{"id":764,"date":"2023-05-23T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=764"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:24:08","slug":"rabbis-from-3-continents-gather-in-morocco-for-jewish-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/rabbis-from-3-continents-gather-in-morocco-for-jewish-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbis from 3 continents gather in Morocco for Jewish conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of rabbinic families affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement gathered in Casablanca, Morocco, last week for a conference aimed at Chabad leaders serving small Jewish communities across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

They came from 40 different countries, some making the short hop from mainland Spain or its Canary Islands, others coming from as far as Zambia.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA criteria to come to participate in this conference was to come from a community where you\u2019ve had to schlep kosher food in a suitcase,\u201d Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, a Chabad rabbi based in Istanbul and the director of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, joked to Religion News Service.<\/p>\n

The three-day event in the medieval city of Fez began on 16 May and saw around 60 Chabad rabbis and their families, totaling about 200 people from 40 countries across the MENA and Europe.<\/p>\n

The hosting of the event, which also marked the 73rd anniversary of the launch of the Chabad’s emissary project in the North African kingdom was also symbolic in once being home to the 12th century Jewish physician and scholar Maimonides, considered one of the greatest Torah scholars of Islamic Spain.<\/p>\n

Attendees were there to celebrate the conclusion of the last chapter of Maimonides’s magnum opus, Mishneh Torah, whose study cycle had been completed around the world in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

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Historic Conference in Morocco Draws Rabbis From Africa, Middle East, Europe
Emissaries from 40 countries gatherhttps:\/\/t.co\/GfphFPSTve<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uLzqTVWurH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Chabad.org (@Chabad) May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n