Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish worshippers light candles inside the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia May 2, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah By Tarek Amara ...

Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the southeast coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilizations, ...

(JTA) — Tunisia will seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, the site of an annual Jewish pilgrimage. Tunisia’s culture minister, Mohamed Zine El-Abidine, made the announcement on ...

DJERBA, Tunisia — The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the 26-century-old El-Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia drew a modest but notable return of international visitors this year, worshipping together under ...

DJERBA, Tunisia (JTA) — Anticipating the sun’s rapid ascent in the African skies, six barefoot men align themselves early in the morning in a drafty corridor of the still-cool interior of Africa’s ...

At least five people were killed in a shooting attack near a synagogue in Tunisia, Tunisian state news agency TAP reported on Wednesday, citing the country’s interior ministry. The attack, which took ...

DJERBA, Tunisia—By the hundreds, they gathered for a pre-wedding party on a resort island in Tunisia. Here, in the heart of the Muslim world, the crowds were speaking Arabic. The band was Arab too, ...

Jewish visitors light candles at the ancient Ghriba synagogue in May 2019. Mohamed Messara/EPA Many hundreds of years ago on the small Tunisian island of Djerba, a poor young Jewish woman called ...

Djerba, Tunisia --Cracked tombstones litter the perimeter of the cemetery behind the Great Synagogue that anchors this tiny Tunisian Jewish community, but it was not vandals who broke them. Hundreds ...

Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the south-east coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilisations, ...