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To: Sabramerican

I'm aware there are a few black Jews - apparently a vast throng of 750 in Uganda - if that was the point of the link.


15 posted on 10/11/2005 8:09:52 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

No. Article was just coincidental.

The number does not depend on Jews. If more Blacks- or Asians- or Scots- converted, there would be more such Jews.

The point is that Judaism accepts all people. To assert it's ethnically based is nonsense.


17 posted on 10/11/2005 8:13:19 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I'd say that's more than a few.


Aliyah From Ethiopia

1948 40
1949 1
1950 5
1951 1
1952 40
1953 3
1954 13
1955 25
1956 1
1957 5
1958 4
1959 3
1960 3
1961 2
1962 11
1963 17
1964 8
1965 9
1966 21
1967 13
1968 17
1969 14
1970 13
1971 7
1972 40
1973 41
1974 24
1975 19
1976 10
1977 90
1978 37
1979 45
1980 259
1981 650
1982 950
1983 2,393
1984 8,327
1985 1,886
1986 236
1987 231
1988 595
1989 1,448
1990 4,121
1991 20,014
1992 3,648
1993 863
1994 1,197
1995 1,312
1996 1,411
1997 1,661
1998 3,110
1999 2,290
2000 2,201
2001 3,274
2002 2,656
2003 3,029
2004 2,121
TOTAL 70,465

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ejim.html



80 posted on 10/11/2005 4:47:03 PM PDT by dervish (no excuses)
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To: Steve_Seattle

The Ethiopian Jewish community was large. Sadly they were persecuted and many, many were killed. Tens of thousands did escape to Israel.

There are also black Jews in South Africa.


84 posted on 10/11/2005 11:30:26 PM PDT by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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