Interview with Ethiopian Chief Rabbi on History of Sigd

Interviews from the Sigd festival at the Tayelet promenade in Jerusalem on the Jewish Ethiopian community and its traditions.Featuring:* Ethiopian Chief Rabbi Yosef Hadane* Chief Kes Raphael Hadane* Shoshana Ben-Dor, Israel director of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry* Lior, an assistant to researcher Dr. Yossi Ziv, author of Festival and Holiday in the Ethiopian Jewish Tradition of Beta Israel* Dr. Avraham Neguise of the South Wing to Zion organization* Aviv Melese, musician and author of Circles of Life – From Ethiopia to Israel* Yehiel Yisrael of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews on his experiences in Sudan in the 1980s rescuing refugeesThese interviews were conducted years ago and I am happy to re-upload them as a historic record.Also check out my previous podcast: Ethiopian Aliyah – the Struggle to Immigrate to Israel Get full access to Jewish History Moment podcast with Ben Bresky at benbresky.substack.com/subscribe