Building The Jewish Moroccan Museum and Archive for Living Culture, Sedot Micah, Israel
Jewish Moroccan Video Archive at YouTube

Multi-lingual

Casablanca Jewish Community Centre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORwvz9diKyQ
Vow of silence at a Casablanca Synagogue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3XDb0Q6ZT0&feature=related
Casablanca Beth El Synagogue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQ7Ft4XX1w
Aging honorably in Casablanca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKiqEd8-lNI
Beth El Synagogue Casablanca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQ7Ft4XX1w
Religious Learning in Casablanca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKiqEd8-lNI

Fes Mellah Old Jewish Quarter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszNlm-taj4
The Last Jews of Fes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESOO8n4hiL4
The Fes Jewish Cemetery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHPGqUk4Kg
Kosher Chicken Slaughter At the Rambam Centre Fes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2KCr5rlfs&feature=related
Leather Making in Fes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-QyIG15wI

Building the Roof of the Jewish Moroccan Archive, Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ6RNhDEeV4 Multi-lingual November 2011
Sculpting the Gate of the Jewish Moroccan Museum and Archive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5A6EljmsYU October 2011
Painting the Mural of the Jewish Moroccan Museum and Archive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJko-g3Pn5E October 2011

Building the Museum, with background music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jZ6lSAqGeg November 2009
Building the Archive of the Museum Hebrew with English subtitles and abstract http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L06dvtIQS4 December 2009

Building a Mud Oven http://www.youtube.com/user/jmmasedotmicah#p/u
Sculpting with mud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icT6OkEdOUU
Ecological building with mud and tires http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4wHLzIltQ

Gates of Welcome, A painting project exhibited at Palais Glam Galas, Vienna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CP_RquaQo
Jewish Moroccan Contemporary Artists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZnMYuTS2g8
Eliany in a group exhibition at Chelsea Gallery, London, U.K see also http://andicouldntsay.coi.co.il/

Hebrew videos
Building the Museum, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azA-qyC8MHs January 2010
Building the Museum, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaGHS-HIBA November 2009

Building the Archive of the Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L06dvtIQS4 Hebrew with English subtitles and abstract December 2009

Ecological building with mud and tires in Hebrew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vpbIKnvIX8
Building a Mud Oven in Hebrew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zSqYFdgQQ
Sculpting with mud in Hebrew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgsYIrzp3Q

Francais
La construction du musée et archive du Judaisme Marocain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJnmmYEC4hU

Jewish Moroccan Video Archive at YouTube (key words in alphabetical order, more to come)

Art
Gates of Welcome, Eliany's painting project exhibited at Palais Glam Galas, Vienna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CP_RquaQo
Jewish Moroccan Contemporary Artists: Elbaz, BenHaim, Cohen Gan, Eliany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZnMYuTS2g8
Eliany in a group exhibit, Haela Artists Association, Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvf_hzvQJ8
Eroba Eroba, Une exposition d' Eliany a Vienne et a Paris, Revue de Philip Levy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTa9KjqgczE


Bar Mitzvah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cyuuxSi9cE
A Bar Mitzvah celebration of a Jewish Moroccan boy, a henna ceremony precedes the event is described in this video.

Beauty
Beautiful Jewish Moroccan girls in Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okP6tAKXheI
All the beautiful girls in this video are Israeli-Jewish of moroccan origin. The girls born and raised in Israel.


Books
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgzxZm8q4EQ
EmHabanim Sephardic Congregation showing its new library of very precious Sephardic books books.
Most books are are part of the Orot Institute Publications collection.

Cemetaries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=var5AysnCi8
Raphy Elmaleh, Morocco's only Jewish tour guide, explores a village in Tighedouine, located amidst the foothills of the Middle Atlas Mountains. See two abandoned Jewish cemeteries that were nearly built over by a European real estate company, tour a former Berber Jewish home, hear local Muslims' memories of their Jewish neighbors, and explore inside an abandoned olive press once used by Jews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=JxJGJsr4AEs
Jewish Moroccan Heritage in Marrakesh and Rabat (synagogues) and Fes (cemetery)

The Fes Jewish Cemetery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHPGqUk4Kg

Comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_8LQAog9w
A funny sketch on Moroccans at a synagogue

Communities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz1FX7r7UTk
Jewish life in Morocco in various communities and over time documented in photos. A Histography.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XcUJYBvQs
This video is a journey through the centuries of Moroccan Jews. Morocco once hosted a Jewish community of around 275,000. Today around 1,000 remain in the country. Jews of Moroccan heritage reside in Israel, France, Canada, Argentina, USA, Mexico, Brazil, among other countries...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVHTYWUvyU Mazagan or El Jadida
The Jewish community has for many centuries lived in harmony and friendship with its Muslim and Christian neighbours in this most beautiful land of Morocco has been reduced to a mere few thousand from the 450 000 souls. These precious photos of the City of ELJADIDA formerly known as Mazagan give a small glimpse of its former Jewish Community which no longer exists. Peace to all.

Settling Israel - The contribution of Moroccan Jews to the Development of Israel
http://www.akadem.org/sommaire/series/module_6220.php A lecture By Simon Skira, Secrétaire général de la Fédération des juifs du Maroc en France,
35 ans de vie sociale et éducative au Negev in Hebrew.

Casablanca Jewish Community Centre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORwvz9diKyQ

Casablanca Beth El Synagogue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQ7Ft4XX1w

Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXzymQR9HUw
Hasidut Habad in Morocco. Journalist Yehuda Ceitlin travles to Casablanca to find a shirinking Jewish Community in Morocco. It's remaining members have friends and family living abroad, but chooce to coexist with the North African Muslim population. People: Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, Reizel Raskin,
Language: Hebrew, Yiddish

Food

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAPh2__bd8 Mofleta
Preparing the mofleta pastry at the end of Passover, the eve of the Mimuna, a celebration unique to Moroccan Jewry, an expression of openness to nature and the world. See Mimuna in the holidays section below.

Holidays

Hanukah celebrated in Casablanca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E82rb2EP3c&feature=share
Moroccan Jews celebrate Hanukah in Toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKAEUyTCUI&feature=related
Hanukah singing Moroccan style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79N5dBRuyik&feature=related
Hanukah Donuts Jewish Moroccan style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwXWZ8sIEk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AchG5FUQo-s
Passover: Reading of the Haggadah wine blessing 'kiddush' by the Singer Jo Amar, who pioneered and introduced oriental music in Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0DJ8XOE6o
Passover: Mimuna a Jewish Moroccan celebration at the end of passover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81-geUQ-iw
Passover: Mimuna a Jewish Moroccan celebration at the end of passover.

http://lnk.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=797188
Dr Ygal Bin Nun claims that the Mimuna is an ancient pagan ritual aimed at appeasing an old jin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFRdS0jgEA
Shavuot: This is sung at the time of Petiḥat haHechal on the second day of Shavu'ot.
Sung by: Ribi Momy Assayag z"l

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYKeaB5kU4g
Tisha' beAv scroll reading by rabbi Meir Elazar Atia, with a painting slide show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpxAAI1ing
Selihot with images of leading saints and rabbis

Immigration

Museums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F6WB63Xso8
Musée du Judaïsme Marocain Moroccan Jewish Museum, Rabat, Morocco, French

http://www.judaisme-marocain.org/?sec=ccjm Paul Dahan `s link to the Jewish Moroccan Heritage Centre

Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG9JAcliOA Singer Samy Almagribi
Samy Almagribi (Salomon Amzalag) sings I shall never forget you (amri ma nensak) accompanied by the Andalusian Ensemble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8t5Ixvw5AE Music
Film written and directed by Asher Tlalim
The beauty of the music of the Moroccan Jews is its unique blend of Hebrew texts set to tunes borrowed from their Arab neighbors. This video was filmed on-location in Morocco and Israel in order to present the full flavor, feeling, and character of the poetry, messianic songs, and tunes that provide the foundation for authentic Moroccan Jewish music. Also featured in this unique musical extravaganza are Shlomo Bar and the Habrera Hativit Ensemble. ~ Kathryn Tamms, All Movie Guide


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Ti1QzqoEM Adone haselihot - A Day of Atonement chant or piyut
Sung by Avihu Medina, accompanied by a choir and an orchestra, photos of Jewish Moroccan scenes in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SjVRAIDbz4 Kol Nidre - A Day of Atonement chant or piyut
Eyal Bitton sings the beautiful & ancient Moroccan version of KOL NIDREI in a modern style. This haunting oath is sung on Yom Kippur by Jewish communities worldwide - Sephardi & Ashkenazi. Kol Nidré - version marocaine. Prière chantée la veille de Kippour. Harmonisation pour hazzan et chorale par soliste Eyal Bitton.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrlVq3gHcSs Rosh hashanna-New Year' s Piyut: Amonay Chama'ti..
Beautiful, pleading Sephardic High Holiday piyut recited on Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur before Amidah.
Tradtional Moroccan melody sung by Eyal Bitton.
Piyout sepharade chanté à Roche Hachana & Yom Kippour avant l'Amida. Air marocain. Soliste: Eyal Bitton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6dcb20dQA Piyut or sacred chanting
Leon Azancot, a wonderful 80 year old Tangerine Jew (he should live to 120), sang some piyyutim in Hebrew and explained them in Spanish at his insurance office over the Socco Grande (entrance to the souk) in Tangier, Morocco. Video by Vanessa Paloma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tLwuFFMIgg Wedding chant
Sung by Francoise Atlan during the Fes Festival of Sacred world music, in Morocco. You can buy the CD on Amazon!
The song is called The Golden ladder and it is a traditional wedding song. Slideshow of beautiful Jewish Sephardic and Moroccan women and places. Note that not all women are jewish. Lyrics are posted on YouTube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngFD7Sb_Yw Wedding music Ariel Oziel sings a wedding song with Koby Chai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwuamoFC-U
The first song is Nani Nani a jewish sephardic lullaby,
the second song is Tsour Michela both sung by Francoise Atlan.
The other songs is a form of Gharnati music, mixed with jewish, arabic and gitano music and flamenco dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnEIDqINdgU
Andalusia, Andalusian, Andalus Arabic, Spanish, Jewish Music. Moroccan oudist Tarik Banzi improvises a solo.
He is the artistic director of Al-Andalus (www.Andalus.com) and oud & flamenco guitar ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w00UDth5V44
A composition of Felix Even Haim to Sason Zanani poem of love to Israel, an inter-cultural collaboration reflecting Israeli multi-culturalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt-DszVGc9U
Yehuda Saadoo sings Mati Caspi's Brith Olam Piyut style and makes it his own!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmS629XoZjU
An Israeli Moroccan singer, Lior Elmaliah, sings Albinoni in Moroccan Arabic, directed by David Kribousheh, April 2009. Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGoqfhQ5yQ
Israeli Moroccan singers, Lior Elmaliah and Simon Siboni, sing 'L'elisir d' amore' , directed by David Kribousheh, April 2009. Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDHZNgL1EGU
Lior Elmaliah sings Jewish Moroccan chants, always amazingly refreshing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpAWCmYgR70
Lior Elmaliah sings a string of songs Jewish Moroccan style.

Saints and pilgrimage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8t5Ixvw5AE
The story of the Solika Saint. Also the story of saints.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkxIM4zSb34
Piyutim: a 14 years old. Yaacov Barchechat sings a string of religious chants and Moroccan wedding songs, among others
In the background one sees photos of landscapes and rabbis from Marocco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpxAAI1ing
Selihot with images of leading saints and rabbis

Painting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CP_RquaQo
Eliany's Gates of Welcome, A painting project exhibited at Palais Glam Galas, Vienna, 1993
See also a more detailed ebook on this website www.artengine.ca/eliany/ Gates of welcome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTa9KjqgczE
Eroba Eroba, Une exposition d' Eliany a Vienne et a Paris, Revue de Philip Levy
More on this exhibit on this website www.artengine.ca/eliany/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CP_RquaQo
Gates of Welcome, A painting project exhibited at Palais Glam Galas, Vienna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZnMYuTS2g8
Jewish Moroccan Contemporary Artists

Radio

http://drop.io/oaycm55/asset/nativ-olami-mp3?ref=yahoo

Rituals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cyuuxSi9cE Hena
The application of hena, a redish natural conditioner, to parts of the body, is done for beauty as well as a good luck ritual. Hena rituals preceed bar mitsvahs and weddings, among other celebrations. It is a time of joy and celebration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8GX7W0xdOY Hena
The night of the bride party, a celebration of the bride in the Jewish Moroccan tradition. The bride and her guests are anointed with hena, believed to offer protection from harm, a vestige of an ancient belief in the existence of underworld creatures which aim to snatch brides shortly before their wedding night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvK_ZjnWcMo Hena
A hena celebration in Haifa, Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ej2NXjw6Bk Hena
A private henna party precceding the wedding (March 25, 2007). Everyone had a blast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3njudLPUdY Hena
An Arab henna party in Morocco. Some detailed henna decorations and tatoos, usually not common in Jewish henna parties.

http://darkeabotenou.blogspot.com/
Moroccan Daily Halakhot
La Halakha Marocaine Quotidienne

Vow of silence at a Casablanca Synagogue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3XDb0Q6ZT0&feature=related

Kosher Chicken Slaughter At the Fes Rambam Centre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2KCr5rlfs&feature=related

Trades

Leather Making in Fes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-QyIG15wI

Underground Zionist Activities in Morocco
Underground Zionist Activities in Morocco and Immigration to Israel

Weddings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M3noLBX9P4
Take a look at the magnificent dresses worn by the Jewish women of Morocco for their pre-wedding Henna ceremony.
More often than not, many if not all of these dresses are handed down from mothers to daughters often for generations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdoFeooLtIU
JEWISH WEDDINGS IN MOROCCO 1930 - 1960 (Photos in modern wedding gowns)
Jews of Morocco represent a remnant of an ancient,thriving community, which numbered over a quarter of a million in 1956. The largest community is in Casablanca, home to 2,000 Jews. There are small Jewish communities in Rabat (400), Marrakesh (250), Meknes (250), Tangier (150), Fez (150), and Tetuan (100). The Jews are generally descended from three different communities: Sephardim, Berber Jews, and Ashkenazim.
History: The Jewish community of present-day Morocco dates back more than 2,000 years. There were Jewish colonies in the country before it became a Roman province. Under the Romans the Jews enjoyed civic equality. In 429 the Vandal King Genserich conquered North Africa. In the 7th century many Jews fled Visgothic Spain and introduced modern culture, industry and commerce. Several Berber tribes adopted Judaism and controlled a vast area, but they were eventually subdued by Arab invaders. The Jews lived in peace until the 11th century.
In a 1033 pogrom in Fez thousands of Jews were murdered and the women were dragged off into slavery. When the liberal Almoravids came to power in 1062, conditions for Jews improved, but when the Almohades took over in the middle of the 12th century Jews were forced to embrace Islam or emigrate. It was during that time that Jews were forced to wear a particular costume a precursor of the Jewish badge. After the ouster of the Almohades in the 14th century the situation of Jews stabilized.
In 1391 a wave of Jewish refugees expelled from Spain brought new life to the community, as did new arrivals from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and 1497. From 1438, the Jews of Fez were forced to live in special quarters called mellahs, a name derived from the Arabic word for salt because the Jews in Morocco were forced to carry out the job of salting the heads of executed prisoners prior to their public display.
Under Moslem rule Jews had the status of dhimmi, protected vassals. The condition of the Jews did not improve until the establishment of the French Protectorate in 1912, when they were given equality and religious autonomy. However, although their situation was endangered during World War II when France was ruled by the antisemitic Vichy government, King Muhammed V prevented their deportation. By 1948 there were some 270,000 Jews in Morocco.In the face of a prevailing atmosphere of uncertainty and grinding poverty, many Jews elected to leave for Israel, France, the US and Canada. When Morocco gained independence in 1956, Jews became Moroccan citizens and were given equal rights and freedom of movement. However, legislation restricted their right to emigrate. Largely thanks to intervention by the WJC, the government allowed Moroccan Jews to leave. In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, the conditions worsened and many middle-class Jews emigrated.
Community: The major Jewish organization representing the community is the Conseil des Communautes Israelites in Casablanca. Its functions include external relations, general communal affairs, communal heritage, finance, maintenance of holy places, youth activities, and cultural and religious life. There are also regional committees which deal with the religious and social welfare needs of the community. The welfare organization in Casablanca is responsible for medical aid to the needy and hot meals for underprivileged Jewish pupils.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIywpRdgIcw
Photos of brides in traditional wedding dresses (al kassoua el kebira)
Old pictures of the Moroccan Jews, wedding celebrations and daily life, reflecting multiculturalism in Morocco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8t5Ixvw5AE
The story of the Solika Saint, marriages and saints.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCW1IBqe-0
A Jewish Moroccan Wedding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7VjmcdK8o
Lior Elmaliah sings wedding blessings at Kobi Oz wedding. A fusion of Jewish, Moroccan, Andalusian style. Touching.