Moroccan Jews are Maghrebi Jews, who live or lived in the area of North Africa now known as Morocco. Jews first migrated to this area after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and a second wave migrated from the Iberian peninsula in the period immediately preceding and following the 1492 Alhambra Decree, when the Jews were expelled from kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.
At its peak in the 1940s, Morocco's Jewish population exceeded 250,000. Today, approximately 5,000 Jews remain in Morocco, while in Israel they constitute the second-largest Jewish community, after the Russian Jews. Moroccan Jews and their descendants can now be found primarily in Israel, France, Canada, Spain, and Venezuela.
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“We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.”
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