Visiting Jewish Morocco
To plan your visit to Jewish Morocco, you need recent information on logistics, cultural etiquette, security concerns, Jewish heritage tour guides, and Jewish heritage tours. Here is where you can start your planning.
Jews in Moroccan History – Visiting Jewish Morocco
Jews have lived in Morocco for over two thousand years. The first evidence of Jewish settlement dates from the second century CE. Over the millennia, Jews have lived as a minority among Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Amazigh peoples, Arabs, French and Spanish.
Casablanca - Visiting Jewish Morocco
The 2,000 Casablancan Jews live outside the mellah in the European city, where they worship in more than a dozen synagogues, eat in kosher restaurants, entertain themselves in community centers, and attend Jewish schools and social service centers.
About Moroccan Jews – Visiting Jewish Morocco
Here is your key to understanding Moroccan Jewish life, culture, history, relations with other Moroccans and emigration as well as the lives of Moroccan Jews around the world. Map of Moroccan Jewish Communities in the Twentieth Century
Moroccan Jewish Culture – Visiting Jewish Morocco
It is important for visitors to appreciate how Moroccan Jews express their own identity through their culture. The first Jews came to Morocco with Phoenician traders almost 2,500 years ago, bringing with them the culture of the Hebrew people after the …
Moroccan Jewish Cuisine – Visiting Jewish Morocco
Moroccan Jewish cuisine marries Jewish religious restrictions (kashrut) and norms with the cuisine of each of the regions where Moroccan Jews lived. Each local cuisine style in Morocco is unique, based on the peoples and cultures that have lived there over the centuries.
Jewish Heritage Tour Guides – Visiting Jewish Morocco
Visitors on Jewish-themed trips to Morocco will be guided by these specialists. Individual travelers may wish to reach out to Raphy or Youssef to see if they are available or can recommend other guides.
Moroccan Jewish Language – Visiting Jewish Morocco
In 2020, the remaining Jews in Morocco are typically bilingual, speaking French or Spanish and Moroccan Arabic. Tens of thousands Jews in Israel speak Moroccan Judeo-Arabic, and some of their children are seeking to learn it as part of their effort to …
Jewish Heritage Tours - Visiting Jewish Morocco
Morocco Jewish Heritage Tour of Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest New Jersey. From https://www.jfedgmw.org/lions-experienced-exotic-mission-to-morocco. Travelers can select from an increasing variety of Jewish heritage tours of Morocco.
Rabat - Visiting Jewish Morocco
Rabat. Just outside the city walls of Rabat is another walled city, the Chellah, where Jews are believed to have lived during the time of the Phoenicians. Rabat’s Archeological Museum has a strong focus on the Roman town of Volubilis and displays a Jewish lamp found at the site.