#RL Morocco

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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work ☁️ #style #losangeles #miami #chicago #paris #usa #morocco #casablanca #maroc #amsterdam #photooftheday #memories #like4like #likeforlike #follow4follow #followforfollow #instagram #instagood #Marrakesh #september #casa #imagine #base #sunset #RL (at Casablanca, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfUDak4oosuBDJ5I-gM39jlqmEXul1HBSdhZxo0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Moroccan architecture dates from 110 BCE with the massive pisé (mud brick) buildings. The architecture has been influenced by Islamization during the Idrisid dynasty, Moorish exiles from Spain, and also by France who occupied Morocco in 1912. Morocco is in Northern-Africa bordering the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Morocco is a pretty incredible country to explore. Now, I know I say that to lots of places but Morocco ----> variety of climas, Clothes ,traditions... 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 📧 Book your moroccan tours here: 🚩 Www.morocco-group-tours.com 📧groupberberway@gmail.com 📲 +212633987288 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 CREDIT 👇 Use the tag and get featured! Tag us @morocco_group_tours and use #moroccogrouptours Like what you see? FOLLOWG👉 Me 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 #Morocco #Maroc #Marokko #Marruecos #Marrocos #摩洛哥 #марокко #מרוקו #moroccotrip #travelmorocco #morocco #inmorocco  #simplymorocco #visitmorocco #moroccanstyle #discovermorocco #moroccovacations #المغرب #travelphoto #travelpic #travelife #travelingram #مراكش #travelbug  #worldplaces #earthpix (at Morocco, North Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcocFGdt-rL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[greenyvertekins]

Deneb, Aries, Andromeda and Supernova

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country?

Yep. I’ve been to Morocco (Twice), Egypt (Twice), Majorca, Spain, Tenerife, France, Turkey (Three times) and Germany.

Aries: Favourite movie?

Lately, I’ve been lovin’ the Sonic Movie especially.

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social?

Not in the slightest. I am very cloistered and don’t really associate with people outside the family. I have very close RL friends but we rarely meet-up.

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die?

Win the Euromillions. Not likely given I hardly ever get a ticket.

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It's been a while soo, how's life?? Your summer going alright? Dying from heat? Have you done anything exciting this summer??

heyo~ hahaha, yeah, i haven’t been posting as much for a while; mix of a little writer’s block and RL stuff, but I’m back on track now with a new and fun story~ thanks for asking tho well, the heat is killing me (which is ridiculous because, ya know, i grew up on a tropical island but anyway) and my summer has consisted mainly of writing and moving XD. and yep, a family trip to morocco because it’s the last summer we’ll spend together for a while, so that was great ^^

now it’s back to avoiding the heat by staying inside and writing lmao

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Tunisia’s last Jewish community dream of a move to Israel ‘en masse’

In one of the last Jewish enclaves in the Arab world, families are leaving as tourism declines and security threats intensify

Cracked tombstones litter the cemetery behind Djerbas Great Synagogue, but it was not vandals who broke them.

Hundreds of Jewish families have moved away from this Tunisian island community in the past five decades, digging up their relatives remains to take with them and leaving only the slabs of marble behind.

There are bones that are 80, 90 years old. When you lift them up, they can break, says Yossif Sabbagh, a 42-year-old local who helps exhume around a dozen bodies each year for transport to Israel, where the majority of Tunisian-born Jews have moved.

This flight of the dead foreshadows a bleak future for the Jews of Djerba, who trace their arrival on this North African island to more than two millennia ago, after the sacking of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BC.

They were once the traditional, observant branch of a vibrant Jewish community that numbered 100,000 across Tunisia. But the 1,100 Jews in Djerba are nearly all that are left after most others fled persecution between the 40s and 60s.

Most of the community has moved to Israel, where as Jews they are entitled to automatic citizenship, but their exodus could also bring an end to one of the last Jewish societies in the Arab world.

But there is new life in Djerba, too about 30 births a year, according to Tunisias chief rabbi and Djerba resident, Haim Bittan.In comparison, the community in Morocco the only one in the Arab world that is larger than Tunisias is mostly elderly. The Egyptian, Lebanese, and Syrian communities have dwindled to a few dozen, and Jews are almost gone entirely from Libya and Algeria.

Broken headstones at the cemetery behind Djerbas Great Synagogue. Photograph: Heidi Levine/RFE/RL

In late May, crowds filled the ornate white-and-blue tiled Ghriba synagogue in Hara Sghira, the smaller of two Jewish enclaves in Djerba, as part of the annual pilgrimage that has long attracted outsiders to the island.

Pilgrims lit candles in the sanctuary and placed eggs covered with handwritten wishes in a cave dug into the synagogues floor. Across a cobbled street, revellers sang songs, ate couscous with fish, and drank fig brandy and beer in a sunny courtyard strung with red Tunisian flags.

The event, marking the Lag BaOmer feast which honours the second-century Jewish mystic Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, was clearly a point of local pride.

Back in 2011 the event was cancelled amid the tumult of the Tunisian revolution that ousted dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, who largely protected the countrys Jews. It was later restored and the countrys current government prizes the community as a symbol of stability. But three major terrorist attacks since the beginning of 2015, along with an infiltration by the extremist group Islamic State (Isis) just an hours drive south of Djerba, have raised serious security concerns.

This years festival took place under intense security, including checkpoints overseen by special forces and a military truck mounted with a heavy automatic weapon.

On the first day of the pilgrimage, Abdelfattah Mourou, deputy speaker of parliament and vice president of the moderate Islamic Ennahda party, embraced rabbi Bittan outside the Ghriba synagogue.

Tunisia protects its Jews, Mourou said. What leads to radicalism is having only one culture. Having many cultures allows us to accept one another.

Tunisia protects its Jews said Abdelfattah Mourou, Tunusias deputy speaker of parliament, at the event. Photograph: Heidi Levine/RFE/RL

The Israeli government was not convinced by the increased security: in the weeks before the Ghriba festival it issued a travel advisory warning its citizens to avoid Tunisia. But Perez Trabelsi, the festivals 74-year-old president, pointed out that Israel has issued the same warning each year since the revolution.

Theres really no danger, he said. We have the freedom to leave but we are not going anywhere.

A different world

Since 2011, Rabbi Bittan estimates that 30 Jews have left Djerba, and many more are considering moving to Israel, but its not for fear of attack from Islamic extremists, as many suggest.

For Djerbas Jewish community, its about opportunity. Shiran Trabelsi, 23, teaches fourth grade in Hara Kebira, the larger of the two Jewish enclaves. She remembers visiting her grandparents in the Israeli seaside city of Ashkelon in 2006. I was in a different world, she says. Over there theres trees and everything is blossoming and green and clean. When I got back here, I felt like theres no colour in the city.

Trabelsi said the Jews of Djerba should move to Israel en masse although she concedes she would not move without her parents or a husband.

Kindergarten teacher Yiska Mamou, 24, studied economics in public school but, like most Jews in Djerba, did not go on to higher education. She, too, wants to move to Israel, because after work theres nothing to do here but go home and clean.

Its a lament echoed by many young Jewish women, whose presence is key to the communitys survival but who pine for Israels relative openness.

A woman leaves eggs inscribed with messages in a cave beneath the synagogue. Photograph: Heidi Levine/RFE/RL

Young men, too, dream of moving, but with an eye on economic security. Like many Jewish men in Djerba, Yoni Haddad is involved in the jewellery trade. The community is known for its silver filigree and elaborate, gold-plated wedding headdresses and necklaces that are popular with Muslim brides, a craft that has been handed down from generation to generation.

But in recent months Jewish and Muslim shopkeepers alike have suffered heavy losses as tourists abandon Tunisia after Isis-affiliated gunmen attacked a beach hotel in Sousse in the summer of 2015, killing 38 people, mostly British tourists.

For Yigal Palmor, spokesman of the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organisation that promotes immigration to Israel, its this uncertainty, both economic and political, that makes moving to Israel more attractive. There is very little future for any Jewish community in any Arab country unless things change dramatically. Even if they are tolerated, I dont believe they have a real future there, he says.

For now, Djerbas Jews are grooming the next generation for a split identity. On a Thursday afternoon, Elinor Haddad, 16, mops the kitchen of her family home in preparation for the weekend. Her older brother has just returned from a sponsored trip to Israel, and Elinor wears a bracelet he bought her as a gift. She would not be making the same trip, she said, because Rabbi Bittan ruled against girls travelling alone.

To avoid assimilation into Tunisian society, Haddads girls-only high school teaches an Israeli curriculum. Haddad speaks fluent Hebrew along with Arabic. Israeli mores have seeped into home life as well. Friday night dinner at Haddads house would be the traditional Tunisian Jewish meal of couscous, but Thursdays lunch was chicken schnitzel a common Israeli meal imported by European Jewish immigrants.

On Thursday night, Elinor giggles with friends in the Ghriba synagogues anteroom while pilgrims passed by. Ordinarily, she said, she sits with friends behind closed doors. The pilgrimage is a chance to see and be seen, she said. If I had the opportunity to move to Israel I would go, Haddad says. But its ok here too.

At the cemetery, Sabbagh said he had also considered moving to Israel, but hesitated because of the higher cost of living. When his father died, Sabbagh and his siblings flew the body to Israel and buried him in Jerusalem. But for the older tombs, he says. I think the bones should stay in their graves.

A version of this article first appeared on RFE/RL

Source: http://allofbeer.com/tunisias-last-jewish-community-dream-of-a-move-to-israel-en-masse/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/tunisias-last-jewish-community-dream-of-a-move-to-israel-en-masse/

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