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For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) lived together across the lands of North Africa, building ...
After years of breaking barriers — and enduring xenophobia, Islamophobia, lesbophobia, and more — author Sepi Shyne stepped ...
Morocco to Israel is the second-most common migration route for Jewish migrants (160,000). Following the founding of Israel in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews left, and today only a few ...
Morocco, once home to one of the Arab world’s largest and oldest Jewish communities, has become the second biggest source of ...
Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch, Assads, Morocco, Sept. 7, 2015. (Ben Sales) ...
In 1956, Morocco declared independence from France, suspending Jewish immigration and travel abroad. When Moroccan Jews again had the right to emigrate in 1963, more than 100,000 moved away ...
Some Moroccan Jews claim, without persuasive evidence so far, that Jews first arrived in what is now Morocco sometime after destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple in 586 B.C.E.
Some Moroccan Jews claim, without persuasive evidence so far, that Jews first arrived in what is now Morocco sometime after destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple in 586 B.C.E.
“‘Moroccan Jews recalled with pride, the affection, the memory of your grandfather, King Mohammad V, who was a brave protector and guardian of the Jews.
At the request of Morocco’s king, prayers for rain were held at synagogues across the kingdom. The prayers were recited on Jan. 11, one day after countless Muslims said similar prayers in ...
Jews and Jewish sites appear to have largely been spared following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday, killing at least 2,100 people and plunging some of the poorest areas of ...