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Moroccan Jews

Mimouna celebration
Posted inPassover

Celebrate Passover’s end with Mimouna events across the Bay Area

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight April 7, 2026April 7, 2026

For some, Passover celebrations start and end with the seder.  For Jews of Moroccan descent, the festival concludes on a high note with a celebration called Mimouna, which begins at […]

A scene from "Seven Blessings," Israel's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Posted inFilm

Israel’s Oscar submission is a vibrant story of family, betrayal and forgiveness

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar November 2, 2023November 2, 2023
Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal.
Posted inCulture

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 15, 2021March 15, 2021
The lamps and chandeliers at Synagogue Roben Bensadoun in the Moroccan city of Fez are relics from old synagogues in the city's Jewish quarter, or mellah. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inNews

Israel and Morocco to establish diplomatic ties, Trump announces

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
The desert at sunset in Rissani, Morocco. (SUE BARNETT)
Posted inTravel

After mass exodus, Morocco celebrates its Jewish heritage

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 6, 2020March 6, 2020
Ophir Haberer explains the dishes before everyone eats. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inColumns

Moishe House goes Moroccan with matbucha and other favorites

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 22, 2018May 22, 2018
Ricki Alon cherishes Israel as a "Safe Haven" for all Jews — such as these immigrant children, seen here after arriving in Israel on a flight from Ethiopia, Oct. 29, 2012. (Photo/JTA-Uriel Sinai-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael at 70

What Israel means to me: safe haven

Ricki Alon by Ricki Alon April 9, 2018April 9, 2018
Posted inCulture

Moroccan salads fit for a king — seasonal, fresh, tangy

Shelly Butcher by Shelly Butcher October 29, 2017October 31, 2017

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