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Apr 9, 2026, 10:00 PM

Mimouna and the Myth of Jewish-Arab Coexistence

I first wrote about Mimouna in 2016, for the Canadian Jewish News. I described the cultural symbiosis between Jews and Arabs in Morocco. I meant every word. I return to the subject every few years because the holiday keeps...

Apr 17, 2025, 6:20 PM

Mimouna After October 7: What a Moroccan-Jewish Festival Can Teach Us About Coexistence

Jimmy Bitton celebrates Mimouna at Sephardic Kehila Centre in Canada.

Most people outside the Jewish world have rarely heard of Mimouna—and with good reason. This lesser-known, joyful festival, celebrated by Jews of Moroccan descent at the conclusion of Passover, traditionally sees doors flung open, tables laden with sweet pastries,...

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 6, 2025, 10:34 AM

The First but Not the Last Exodus

This Passover, for the umpteenth time, Jews will celebrate the Exodus from Egypt. Can the word exodus be pluralized? I ask because for Jews it was certainly the first, but unfortunately not the last. Expulsions. Pogroms. The heinous Holocaust. Jews...

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

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