two pointers ( Alpha and Beta Centauri ).

While VHS and Beta tapes have a break-off tab to protect recordings from erasure ( as in audio Compact Cassettes and, once broken, the cavity left by the missing tab must be covered or filled before the tape can be reused ), VCCs employ a more elegant solution: a switch on the tape edge can be turned to red to protect the recordings, and back to black / brown ( depending on the colour of the cassette housing ) to re-record.

The explorer spaceship Eurydika ( Eurydice ) first travels to a black hole near the Beta Harpiae to perform maneuvers to minimize the effects of time dilation.

* Delta Sigma Theta ( Kappa Beta Chapter 1973 ; first black Greek organization on campus )

It was speculated that she was the first black woman in the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

The latter category includes such black Jews as Beta Israel.

The original term that given to the converts by the Beta Israel was " Faras Muqra " (" horse of the raven ") which the word " horse " refers to the converts and the word " raven " to the missionary Martin Flad who used to wear black clothes.

It features a black crescent moon cradling the Greek letters, Gamma, Phi and Beta.

It contains exactly the same cards as Beta, though with white borders instead of black, setting the precedent for all successive printings of the basic set, until the 2007 release of Tenth Edition, which returned to black borders.

As the nation came to terms with the Great Depression, Phi Beta Sigma and its members continued to implement programs to support the black community.

One of the accomplishments of Garvey's movement was to strengthen the connection between black Americans and Africa, Ethiopia in particular, and when Matthew learned about the Beta Israel — Ethiopian Jews — he identified with them.

Zeta Phi Beta ( ΖΦΒ ) is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority founded on January 16, 1920 by five collegiate women at Howard University.

Luther's Emblem-Luther's Emblem or seal consists of a black cross inside of a red heart inside of a rose and represents the Lutheran faith that is represented strongly in the men of Beta Sigma Psi.

The Badge of Beta Sigma Psi consists of black cross contained in a heart which is superimposed on a gold rose ( Luther's Emblem ).

It is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel.

In 1973, as Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, he ruled based on the Radbaz and other accounts, that the Ethiopian Beta Israel were Jews and should be brought to Israel.

Operation Moses (, Mivtza Moshe ) refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews ( known as the " Beta Israel " community or " Falashas ")

The Beta Israel were abandoning their Kayla language for Amharic, while the Cochin Jews continued to speak Malayalam.

Beta Israel (-Beyte ( beyt ) Israel, Ge ' ez: ቤተ እስራኤል-Bēta ' Isrā ' ēl, modern Bēte ' Isrā ' ēl, EAE: " Betä Ǝsraʾel ", " Community of Israel " also known as Ethiopian Jews (: Yhudey Etiopiya, Ge ' ez: " የኢትዮጵያ አይሁድዊ ", ye-Ityoppya Ayhudi ), are the names of Jewish communities which lived in the area of Aksumite and Ethiopian Empires ( Habesh or Abyssinia ), nowadays divided between Amhara and Tigray Regions.

Beta Israel spiritual leaders, including Liqa Kahnet Raphael Hadane have argued for the acceptance of the Falash Mura as Jews.

Some Beta Israel, however, assert even nowadays that their Danite origins go back to the time of Moses himself, when some Danites parted from other Jews right after the Exodus and moved south to Ethiopia.

In 1973 Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, then the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, based on the Radbaz and other accounts, ruled that the Beta Israel were Jews and should be brought to Israel.

on the Genome-wide structure of Jews observed that the Beta Israel had similar levels of the Middle Eastern genetic clusters as the Semitic-speaking Tigreans and Amharas.

Early secular scholars saw the Beta Israel to be the direct descendant of Jews who lived in ancient Ethiopia.

Although we don't have a single fine ethnographic research on Beta Israel, and the recent history of this tribe has received almost no attention by researchers, every one who writes about the Jews of Ethiopia feels obliged to contribute his share to the ongoing debate about their origin.

* A late ethnogenesis of the Beta Israel between the 14th to 16th Centuries, from a sect of Ethiopian Christians who took on Biblical practices, and came to see themselves as Jews.

During the reign of emperor Sarsa Dengel the Jewish kingdom was invaded and the forces of the Ethiopian empire besieged the kingdom, the Jews survived the siege, but at the end of the siege the King Goshen was executed and many of his soldiers as well as many other Beta Israel members committed mas suicides.