{"id":3936,"date":"2017-04-08T19:21:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2017-04-08T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:38:33","slug":"in-boston-moroccans-and-jews-will-gather-to-celebrate-mimouna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/in-boston-moroccans-and-jews-will-gather-to-celebrate-mimouna\/","title":{"rendered":"In Boston, Moroccans and Jews Will Gather To Celebrate Mimouna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Zouhir Az<\/a><\/span>, April 8, 2017<\/p>\n

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[dropcap]M[\/dropcap]ore than 100\u00a0people are expected to gather to celebrate\u00a0another annual tradition of post-Passover festivities known as\u00a0Mimouna celebrations, \u00a0on Tuesday, April 18, 2017\u00a0from 7 p.m. \u2013 11 p.m, at the\u00a0Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. with a fun evening full\u00a0of activities and performances and there\u2019s something for everyone in the family to enjoy such as some traditional\u00a0Moroccan food, live music, dance and\u00a0much more.<\/p>\n

Mimouna is a traditional festival celebrated by Moroccan Jews to mark the last day of Passover and throughout the following day until sundown. Families open their homes to their Muslim neighbors and friends, who would fill their kitchen tables with an abundance of delicious sweets symbolizing fertility, joy, success, health, and prosperity.<\/p>\n

Besides its manifest character as an event, Mimouna\u00a0has another character of\u00a0bringing together people of different cultural, ethnic and religious\u00a0backgrounds to\u00a0celebrate Muslims and Jews friendship, coexistence, luck and good fortune as well as the start of the spring season.<\/p>\n

This event is organized and co-sponsored by the following NGOs;\u00a0the\u00a0Jewish Voice for Peace Boston,\u00a0Mimouna in Boston, Amazigh Cultural Network in America, Boston Amazigh Community and Dialogues en humanit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Official Poster: La Mimouna: A Moroccan Celebration of Jewish Muslim Conviviality<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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  By Zouhir Az, April 8, 2017   [dropcap]M[\/dropcap]ore than 100\u00a0people are expected to gather to celebrate\u00a0another annual tradition of post-Passover festivities known as\u00a0Mimouna celebrations, \u00a0on Tuesday, April 18, 2017\u00a0from 7 p.m. \u2013 11 p.m, at the\u00a0Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. with a fun evening full\u00a0of activities and performances and there\u2019s something for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[77,581,582,580,118,584,583],"class_list":{"0":"post-3936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-amazigh","10":"tag-jewish","11":"tag-jews","12":"tag-mimouna","13":"tag-morocco","14":"tag-muslims","15":"tag-post-passover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}