In addition to highlighting Libyan cuisine, Mahlof said he’s on a mission to prove how accessible kosher cooking can be. Even though the show was filmed in rural Caroline County, Virginia ...

Just as we say when we touch the mezuzah and as we saw on the threshold of the Great Synagogue in Rome, “Blessed are you in ...

Jewish objects less than 250 years old are not included in the agreement, which bars certain Libyan artifacts from entering the U.S.

Last week, according to the Jewish News, 16 marble plaques were unveiled in the Jewish section of Rome’s Prima Porta Cemetery, bearing 1,800 names of Libyan Jews known to have been buried in Libya.

Crowd Forces Libyan Jew Out Of Synagogue The last remaining members of the Jewish community in Libya were driven out more than 40 years ago. Despite this, David Gerbi came back to Libya to help ...

JTA — Gina Waldman was forced to flee her native Libya in 1967 as anti-Jewish mobs took to the streets of Tripoli, burning down her father’s warehouse. Waldman, like thousands of other Libyan ...

The return of Libyan Jews is in the country’s national strategic and security interest. Libya needs her Jewish citizens as much as they need her.

When Shalom Saada Saar was visiting Italy back in 2006, he yearned for the food of his childhood in Benghazi, Libya.. In Rome, he met Hamos Guetta, a fixture in the city’s Libyan Jewish ...

A Libyan Jewish man who returned from exile to try to restore Tripoli's main synagogue has been blocked from the building a day after knocking down the wall in front of its entrance.

Many in the Libyan-Jewish diaspora know that even if they return to Libya some day, they would never again be able to visit the graves of their parents, grandparents or other loved ones who lived in ...

Serves 6. This Libyan Jewish spread, called merduma, is sweet, spicy, and jammy, similar to Moroccan matbucha, a cooked tomato condiment, writes Leah Koenig in "Portico: Cooking and Feasting in ...

Last week, according to the Jewish News, 16 marble plaques were unveiled in the Jewish section of Rome’s Prima Porta Cemetery, bearing 1,800 names of Libyan Jews known to have been buried in Libya.