DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Spain’s Ceuta and Melilla have become the center of a migration crisis, reviving geopolitical tensions ...

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 ...

For all of us who don’t know much about geography, international political crises are always welcome. Since the start of ...

Jewish history and culture in Morocco will soon be part of the school curriculum — a “first” in the region and in the North African country, where Islam is the state religion. The decision “has the ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project, Sephardi Jews from Morocco and Gibraltar settled in Cabo Verde in the mid-19th century, after Portugal abolished the Inquisition in 1821. Cabo ...

Historians agree that the presence of Jews in Morocco dates back to the first destruction of Solomon’s temple by the Babylonians, in the sixth century BC – meaning that since the Middle Ages, “Morocco ...

A deputation of settlers from North Africa called on Dr. Giora Josephthal, Jewish Agency treasurer and head of its absorption department, today to demand that all possible action be taken to obtain ...

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 ...