SAFI, Morocco — It’s an uncommon sight for an Arab country: hundreds of joyous Jewish pilgrims gathering without fear around a rabbi’s tomb, greeted by local Muslim officials who share a prayer with ...

Morocco’s Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication has announced plans to restore the historic site of Dar Moulay Hachem ...

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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 ...

Jews of Moroccan descent, in Israel and around the globe, return to the North African kingdom often and some maintain second homes in familial regions. Jewish heritage tours to Morocco are abundant ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Harry Amar worries his little sister will never know the Morocco he grew up in, a land where Jews and Muslims lived comfortably side by side. Three-year-old Audrey's Jewish ...

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 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 ...

I was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto to a traditional French, Jewish and Moroccan family. My parents emigrated from Morocco with my older brother in tow in the mid- to late- 1960s. As with so ...

The quake came on the eve of a Jewish pilgrimage and during the local harvest season for etrogs, used in the observance of Sukkot. (JTA) — Jews and Jewish sites appear to have largely been spared ...