Djerba

GENEVA — Almost 100 Egyptians have arrived in Italy in two boats, UN officials said Wednesday, as fears rose about a wave of people trying to reach…

The head of the Tunisian Jewish community, Roger Bismuth, has requested from Tunisia's Prime Minister Mohammed Ghanoucci for better security for his…

A Tunisian Jewish leader on Tuesday said that the burning of a building that served as a synagogue in the South of the country was not an attack on…

The violent protests that have shaken Tunisia over the past few days calmed down on Tuesday – although the political situation in the Mediterranean…

The mass protests which have shaken Tunisia over the weekend and caused longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee have so far not directly…

Rebel Shas MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem is a breath of fresh air in a world of haredi politics characterized by monolithic opinion and blind subservience.…

Tradition claims that  Jews have lived  on the Island of Djerba since the fall of the Second Temple( 70 C.E). Another, more popular tradition argues…

‘We realized that we had to make a movie about the movie star,” says Goel Pinto, the director of the documentary One of Seven, which airs on…

On Friday October 3, 1980, the eve of Succot, a motorbike bomb exploded outside the Copernic Synagogue in Paris. Had it detonated half an hour later,…

Antimacassars on the sofas, lace doilies under the ornaments, a profusion of glass storage jars in the kitchen and a hamsa collection warding off…

My mother says the Cuban missile crisis almost passed her by as she was busy looking after my newborn brother. My strongest memory of September 11,…

Symbolism, rather than action, dominated the General Assembly (GA) of the Jewish Federations of North America. Its new logo, new name and new…

No one told Nomi Stone that girls are not supposed to go by themselves to Djerba. Stone, an American poet and the daughter of a Reform rabbi, wasn't…

This Hebrew month of Kislev, the season of Hanukka, began with a call-up for candlelighters. Last Friday, the first day of Kislev, the words of…

When in December 2007 an American citizen went on television to tear up his United States passport, one was reminded of the anti-war movement of the…

A man on a donkey shuffles by, collecting trash in the midday heat. Merchants hawk their wares in French and Arabic from stalls lining the…

An armed group that clashed with Tunisian security forces was made up of hardened Islamic extremists apparently preparing to attack tourist sites in…

Spain's National Court on Wednesday handed down prison sentences of five years each to a Spaniard and a Pakistani for collaborating in the suicide…

Before finally settling down in Herzliya, Eve had traveled the world with her husband and acquired an astonishing collection of exotic artifacts.…

Tunis, Tunisia - Patrick Sebag, the owner of the hottest disco-bar in the capital, a pig-farm and a distillery, makes for a peculiar figure in a…