The Ghriba pilgrimage also saw a suicide bombing in 2002 that killed 21 people and was claimed by Al-Qaeda. The pilgrimage is at the heart of Jewish tradition in Tunisia, where only about 1,500 ...

The shooting at the synagogue is the deadliest attack on the holy site in more than 20 years and brought tragedy to a public celebration of Jewish life at Africa’s oldest Jewish house of worship.

UMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flocked to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year Sunday, ignoring international travel warnings as Russia struck more targets from ...

The annual Jewish pilgrimage on Tunisia’s island of Djerba began Friday with low turnout amid heightened security concerns after a deadly attack last year and as the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza.

He is in Uman, a city in central Ukraine that annually hosts tens of thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This year some 32,000 arrived – even though the ...

(RNS) — The attack came as thousands of Jews had traveled to the island of Djerba for an annual pilgrimage to El Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa. (RNS) — A Tunisian naval officer opened ...

A French Jewish man prays inside the historic Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba — FETHI BELAID Only about 30 people turned up Thursday at this year's Jewish pilgrimage on Tunisia's ...

Like thousands of other pilgrims, Rony Eli-Ya travelled from his home in Israel to the Ukrainian city of Uman this week for Rosh Hashanah, one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar ...

Prayer chants and the sounding of ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new year in Ukraine, despite the war against Russia.

UMAN, Ukraine — Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the ...

Thousands of Jewish pilgrims returning to Israel from Uman via Romania left mounds of garbage in the vicinity of the airport before flying home, raising the ire of local authorities, Hebrew media ...

His important article, co-written with Joseph Katz, “The Islamic Jewish Calendar – How the Pilgrimage of the 9th of Av became the Hajj of the 9th of Dhu’al-Hijjah,” is available online in ...