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Morocco

David Gajer (left) and Eva Orbuch (second from right) about to depart a supermarket with their Moroccan friends in a van laden with earthquake aid supplies. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inOpinion

We were visiting Morocco when the earthquake hit. Here’s what we saw and how you can help.

by Eva Orbuch and David Gajer September 20, 2023September 21, 2023

We were several months into our honeymoon, a nine-month voyage around the world. On Sept. 8, we were having a wonderful evening in Essaouira, a seaside city in southern Morocco, […]

For the first time ever, Moroccan etrogs flew direct from Casablanca to Israel in 2022. (Photo/Royal Air Maroc plane via Robert Smith-MI News-NurPhoto via Getty Images; collage by JTA)
Posted inWorld

This Sukkot, peace and Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming

by David I. Klein and JTA October 11, 2022
Six men, some in suits and some in Arab dress, sit at a round table
Posted inNews

‘Negev Summit’ to become regular event for Israeli and Arab parties to the Abraham Accords

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 28, 2022
Tal Kelman (left) head of the Strategic Division of the IDF Planning Directorate, meets with Belkhir El Farouk, Inspector General of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in Rabat, March 25, 2022. (Photo/IDF)
Posted inNews

Israel to convene leaders from Abraham Accords nations, in a historic summit

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 25, 2022
(From left) Rabbi Jill Perlman leads a conversation with Hayvi Bouzo, Omar Al Busaidy, Fatema Al Harbi, Dan Feferman and Chama Mechtaly of the NGO Sharaka at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette on Nov. 8, 2021. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

Arab and Israeli delegates tout Abraham Accords on Bay Area visit

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman November 9, 2021November 10, 2021
Rabbi Levi Duchman talks with Sulaiman Qasim Al-Hammadi at a symbolic Passover ceremony at a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea DiCenzo-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

The Abraham Accords just turned 1. Here’s how each of the agreements are holding up.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 16, 2021
Tamar Bloch in the Beit Dakira museum, part of a JIMENA-sponsored virtual trip to Morocco.
(Screenshot/JIMENA)
Posted inTravel

Cure your travel blues with virtual trips to Morocco, Tunisia and beyond

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 27, 2021April 28, 2021
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

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 15, 2021March 15, 2021
Sudan's Sovereign Council chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks in the capital Khartoum, Sept. 26, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Ashraf Shazly-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Sudan quietly joins Israel’s treaty with Arab states

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA January 7, 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

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