DJERBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Under tight security at Africa's oldest synagogue, Jewish pilgrims on Wednesday staged their biggest religious ceremony in Tunisia since a 2011 revolution undermined ...

The Holocaust is widely remembered as a tragedy that devastated Europe's Jewish communities. But its impact extended far beyond the continent's borders. Nazis persecution and antisemitic policies had ...

Jewish leaders from nine southern African nations met World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder in a landmark gathering for the mostly small and isolated communities. Jews from tiny communities in ...

ASHKELON, Israel (AP) – Israel is closing the books on a rare millennia-old Jewish tradition. Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia’s ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of ...

Jews in Africa in classical antiquity -- Jews and Muslims in North Africa to the seventeenth century -- Jews and Conversos in the formative years of the west and central African Atlantic slave trade - ...

Jewish South African researcher and writer Steven Gruzd was abducted and murdered in Johannesburg in what authorities described as an “express kidnapping,” police said on Sunday. Gruzd, 55, a senior ...

Rethinking Jewish culture and society in North Africa / Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter -- Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Morocco / Mohammed Kenbib -- Place names in western ...