By HANNAH BROWN NOVEMBER 23, 2020/Jerusalem Post Sigdiada started in 2012, and this year it marks its ninth edition. “I chose not to be a priest, I chose to be an actor,” said Shay Pardo, an Ethiopian-born performer who founded and runs Sigdiada, a celebration of Ethiopian art and life, which will take place this year November 26-28 at Habimah Theater, but without an audience, due to the pandemic. Pardo was born in Ethiopia to a family of kessim (spiritual leaders of the Ethiopian Jewish community), and said, “My grandfather was the kohen of kohanim.” Choosing to become an entertainer instead,
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