Jewish heritage travel

Arrival at Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport. Dinner at Kosher Restaurant in Casablanca. Visit Temple Beth-El, the Jewish Synagogue in Casablanca. Beth-El, is considered the centerpiece of a once vibrant Jewish community. Its stained glass windows and other artistic elements, is what attracts tourists to this synagogue. Option to visit Temple Em Habanim and Neve Chalom as time allows.

Visit the Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca. The Jewish Museum in Casablanca covers an area of 700 square meters, is the first of its kind in the Arab world. The Museum of Moroccan Judaism of Casablanca is a museum of history and ethnography, created by the Jewish Community of Casablanca in 1997 with the support of the Foundation of Jewish-Moroccan Cultural Heritage. The Jewish Museum in Casablanca is tucked into a residential neighborhood and holds a treasure trove with it being the Arab region’s only Jewish Museum. It uses world-class standards of conservation for its national and international collections. The Museum of Moroccan Judaism presents religious, ethnographic and artistic objects that demonstrate the history, religion, traditions and daily life of Jews in the context of Moroccan civilization.

The journey commences through the famous routes of the Kasbah, and enters the impressive Todgha Valley in the afternoon.

Visit Casablanca’s Jewish Cemetery, Mellah & Synagogues:

Visit Rabat, and then take the road to visit Meknes and the Roman Ruins of Volubilis.

Visit Casablanca’s Jewish Cemetery, Mellah & Synagogues

Visit Meknes Historic Sites in the Afternoon:

Talmud Torah Syngagoue

Jewish Quarter & Cemetery

Royal Stables & Agdal Reservoir

Musée Dar Jamaï, Museum

Bou Inania Medersa

Grand Gate

Old Medina

Bab El-Khemis

17th Century Kasbah

During this guided historical tour of UNESCO Fes you will visit the Jewish Heritage Sites and Cultural Sites of Fes that combine site seeing at Synagogues, Universities, Mosques, Cemeteries, the Mellah along with gardens and palaces. Your guide will offer a connective link between Muslim and Jewish Morocco.

Old Medina Muslim Sites & Shopping in Fes:

University of Al-Karaouine

Zaouia Moulay Idriss II

Dar Batha 

Weavers Cooperative

Visit Seffrou, the capital of cherries. Sefrou, south of Fes, was known as Little Jerusalem due to its high percentage of Jews and its well-developed religious life. Upon Morocco's independence, a rabbi from Sefrou was elected to Parliament. Sefrou's mellah makes up half of the old city. En route to Sefrou make a short stop to visit Bhalil a cemetery Sefrou was once a major center for Morocco's Jews and its walled white pedestrian medina is still characterized by their houses with wooden balconies. A good example of interfaith dialogue in Morocco can be witnessed in the city of Sefrou. In Sefrou lived Muslims and Jews in good harmony door to door and practiced their religious rituals in unison.

Take the road to Marrakech. En route stop to see the view of Ifrane University and go for a short walk around the garden. Ifrane is nick named “Little Switzerland” of Morocco for its architecture, cedar forest and winter ski resort options. Developed by the French during the protectorate era for their administration due to its Alpine climat, this Moroccan town has a remarkable European style, as if it were an Alpine village. Because of its elevation, the town experiences snow during the winter months and a cool climate during the summer. Enjoy coffee, tea and pastries in Ifrane at an outdoor cafe. Make a short stop in Zaouia Cheikh. This is one of the 30 damns that are scheduled to be built in Morocco by 2030. The idea originating with Hassan II to build one dam a year to irrigate the country is being carried on by the current King Mohammed VI. Lunch at Hotel Paris in Beni Mellal. Overnight at a Boutique Hotel or Riad in Marrakech.

Visit Marrakech’s Gardens, Palaces, and Jewish Heritage Sites.

The Majorelle Gardens & Berber Museum

The Old Spice Market 

The Jewish Mellah

El Bahia Palace 

Marrakech Lazama Synagogue in the old medina 

Rabbi Hanania Hacohen Cemetery

The Saadian Tombs

The Majorelle Gardens & Berber Museum

Built in 1929 this famous historical landmark hotel and gardens in the center of Marrakech is cared for by 40 gardeners who two times a year plant 60,000 annuals to enhance the grounds as well as maintain the immaculately mowed grass under the citrus and olive orchards, desert garden, rose garden and tropical garden as well as the many fountains. The 200 year-old avenue of olive trees leads one to the garden pavilion where you can soak in the peace and solitude with a cup of Moroccan mint tea.

Abderrazzak Benchaabane’s Palmeraie Gardens & Museum

Abderrazzak Benchaabane is a Marrakech legend. Quiet and soft spoken, this renowned Garden Designer, Ethno botanist, Perfumer, Teacher, Photographer, Writer and publisher Within the converted stables and piste buildings on the property Benchaabane houses his private collection of Moroccan modern and contemporary art.