Jimmy Bitton, at The Blogs

Apr 12, 2023, 9:18 PM

Mimouna, when Jews and Arabs celebrate together

Israelis at a Mimuna celebrations in the city of Beit Shemesh on April 7, 2018. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

The end-of-Passover fete reflects a cultural symbiosis unique to Morocco, where Jews were more welcome than elsewhere

Mar 31, 2023, 11:50 PM

In his book The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, William James, the greatest American philosopher and leading thinker of the late nineteenth century suggests that something is true only insofar as it works. In light...

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Jimmy Bitton, B.Ed., M.A. teachers Jewish history at the Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He is a published writer in Israel, Canada, the United States and Italy.