BTW….I finally had a chance to check with a friend who is familiar with various ethnic Jewish Communities outside of EY. She said the Jewish agency had estimated perhaps a total of 1500 Ethiopian Jews settled in North America, some direct immigrants and others resettled after initial being flown into EY during the airlifts in the late 1980s. Small pockets scattered in neighborhoods from the New York metro area to Miami, LA, Toronto and Montreal. If the ehrliche (OP) surgeon had seen “large numbers” in his/her hospital I would suspect that itself would have been a neis me’shamyim since statistically, a few medical emergencies a year in any hospital would be the norm for a community of at most, several hundred in the tri-state area.
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