Today sees the start of the Jewish
festival of Passover which marks the biblical story of the Jewish exodus from
Egypt and the journey to the Holy Land.
And, like Jews around the world, the
community of around 9,000 Falashmura - Ethiopian Jews - in Gondar, northern
Ethiopia, are getting ready.
Festivities begin with a meal - or
seder - where the unleavened bread, matzah, is eaten.
It's also traditional to eat a
hard-boiled egg in salt water, symbolising, according to some interpretations,
sadness over the slavery the Jews had to endure, and rebirth
And a paste made up of nuts, ginger
and bananas - called haroset - is also eaten. That represents the mortar used
to build the pyramids in Egypt.
The Falashmura are soon hoping to
emigrate to Israel, in a modern day recreation of the Passover story.
Credit: BBC
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