Bee­jhy Barhany is the found­ing own­er and exec­u­tive chef of Tsion Cafe, an Ethiopi­an and Israeli restau­rant in Harlem’s his­toric Sug­ar Hill neigh­bor­hood. She was born in Ethiopia, raised most­ly in Israel, and moved to New York in 2001. In 2003, she found­ed BINA Cul­tur­al Foun­da­tion, a cul­tur­al orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the empow­er­ment of the Beta Israel (Ethiopi­an Jew­ish) com­mu­ni­ty with­in the Unit­ed States. She is a fre­quent cook­ing teacher and speak­er at Jew­ish cul­tur­al events in the New York area. She lives with her hus­band and two chil­dren in Harlem.