{"id":26821,"date":"2020-12-20T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26821"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:43:41","slug":"director-of-ono-center-for-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-headlines-boston-program-marking-memorial-day-for-ethiopian-jews-who-perished-on-their-way-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/director-of-ono-center-for-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-headlines-boston-program-marking-memorial-day-for-ethiopian-jews-who-perished-on-their-way-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Ono Center for Study of Ethiopian Jewry Headlines Boston Program Marking Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews who Perished on their Way to Israel."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Sharon-Shalom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26822\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Ayala-Ingedashet-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ayala Ingedashet performing in the video \u201cFlesh &amp; Blood\u201d (Promotional still courtesy: jewishboston.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Ayala-Ingedashet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Ayala-Ingedashet.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayala Ingedashet performing in the video \u201cFlesh &amp; Blood\u201d (Promotional still courtesy: jewishboston.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, the founding Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, the world\u2019s first institution of its kind, will present at a program organized by Boston\u2019s CJP honors the 4,000 Ethiopian Jews, known as the Beta Israel, who died during this mass immigration.\u00a0 Other speakers include: award-winning news reporter\u00a0<strong>Branu Tegene<\/strong><strong> and singer <\/strong>Ayala Ingedashet, the first Ethiopian-born Israeli singer to get a major-label deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Dr. Sharon is an author and lecturer with a broad education in philosophy and theology. Rabbi Shalom is a captain in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves and immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia on his own at the age of 9. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Bar Ilan University\u2019s Department of Jewish Philosophy and wrote his doctoral dissertation on \u201cJudaism of Fate: Theology and Religious Practice in the Beta Israel Community.\u201d He is a senior lecturer at Ono Academic College and serves as the rabbi of the Kdoshei Israel community in Kiryat Gat. In 2012, Rabbi Shalom published his book, \u201cFrom Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic World and Ethiopian Jewish Thought,\u201d which was translated into English. In addition, he is involved in writing curriculum on the topic of Ethiopian Jewry and its culture for Jewish educational institutions in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala Ingedashet performing in the video \u201cFlesh &amp; Blood\u201d (Promotional still courtesy: jewishboston.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, the founding Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, the world\u2019s first institution of its kind, will present at a program organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":194,"template":"","class_list":["post-26821","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}