In the 1997 Seinfeld episode “The Strike,” George Castanza is embarrassed when his father Frank shamelessly promotes Festivus, a December 23 celebration that Frank created years ago in reaction to the ...

(JTA) — Synagogues and Hebrew schools in the United States looking to help their communities celebrate Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday, have gotten a helping hand this year, thanks to Sigal ...

For many Jews, the evening of Nov. 22 is just a quiet Tuesday night, but for Ethiopian Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, Nov. 22 is the beginning of Sigd, a pilgrimage holiday holy to the Beta Israel ...

(JTA) — For years, the 50th day after Yom Kippur has been marked by the pilgrimage of hundreds of Ethiopian Jews dressed in white and carrying colorful umbrellas to Jerusalem to celebrate Sigd. This ...

I have rarely missed the annual Sigd event in Jerusalem. When I lived in Ethiopia, the annual holiday was a fixture of the Jewish community, taking place 50 days after Yom Kippur each year and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It’s an extremely inspiring, festive, heart-warming, and hopeful time of the year in Ethiopia," says Susie Geda, the owner of ...

Ethiopian Airlines announced at World Travel Market today (WTM) the launch of Ethiopian Holidays. Ethiopian Holidays is a new package of special inclusive tours tailored to travellers’ interests that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Owner of Queen Sheba Restaurant Zion Taddese ...