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Show To D The Salt Late Tribase, Sunday, February 18. 1973 East African Hill People Win Battle for Recognition as Jews rabbis have almost half of the 250 Falashas living in Israel and plan to do the same for Falashas. converted By Thomas Ackerman United Press International - TEL AVIV Twenty thousand descendants of an ancient East African hill people have won a quarter-centurbattle to make Israels religious establishment recognize branch of them as a long-los- t Judaism. According to those who have championed their cause, the Falashas of Ethiopia, home of the queen of Sheba, may well be one of the 10 lost triDes of dozens more. Only One Source y Israel. Even Israels two chief rabbis have lent their support, demanding a minimum of relifor the instruction gious The Visitors recently returned from Ethiopia say the Falash as rich Hebrew vocabulary, Jewish-likprayer rituals and decorative stars of David can derive from only one source, the Holy Land. Since the Falashas first became known to the outside world about a century ago, dozens of curious Jews have set out in quest of their fabled land. Jewish mystics passed on tales of forbidden cities in e they listened as though I were talking about the coming of the Messiah. the land below the Nile Some said the Falashas habited the true site of the Garden of Eden at the source of the river Sambatian, said to cast its stones into the air all week long and to stop flowing each Sabbath. in- Ovadiah is an native of Eritrea whose father was the chief rabbi in Ethiopia before the family came to Palestine in the 1930s. He has led the fight for the Falashas right to their Jewishness. olive-skinne- d Found Roily River find a river that kicked up a few pebbles, said Heizi Ovadiah, a I did Target of Persecution His e Hassidic Jews in handlebar foot-lon- g . (ultra-orthodox- mus- tache bristling, Ovadiah said the African tribe is the target of systematic persecution and missionary activity that will make it extinct within the next generation, unless , . They have only one hope, army sergeant major who last visited the Lake Tana region north of Addis Ababa a year ago. When I told an audience of ) Jerusalem about it. nently embittered by Zionism. The religious establishment had based its opposition to their being Jewish on the fact that the Falashas knew nothing of Judaisms vast body of ritual law, the Talmud, compiled during the past 1,900 years as an appendix to the he said, and that is to come to Israel." Ovadiah said the Ethiopian government refuses to allow the Falashas to leave the country, part of its policy toward those who can provide manpower for its army. Since 1949, a small but steady stream of Africans has reached the shores of Israel by various clandestine means. But because the rabbinate refused to recognize them as Jews at first, few obtained citizenship. Some Go Back Old Testament. The trouble with the rabbis was that they learned history from the Talmud in reverse Ovadiah said. backwards, the Falashthat obvious It's as accept the chief rabLinate and thirst for acceptance as Jews. came last The breakthrough OvaRabbi month when Chief naa he announced diah Yosef converted 40 Falashas living in scattered groups throughout ISAfter listening to the historical, clerical and eyewitness about the tnbe testimony Ovadiah and from Sgt. Maj. declared. Yosef Rabbi others. that they 1 am of the view own are our brothers, our flesh." f K- According to Ovadiah, some went back to Ethiopia perma OGDEN SALT LAKE CITY FASHION PLACE ISew Busine Pay, Talk, Lonely Find Help BERKELEY, CALIF (UPI) A new kind of business sells conversations for $5 a half and $1 every 10 minutes . hour, thereafter. 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