Upcoming Expeditions
Tunisia
Judaism's Longest Continuous Lineage
Tunisa Highlights
Shabbat experience in Djerba with one of the world’s oldest continuous Jewish communities, practicing biblically old traditions unique to the island.
Visit schools, shops and home in the last community on earth where only Judeo-Arabic is spoken.
Meet the last remaining Jews of Tunis, known as the “Grana.” A French-speaking, Sephardic business community whose numbers are steadily declining.
Attend a Djerban-Jewish Wedding in the only Jewish community in the Arab world that is actively growing, with multiple lifecycle events taking place each week.
October 2026
Itinerary: Djerba/Zarzis→ El Jem/Kairouan → Tunis/Carthage
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The Final Chapter of a 2,700 Year-Old History
Syria Highlights
Exclusive visit to the Great Synagogue of Aleppo whose iron vault once housed the Aleppo Codex, the Hebrew Bible's most complete manuscript. This synagogue has been closed since the 1990s, but we are granted access.
Meet the last remaining Jews in Syria who have survived decades of civil war to close chapter of its history.
See the Cave of Elijah in the 2,700-year-old Jobar Synagogue, now undergoing a landmark restoration led by the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation.
Visit the Faranj Synagogue, the last fully intact and functional house of worship in Damscus's Old City.
June-July 2026 (Confirmed) + Fall
Itinerary: Damascus → Maaloula → Krak des Chevaliers → Aleppo
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Syria
The Mountain Jews &
the Last Shetl
Azerbaijan Highlights
Meet the last native Juhuri speakers, preserving an ancient Judeo-Persian language that has defined the Mountain Jewish identity in the Caucasus since the 5th century.
Tour Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village), the world’s last surviving all-Jewish shtetl outside Israel and the U.S., and visit the Museum of Mountain Jews in the former Six-Dome Synagogue.
Visit the memorial of Albert Agarunov, a Jewish National Hero of Azerbaijan, to see how this Shia-majority nation uniquely venerates its Jewish war veterans.
Fall 2026
Itinerary: Baku → Quba → Shamakhi (Oghuz) → Baku
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Azerbaijan
Zimbabwe
Judaism's Legacy In the African Bush
Zimbabwe Highlights
Meet some of the final ~80 custodians of a 130-year Jewish legacy — from a farmer in Bulawayo to the last, resilient resilient families keeping the lights on in the capital.
Experience a unique liturgical blend where the remaining Sephardic and Ashkenazi congregants alternate services between their respective synagogues to ensure a minyan (prayer quorum) for both.
Witness how the Sharon and Carmel Schools preserve Jewish traditions like lighting Shabbat candles are performed by a diverse student body despite having almost no Jewish pupils today.
August 4-9, 2026 (Confirmed)
Itinerary: Bulawayo → Harare
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Spanish Africa
The Last Sephardim Still in "Sephard" ("Spain")
Spanish Africa Highlights
Hear the last native speakers of Haketia in Melilla, a rare "Judeo-Spanish" dialect blending 15th-century Castilian, Hebrew, and Arabic that remains an active ethnolect within the city's Jewish community.
Explore Melilla's Or Zaruah Synagogue, designed by Enrique Nieto (a student of Gaudí) and the spiritual heart of the only living Jewish Quarter in Spain where streets names like "Tel Aviv" and "Haifa."
Explore the Nahon Museum in Tangier, a 19th-century masterpiece showcasing the silver and Ketubot of Sephardic families who built the city’s diplomatic and commercial legacy.
December 2026
Itinerary: Seville - Gibraltar (UK) → Ceuta & Melia (exclaves) → Tangiers
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