DaasYochid: thanks for the sources ! If my memory serves me correctly, in the early days of the alyah of the Ethiopian jews, the israeli rabbanut required “giyur lechumro”, just as R’Moshe zz’l indicates in his teshuvo.Subsequently, with the arrival of the masses and “operation Moses” (1984), the rabbanut accepted that they were full jews. R’Moshe was niftar in 1986-so this teshuvo was probably written much earlier He still calls them “falashas” in the theshuvo-a term the Ethiopian jews were adamantly against and was subsequesntly avoided. In the teshuvo, R’Oshe zz’l also says time and time again that it is up to the rabbonim in israel to decide and he won’t mix in. Also,very importantly- he writes that there is no “cheshas” of mamzeirus, as they did not do kiddushin kehalocho.
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