Rabbi Pesach Mirov, spiritual leader of the Mountain Jews Synagogue in Baku, Azerbaijan recently was the guest speaker during Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens’ “Friday Night Live”. In… ...

A Mountain Jewish singer has been chosen to represent the Muslim country of Azerbaijan in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Asaf (Sefael) Mishiev will be performing as part of his Baku-based ...

It also aspires to build the world’s largest Juhuri library to safeguard the Mountain Jews’ unique Persian dialect. “We opened the museum to showcase our rich history and welcome everyone ...

Some scholars believe that the first Mountain Jews, like members of many other Jewish communities, started to emigrate to a prospective homeland in what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine as early ...

Mountain Jews also maintain their own tradition of Judaism, which is different from Ashkenazim and Sephardim communities. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, multiple conflicts in the North ...

“We are Mountain Jews, we are originally from the city of Quba, but I was born in Baku,” he said, referring to the ancient Jewish community from the Caucasus region.

The Jewish community of the mostly Muslim region of Dagestan, focus of international attention since an attack on passengers flying in from Israel as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza ...