Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the south-east coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilisations, ...

(JTA) — The day after a gunman killed four people outside an ancient place of Jewish worship on the Tunisian island of Djerba, men gathered in the same synagogue not to mourn, but to celebrate. They ...

DJERBA, Tunisia — Diplomats from the United States and France visited the Ghriba synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island on Sunday to commemorate the victims of a deadly attack there last year, as ...

You’ve sunbathed in Cyprus, partied in Ibiza and admired the breathtaking sunsets in Santorini. And now, there’s another Mediterranean island to add to your holiday hit list. Djerba, an island ...

At least five people were killed in a shooting attack near a synagogue in Tunisia, Tunisian state news agency TAP reported on Wednesday, citing the country’s interior ministry. The attack, which took ...

In one of the last Jewish enclaves in the Arab world, families are leaving as tourism declines and security threats intensify Cracked tombstones litter the cemetery behind Djerba’s Great Synagogue, ...

Jewish visitors light candles at the ancient Ghriba synagogue in May 2019. Mohamed Messara/EPA Many hundreds of years ago on the small Tunisian island of Djerba, a poor young Jewish woman called ...

Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the southeast coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilizations, ...