(RNS) — One academic's determination to teach Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect, has allowed diaspora Moroccan Jews to ...

The Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe during World War II also had its effects on North African Jews, who experienced death, ...

Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan traveled to Morocco with 25 Reform rabbis, all members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, ...

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

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 mosques at ...

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 ...

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 ...