Judaism in Morocco has a long history. Most Jews left the country for Israel after 1948. Today the small Jewish community and the Muslim population live side by side, despite the emotional fallout ...

We’ve rounded up Mimouna events around the Bay Area that feature music and dance performances and traditional Moroccan sweets ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds ...

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. Nestled in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

From India’s animal blood on doorposts to Ethiopia’s all-chickpea pre-Seder diets, the Jewish diaspora has developed ...