Black and Jewish journalist Nadine Batchelor-Hunt travels to Israel to meet the Ethiopian community and explore this dual identity.
After years of having her Jewishness questioned because of her blackness, Nadine Batchelor-Hunt travelled to Israel to meet the Ethiopian Jewish minority, for whom being both black and Jewish is the norm.
I grew up in a secular household in Birmingham, and it was only when I went to Cambridge University and met Jewish people that I started to connect with my roots. Eventually I went through a conversion process and have been a practising Jew. There are struggles that accompany someone with my identity - such as racism, rejection and anti-Semitism - but I also have a deep sense of pride in the path I have chosen.
Thousands of those refugees walked for many weeks to reach camps in Sudan - some 1,500 died on the journeyafter waiting in transit camps in Ethiopia for years For the Ethiopian Jews, to begin with, adjusting to life in a non-black society was a culture shock, as it was for Israelis who were not expecting them. The community underwent radical change, from being a Jewish minority in a black country to being a black minority in a Jewish country.
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