Morocco

"The worst insult that a Moroccan could possibly offer was to treat someone as a Jew . . . ."

-- Moroccan writer Said Ghallab, 1965 in Les Temps Modernes

The Jews of Morocco have maintained their faith for more than two thousand years, surviving massacres, political and geographic segregation and continual legal status as second-class citizens. They have remained true to their religion through Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish and Vichy-French persecution. Even today, though much of the community has emigrated to Israel, Europe and the United States, its remaining members are confident, prepared to maintain their faith in the face of covert threats like assimilation, secularization and Westernization. 

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