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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Judaism/Africa
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:49:48 -0400
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From: "Pat Dugan" <>


> The Jews from Ethiopia. They were airlifted out 10-20 yrs ago (Operation
> Solomon, I believe). They're living in Israel.

There were several operations and the bulk of the Ethiopian Jews had been
removed by the early 90's but some continued to trickle out until 1999.

I need to point out that the Ethiopian Jews are different from the black
Jews Judy has been talking about. The Ethiopian Jews were long known; the
group Judy is talking about was only discovered in the 20th century and only
fairly recently confirmed by DNA testing for the Cohenic gene, although I
must add that they always knew who they were.

Dennis

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