Sharon Shalom
Jewish writer
Sharon (Zewde) Shalom (Hebrew: שרון שלום; born 1973) is an Israeli rabbi, lecturer and Jewish author. He is a rav of one of the Tzohar "open communities" in Kiryat Gat. He was born Zaude Tesfay in a Jewish community in the North of Ethiopia. He works as a rabbi in the Merkaz Shapira Or Meofir special program for Ethiopian emigrants. He lectures in Jewish ritual and tradition at Ono Academic College in Israel, and wrote From Sinai to Ethiopia: the Halachic World and Ethiopian Jewish Thought.
Early life
Sharon Shalom was born in 1973 in Ethiopia and grew up in a small Jewish village located in the North of Ethiopia. Twenty Jewish families lived together separately from the Christian population surrounding them.
He listened to his grandfather that God would one day rejoin Jews around the world. This biblical promise led him and a friend to leave the village to set off for Jerusalem at age seven. They got lost and returned home.
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