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Jews of Morocco: Before There Was a "Middle East"
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Chapter One: Before There Was a "Middle East"
[Image: Bas-relief of Maimonides, one of 23 "Lawgivers" adorning the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Capitol, Washington, D.C.]
There was a Jewish community in Morocco that didn't arrive with the expulsion from Spain. It was already there — a thousand years earlier.
Evidence From the Third Century
A Hebrew tombstone found at Volubilis, near Moulay Idriss, has been dated to the third century CE. More such tombstones have been found at Salé and Tangier. The Jewish presence in North Africa has been described as one of the only stable constants in the region's turbulent history: the Jews arrived with the first conquerors — the Phoenicians — and remained after everyone else had already left.
When Fez Was Founded, the Jews Were Already There
When the city of Fez was founded in 798, Jews were already present — some of them, according to the sources, brought there by the city's own founder, Idris II. In the tenth century, Fez became an independent center of Torah learning, no longer dependent on the Geonim of Babylon. From that point on, the heads of the "Land of Israel Yeshiva" — the supreme Torah institution in Jerusalem itself — began arriving from North Africa, some of them natives of Fez and Sijilmasa. The familiar direction is influence flowing from the center outward to the periphery. Here, it happened the other way, too.
A Golden Age, in Muslim Testimony
In the mid-eleventh century, the Almoravid dynasty took control of Morocco, opening a period of relative security that lasted roughly a century. Jews were appointed to viziership, served as court physicians, and worked as poets and thinkers. The Andalusian Muslim historian al-Bakri wrote of this period: "The Jews were more numerous in Fez than in any other city in the Maghreb. From there, they set out on trading journeys to every country in the world."
Maimonides was here, too
During that very period, Rabbi Maimon the Judge and his son — Maimonides — were active in Fez, writing letters of encouragement to the local community. This was not a marginal way station in his life. This was a community he knew from the inside, before he ever reached Fustat in Egypt.
There is a small, remarkable piece of evidence that this figure continues to echo far from the Middle East. In the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, twenty-three marble reliefs of historical "lawgivers" hang on the chamber walls — alongside Hammurabi, King Solomon, and Thomas Jefferson stands Maimonides. When the sculptor who created the relief in 1949 designed his likeness, she originally wanted to place a yarmulke on his head — so that he would look like a more "recognizable American Jew." A turban, which would have been far more historically accurate for a twelfth-century Middle Eastern-North African Jew, seemed to her less "Jewish." Even in Washington in 1949, someone tried to reshape an Eastern figure to fit a more familiar expectation.
It Wasn't Always Easy
In 1465, during a revolt that toppled the ruling dynasty, nearly the entire Jewish community of Fez was massacred — from thousands of souls, according to the accounts, only eleven survived. That, too, is part of the story.
But the community rose again. A wave of Spanish and Portuguese exiles that arrived only a few decades later brought renewed economic and spiritual flourishing — and a community that had buried nearly all its children rebuilt itself once more, this time with an added layer of wisdom, wealth, and experience.
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Chapter One: Before There Was a "Middle East"
[Image: Bas-relief of Maimonides, one of 23 "Lawgivers" adorning the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Capitol, Washington, D.C.]
There was a Jewish community in Morocco that didn't arrive with the expulsion from Spain. It was already there — a thousand years earlier.
Evidence From the Third Century
A Hebrew tombstone found at Volubilis, near Moulay Idriss, has been dated to the third century CE. More such tombstones have been found at Salé and Tangier. The Jewish presence in North Africa has been described as one of the only stable constants in the region's turbulent history: the Jews arrived with the first conquerors — the Phoenicians — and remained after everyone else had already left.
When Fez Was Founded, the Jews Were Already There
When the city of Fez was founded in 798, Jews were already present — some of them, according to the sources, brought there by the city's own founder, Idris II. In the tenth century, Fez became an independent center of Torah learning, no longer dependent on the Geonim of Babylon. From that point on, the heads of the "Land of Israel Yeshiva" — the supreme Torah institution in Jerusalem itself — began arriving from North Africa, some of them natives of Fez and Sijilmasa. The familiar direction is influence flowing from the center outward to the periphery. Here, it happened the other way, too.
A Golden Age, in Muslim Testimony
In the mid-eleventh century, the Almoravid dynasty took control of Morocco, opening a period of relative security that lasted roughly a century. Jews were appointed to viziership, served as court physicians, and worked as poets and thinkers. The Andalusian Muslim historian al-Bakri wrote of this period: "The Jews were more numerous in Fez than in any other city in the Maghreb. From there, they set out on trading journeys to every country in the world."
Maimonides was here, too
During that very period, Rabbi Maimon the Judge and his son — Maimonides — were active in Fez, writing letters of encouragement to the local community. This was not a marginal way station in his life. This was a community he knew from the inside, before he ever reached Fustat in Egypt.
There is a small, remarkable piece of evidence that this figure continues to echo far from the Middle East. In the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, twenty-three marble reliefs of historical "lawgivers" hang on the chamber walls — alongside Hammurabi, King Solomon, and Thomas Jefferson stands Maimonides. When the sculptor who created the relief in 1949 designed his likeness, she originally wanted to place a yarmulke on his head — so that he would look like a more "recognizable American Jew." A turban, which would have been far more historically accurate for a twelfth-century Middle Eastern-North African Jew, seemed to her less "Jewish." Even in Washington in 1949, someone tried to reshape an Eastern figure to fit a more familiar expectation.
It Wasn't Always Easy
In 1465, during a revolt that toppled the ruling dynasty, nearly the entire Jewish community of Fez was massacred — from thousands of souls, according to the accounts, only eleven survived. That, too, is part of the story.
But the community rose again. A wave of Spanish and Portuguese exiles that arrived only a few decades later brought renewed economic and spiritual flourishing — and a community that had buried nearly all its children rebuilt itself once more, this time with an added layer of wisdom, wealth, and experience.
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Chapter Two: The Torah That Came Out of Fez
[Image: The Ibn Danan Synagogue, Fez — interior of the hall, with its turquoise-blue columns and traditional chandeliers]
"From Fez, Torah shall go out to all the lands" — so it was said. And it wasn't an exaggeration.
A Synagogue That Outlasted Three Dynasties
Look at this place. Blue columns, antique metal chandeliers, dark wooden benches that served generations of worshippers. The Ibn Danan Synagogue in Fez, built in the seventeenth century, is named for a family that is itself a story of continuity: the Ibn Danan family originally fled to Granada, Spain, then returned to Morocco after the 1492 expulsion — and from 1812 until the synagogue's closure in the 1960s, every rabbi who served there came from that same family. Nearly a hundred and fifty years of a single rabbinic dynasty, in a single place.
Two Worlds Meet
The Spanish exiles who arrived at the end of the fifteenth century found in Fez a Jewish community far older than themselves — the "Toshavim" (natives). The two worlds spoke a different prayer rite, held different dietary customs, and at times argued bitterly (a dispute that lasted decades was called the "Polmus HaNefiha"). But gradually, they merged.
Dynasties That Held for Generations
Just as we saw in Egypt with the Maimonides family, so too in Morocco: entire families of scholars inherited the rabbinate generation after generation — Toledano, Berdugo, Ibn Danan, Ibn Tzur. Rabbi Yaakov Ibn Tzur (the Yaavetz, 1673–1753) headed the rabbinical court of Fez, and in 1698 compiled the "Takanot of Fez" — roughly a quarter of a thousand legal ordinances, formulated by generations of rabbis over the two centuries following the Spanish expulsion. These ordinances gradually became the binding legal code for most of Moroccan Jewry.
A Sophisticated Legal System
The rabbinical court system was remarkably well organized: ordinances documented from 1603, 1611, and 1737 — including explicit protections for the elderly, orphans, and widows. When a small community lacked sufficiently senior judges, it would formally accept the authority of a neighboring city's court.
The Connection to Safed No One Talks About
Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, author of the celebrated commentary "Or HaChaim," was born in Salé, Morocco. Other scholars from the Dra'a region were engaged in deep Kabbalistic study even before Safed became the world center of Kabbalah — and some of them went on to join the disciples of the Ari himself.
Chapter Two: The Torah That Came Out of Fez
[Image: The Ibn Danan Synagogue, Fez — interior of the hall, with its turquoise-blue columns and traditional chandeliers]
"From Fez, Torah shall go out to all the lands" — so it was said. And it wasn't an exaggeration.
A Synagogue That Outlasted Three Dynasties
Look at this place. Blue columns, antique metal chandeliers, dark wooden benches that served generations of worshippers. The Ibn Danan Synagogue in Fez, built in the seventeenth century, is named for a family that is itself a story of continuity: the Ibn Danan family originally fled to Granada, Spain, then returned to Morocco after the 1492 expulsion — and from 1812 until the synagogue's closure in the 1960s, every rabbi who served there came from that same family. Nearly a hundred and fifty years of a single rabbinic dynasty, in a single place.
Two Worlds Meet
The Spanish exiles who arrived at the end of the fifteenth century found in Fez a Jewish community far older than themselves — the "Toshavim" (natives). The two worlds spoke a different prayer rite, held different dietary customs, and at times argued bitterly (a dispute that lasted decades was called the "Polmus HaNefiha"). But gradually, they merged.
Dynasties That Held for Generations
Just as we saw in Egypt with the Maimonides family, so too in Morocco: entire families of scholars inherited the rabbinate generation after generation — Toledano, Berdugo, Ibn Danan, Ibn Tzur. Rabbi Yaakov Ibn Tzur (the Yaavetz, 1673–1753) headed the rabbinical court of Fez, and in 1698 compiled the "Takanot of Fez" — roughly a quarter of a thousand legal ordinances, formulated by generations of rabbis over the two centuries following the Spanish expulsion. These ordinances gradually became the binding legal code for most of Moroccan Jewry.
A Sophisticated Legal System
The rabbinical court system was remarkably well organized: ordinances documented from 1603, 1611, and 1737 — including explicit protections for the elderly, orphans, and widows. When a small community lacked sufficiently senior judges, it would formally accept the authority of a neighboring city's court.
The Connection to Safed No One Talks About
Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, author of the celebrated commentary "Or HaChaim," was born in Salé, Morocco. Other scholars from the Dra'a region were engaged in deep Kabbalistic study even before Safed became the world center of Kabbalah — and some of them went on to join the disciples of the Ari himself.
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Chapter Three: The Communal Flourishing
[Image: "Jewish Wedding in Morocco," Alfred Dehodencq, 1839 — displayed at the Louvre Museum, Paris]
Look at this painting. A dancer at the center of the room, her hands raised mid-motion. Oud and drum players accompany her. All around — a full crowd, men and women, children peeking from the balcony. This isn't an exotic scene the painter imagined — it's an actual Jewish wedding in Morocco, in the year 1839, documented in exacting detail by someone who witnessed it firsthand. The painting is significant enough that it hangs today in the Louvre itself.
It wasn't all Torah and law. There was also a vibrant, generous, remarkably well-organized community — documented in precise numbers.
A Census From 1879
Rabbi Avner Yisrael HaTzarfati of Fez conducted a detailed census in 1879 of the Jewish population of five Moroccan cities, including family names. The result: 5,844 Jews in Fez, 4,608 in Meknes, 2,168 in Sefrou. These aren't rough estimates — they are precise household counts, preserved and published.
Women Who Built Institutions From Nothing
Rivka Toledano in Meknes founded a Torah school, a feeding program for poor children, and an aid organization for couples in need — all on her own initiative. In Fez, Simcha bat HaMelech cooked with her own hands for Torah-school children for twenty years as a full volunteer, and Zahara Sabhon earned the title "Mother of the Children" for her devotion.
A Society for Visiting the Sick
Rabbi Shalom Sudri turned his private shop into a storehouse of medicine for the community's sick. Nissim Chayon served as president of the "Bikur Cholim" society in Meknes for forty-five years — an organized communal infrastructure, built and sustained by private individuals.
It Wasn't Always Easy, Here Too
In 1903, violent riots broke out in Meknes amid a succession crisis in the ruling government. Rabbi Chaim Mashash, so the story goes, went out in prayer that stopped the rioters before they could cause even greater damage. The community, as always, carried on afterward.
Chapter Three: The Communal Flourishing
[Image: "Jewish Wedding in Morocco," Alfred Dehodencq, 1839 — displayed at the Louvre Museum, Paris]
Look at this painting. A dancer at the center of the room, her hands raised mid-motion. Oud and drum players accompany her. All around — a full crowd, men and women, children peeking from the balcony. This isn't an exotic scene the painter imagined — it's an actual Jewish wedding in Morocco, in the year 1839, documented in exacting detail by someone who witnessed it firsthand. The painting is significant enough that it hangs today in the Louvre itself.
It wasn't all Torah and law. There was also a vibrant, generous, remarkably well-organized community — documented in precise numbers.
A Census From 1879
Rabbi Avner Yisrael HaTzarfati of Fez conducted a detailed census in 1879 of the Jewish population of five Moroccan cities, including family names. The result: 5,844 Jews in Fez, 4,608 in Meknes, 2,168 in Sefrou. These aren't rough estimates — they are precise household counts, preserved and published.
Women Who Built Institutions From Nothing
Rivka Toledano in Meknes founded a Torah school, a feeding program for poor children, and an aid organization for couples in need — all on her own initiative. In Fez, Simcha bat HaMelech cooked with her own hands for Torah-school children for twenty years as a full volunteer, and Zahara Sabhon earned the title "Mother of the Children" for her devotion.
A Society for Visiting the Sick
Rabbi Shalom Sudri turned his private shop into a storehouse of medicine for the community's sick. Nissim Chayon served as president of the "Bikur Cholim" society in Meknes for forty-five years — an organized communal infrastructure, built and sustained by private individuals.
It Wasn't Always Easy, Here Too
In 1903, violent riots broke out in Meknes amid a succession crisis in the ruling government. Rabbi Chaim Mashash, so the story goes, went out in prayer that stopped the rioters before they could cause even greater damage. The community, as always, carried on afterward.
Become a Rainmaker.
It’s 10:24 PM. Your phone buzzes.
Our meteorologists have identified a seeding window in Northern Utah.
You’ve got ten hours to turn supercooled liquid water into snow that will feed into the farms and communities that need water now more than ever.
🧵
It’s 10:24 PM. Your phone buzzes.
Our meteorologists have identified a seeding window in Northern Utah.
You’ve got ten hours to turn supercooled liquid water into snow that will feed into the farms and communities that need water now more than ever.
🧵
At headquarters, your team scouts the mission and loads the F-150 with drones, generators, laptops, and a Starlink. Your dog jumps in the cab with you, ready for adventure.
The Agile Deployment Vehicle smells like Red Bull as your crew heads north towards the mountains. The temperature outside is dropping. Single digits by the time you reach the launch site.
The Agile Deployment Vehicle smells like Red Bull as your crew heads north towards the mountains. The temperature outside is dropping. Single digits by the time you reach the launch site.
Your fingers are clumsy with the cold as you run pre-flight checks, but you’ve done it enough times that your hands know what to do.
Your drone lifts into the sky, then out of sight.
Your drone lifts into the sky, then out of sight.
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A murder was committed 31 years ago and challenges an evidentiary matter on habeas corpus review. The full Fifth Circuit takes the case. Judge J.E. Smith writes a rare "disgrantle"--dissenting from the grant of full court rehearing.
Judge J.E. Smith's writing lays out his theory of en banc review: The Fifth Circuit should not be squeamish about proceeding, but they should reserve it for weightier issues.
"We are in our fourth decade of delaying, and thus denying, justice for" the murder victim, Judge Smith concludes. With a touch of snark about some of the vote counts in an earlier en banc proceeding, either way the issue the panel resolved will be resolved on *an* appeal
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.
Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.
We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.
We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
In neuroscience, global workspace theory holds that thoughts become consciously accessible when they enter a privileged workspace that’s broadcast across the brain.
Using a new interpretability technique, we found something similar in Claude: the J-space. anthropic.com/research/globa…
Using a new interpretability technique, we found something similar in Claude: the J-space. anthropic.com/research/globa…
The J-space (named after the Jacobian, the mathematical technique we used) is different from Claude’s outputs, or even its “chain of thought” text.
It’s in the model’s internal neural activations, and allows it to think about concepts without writing them down anywhere.
It’s in the model’s internal neural activations, and allows it to think about concepts without writing them down anywhere.
SERCO IN ALBERTA
(a thread with receipts)
Alberta just hired this company to manage disability benefits for hundreds of thousands of Albertans.
You deserve to know who they are.
Because their track record is...
Shameful.
🧵👇
(a thread with receipts)
Alberta just hired this company to manage disability benefits for hundreds of thousands of Albertans.
You deserve to know who they are.
Because their track record is...
Shameful.
🧵👇
Serco Canada has a $51 million contract to manage ADAP employment services for Calgary and Southern Alberta.
They will determine your employability.
They will manage your file.
They will report non-compliance to the provincial ministry.
Their decision can end your benefits.
So who is Serco?
Should they have been hired?
They will determine your employability.
They will manage your file.
They will report non-compliance to the provincial ministry.
Their decision can end your benefits.
So who is Serco?
Should they have been hired?
Serco is a British-owned multinational outsourcing corporation operating on four continents.
They run government contracts across healthcare, welfare, immigration detention, defence, and transport in the UK, Australia, USA, Middle East and now Canada.
Their business model?
Governments outsource.
Serco profits.
They run government contracts across healthcare, welfare, immigration detention, defence, and transport in the UK, Australia, USA, Middle East and now Canada.
Their business model?
Governments outsource.
Serco profits.
1/ I prescribed statins to thousands of patients over my career as a cardiologist. I believe the evidence: they reduce heart attacks and strokes in people at risk. But I think we've been giving an average answer to a deeply personal question. A thread on the answers I never had. 🧵
2/ Imagine a 58 yo committed senior athlete on atorvastatin. Lipids beautiful. But his VO2max is falling faster than he expects given his training. "Probably normal aging," we might say. But "probably aging" is what we say when we don't have the data to be more specific.
3/ Start with pharmacology. SLCO1B1 encodes OATP1B1, the transporter that pulls statins into the liver. ~1 in 4 people of European ancestry carries a reduced-function copy -> less hepatic uptake -> more drug circulating to muscle.
"THE SHILLER CAPE RATIO FOR THE S&P 500 IS NEAR ALL TIME HIGHS!"
-or-
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE SHILLER CAPE RATIO AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT MY GAMBLING?"
Like it says below, the Shiller CAPE is near dotcom levels and about to set a new all time record.
Have you talked to your pets about where to store their inheritance and how to fend off raiders when it happens?
Just how terrified should you be? Read on.
Plus, you might learn something today.
[1/11]
-or-
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE SHILLER CAPE RATIO AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT MY GAMBLING?"
Like it says below, the Shiller CAPE is near dotcom levels and about to set a new all time record.
Have you talked to your pets about where to store their inheritance and how to fend off raiders when it happens?
Just how terrified should you be? Read on.
Plus, you might learn something today.
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Oh, first thing's first. My apologies to the excellent @MikeZaccardi, whose tweet I hijacked for this post. I'm not aiming this at him and HIGHLY recommend you follow him if you're not already. I'm serious. He just had the misfortune of having the first post I saw when I searched for a CAPE tweet.
Ok so, for those of you who are just here because this casino is easier to get to than the one on the riverboat outside of town, let me explain what the Shiller CAPE ratio is.
[2/11]
Ok so, for those of you who are just here because this casino is easier to get to than the one on the riverboat outside of town, let me explain what the Shiller CAPE ratio is.
[2/11]
No, wait. First let's go over what a P/E ratio is, because you've heard about it for years and stroked your chin, and said "hmm yes very interesting" while side-eying your cat in total confusion. The P in P/E ratio is price; that's easy enough, that's just the same stock price that you use to figure out how much you lose each day gambling.
The E in P/E ratio is earnings. Generally speaking, we use the trailing 12 months earnings from a company's financial statements (you know, the ones you're supposed to read and understand each quarter) to get this number.
You know when you short 1000 shares of some company on Earnings Report Day and then the stock jumps $200 in after hours and you lose your house? That's just *one quarter* worth of earnings responsible for ripping your cock clean off. This is the trailing TWELVE months (TTM) earnings; so you'll need to add up the last 4 quarters Diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS) to get this number. See an example below of where to get that info for each quarter.
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The E in P/E ratio is earnings. Generally speaking, we use the trailing 12 months earnings from a company's financial statements (you know, the ones you're supposed to read and understand each quarter) to get this number.
You know when you short 1000 shares of some company on Earnings Report Day and then the stock jumps $200 in after hours and you lose your house? That's just *one quarter* worth of earnings responsible for ripping your cock clean off. This is the trailing TWELVE months (TTM) earnings; so you'll need to add up the last 4 quarters Diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS) to get this number. See an example below of where to get that info for each quarter.
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