Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Video of Jews Dancing at Casablanca Airport Goes viral

Morocoworldnews Rabat – In a scene that speaks volumes of Morocco’s openness, tolerance, cross-cultural understanding and peace in face of difference, a group of Jews arrive at Casablanca Mohammed VI airport singing and dancing their ritualistic Talmudic dance as an expression of their gratitude for Morocco.

The scene, which can rarely happen across the Middle East and North Africa except in Morocco, features a group of Jews at the airport’s checkpoint dancing and singing in very apparent joy, some wearing Moroccan traditional clothes but many others wearing their full Jewish attire such as the kippah, the black hat and suit, etc. What was remarkably interesting on the faces of Morocco’s guests is the sense of security and comfort they expressed through dancing and through their smiling faces while being checked. Morocco has admitted its cultural diversity including its Jewish influence in the 2011 constitution.



Statistics say that around 250,000 Jews lived in Morocco in the 1940s. Currently, approximately 2500 Jews live in Morocco after the massive migration following the Operation Yachin between 1961 and 1964.

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  1. "ritualistic Talmudic dance" lol!

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  2. Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura
    in a letter to his father in year 1488 August 15:


    “Jews in Muslim lands make themselves appear poor.

    They go about like an impoverished, despised people,
    with their heads bowed before Muslims.”

    CHRONOLOGY:
    Rabbi Ovadiah ben Abraham of Bartenura was born around 1445 CE in Bertinoro, Italy, and died around 1515 CE in Jerusalem. He wrote a famous commentary on the Mishnah.

    SOURCE:
    Pathway to Jerusalem: the Travel Letters of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura, written between 1488 and 1490 during his journey to the Holy Land (page 40) translated by Yaakov Dovid Shulman, year 1992 CE, 93 pages, CIS Publishers, Lakewood, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56062-130-3

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