{"id":26827,"date":"2020-12-20T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26827"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:50:15","slug":"director-of-onos-international-center-for-the-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-addresses-how-religious-colonialism-tried-to-eradicate-the-status-of-traditional-ethiopian-jewish-spiritual-leaders","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/director-of-onos-international-center-for-the-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-addresses-how-religious-colonialism-tried-to-eradicate-the-status-of-traditional-ethiopian-jewish-spiritual-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry Addresses How Religious Colonialism Tried to Eradicate the Status of Traditional Ethiopian-Jewish Spiritual Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_26828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26828\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Dr.-Sharon-Shalom-Ynet-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Dr.-Sharon-Shalom-Ynet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Dr.-Sharon-Shalom-Ynet.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom (Photo: Ynet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Who are the Kessim, the traditional Ethiopian-Jewish spiritual leaders, who led Beta Israel in Ethiopia?\u00a0 How were they influenced by their encounter with the religious establishment in Israel. What is the unique role of these leaders in the lives of Ethiopian immigrants Israeli society and the Jewish world? Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom addresses these questions in an article on YNet, \u201cThis is How Religious Colonialism Tried to Eradicate the Status of the Keisim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/articles\/0,7340,L-5733521,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/articles\/0,7340,L-5733521,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the Kessim, the traditional Ethiopian-Jewish spiritual leaders, who led Beta Israel in Ethiopia?\u00a0 How were they influenced by their encounter with the religious establishment in Israel. What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":190,"template":"","class_list":["post-26827","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26827","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=26827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}