Posts Tagged ‘Rabbi Chaim Pinto Synagogue’

Remembering Jewish Essaouira, Heritage Sites & Synagogues

Morocco Travel

              Essaouira owes much of its past, present and future to its situation on a bay sheltered from the fierce trade winds of the Atlantic Ocean by an archipelago of small, rocky islands. Towards the end of the 18th century, Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben…

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Essaouira’s Jewish Heritage, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Travel

In the new Moroccan constitution adopted in 2011 in the context of the Arab Spring , His Majesty King Mohammed VI reaffirmed the “Hebrew distinctive characteristic” of Morocco as ” one of the age-old pieces ” of “its national identity”” and he called for “the restoration of all the Jewish…

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