Libyan Omar Aboud, from the ancient Amazigh (Berber) tribe, stands inside one of the surviving synagogues in the Berber village of Yafran in western Libya on July 13. For centuries, Jews lived among ...

An otherwise delightful show of some of the traditional weavings and jewelry of Berber tribes, now at Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Arts, pays scant attention to the historic links between the Berbers ...

Berber Jews belonged to their tribes in this subordinate way. In the film, Hachkar walks among the ruins of the abandoned Jewish quarter of a small Berber town as an elderly man describes the close ...

The interior of the El Ghriba synagogue -- the oldest synagogue in North Africa -- on the Tunisian island of Djerba in 2009. My North African Jewish Berber grandparents came from Djerba, Tunisia, to ...

Last time R. Francis Nataf shared this space with me, I pointed out the freedom of yovel allows Jews to return to ancestral lands and reunite with family, as opposed to the undefined freedom many of ...