The building was renovated following his death in 2011. Morocco has about 3,000 Jews, a tenth of its original Jewish population before the establishment of the state of Israel.

For Jews throughout the Diaspora, Passover is celebrated for eight days. The first Seder begins on the evening of Saturday, April 12 — the 15th of the Jewish month of Nisan — and ends well after ...

Some Moroccan Jews claim, without persuasive evidence so far, that Jews first arrived in what is now Morocco sometime after destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple in 586 B.C.E.

Morocco ended that official animosity in the late 1980s and has maintained ties with Israel since then. In recent years, the royal house has undertaken the reconstruction of dozens of Jewish ...

Photos by Sven Piper Offering a fresh take on celebrating Passover, 80 people attended Jewish Vegan Life’s inaugural Vegan Seder on April 17 in conjunction with Open Temple in Venice.

“We came very close to the same fate as that of our neighbors here.” From 1940-1942, Morocco was occupied by the pro-Nazi Vichy French regime, and Jews were subject to anti-Jewish legislation.