A Jewish festival at the historic synagogue on Djerba island in Tunisia is often touted as a successful example of Jewish-Muslim coexistence. But there's no doubt political tension still plays a role.

Tunis — A Tunisian police officer shot dead four people at Africa's oldest synagogue in an attack Tuesday that sparked panic during an annual Jewish pilgrimage on the island of Djerba. The officer ...

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 ...

TUNIS, Tunisia — UNESCO announced Monday it was adding the Tunisian resort island of Djerba to its list of World Heritage Sites because of its ancient ruins, whitewashed villages, mosques, churches ...

A Tunisian Jewish jeweler has been injured in a knife attack in Djerba, days before the island holds its yearly Jewish pilgrimage, community representative Rene Trabelsi said. The motive for the ...

(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 ...

Tunisian leader Kais Saied on Wednesday condemned the attack near the historic Djerba synagogue on Tuesday in which two Jewish cousins were killed. In a statement reported in Arabic media, including ...

The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday added Tunisia’s Djerba island to its list of World Heritage Sites. In a statement, The Tunisian Culture Ministry said the resort island was voted to the list ...

Djerba, Tunisia --Cracked tombstones litter the perimeter of the cemetery behind the Great Synagogue that anchors this tiny Tunisian Jewish community, but it was not vandals who broke them. Hundreds ...

Cyrine Ben Said, a Tunisian Muslim, carried candles and wrote her hopes for the future on an egg in religious ceremony at a synagogue on the southern island of Djerba. She wanted to share the rituals ...

(JTA) — Tunisia will seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, the site of an annual Jewish pilgrimage. Tunisia’s culture minister, Mohamed Zine El-Abidine, made the announcement on ...