This correspondence reveals that “messianity” was less that of the migrants than that of the emissaries themselves. Moroccan ...

The only known Jewish museum in the Arab world is tucked away in a residential neighborhood of the Moroccan economic metropolis of Casablanca, guarded by a lone soldier. Among other items, the museum ...

Relations between Jews and Muslims in Morocco have historically been strong – a coexistence that is frequently contrasted ...

Twentieth-century Jewish communities were described according to a homogeneous historiographical prototype that subordinated ...

Descendants of Jews from Cape Verde plan to rededicate a burial plot in the West African island state next week, largely thanks to funding by the king of Morocco. The rededication ceremony is ...

In the old Jewish quarter of Morocco's coastal city of Essaouira, a newly-opened "House of Memory" has been dedicated to the historic coexistence of its Jewish and Muslim communities. Andre Azoulay, ...

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence of diaspora Jewish communities throughout history and the world. Last year ...

Jewish Moroccan activist and BDS Morocco founder Sion Assidon, 77, died on Friday following a nearly three-month coma. The Casablanca public prosecutor announced on Saturday that the cause of death ...

A Jewish-owned building was set on fire in a possible anti-Semitic attack in the Moroccan town of Oujad. The March 10 suspected arson in Oujad, located 120 miles south of the capital Rabat, happened ...

For rights activist Sion Assidon, a Moroccan of Jewish descent who also describes himself as Berber and Arab, Zionism breeds anti-Semitism in today's Arab world but aversion to Israel's policies is ...

Arabic music filled the air of Laura Elkeslassy’s Moroccan Jewish childhood home in Paris, especially on Fridays before Shabbat. But she didn’t grow up speaking Arabic, so she didn’t understand the ...