Island Hospitality By Sandy Eller | February 24, 2021
On the island of Djerba, a chassid from Williamsburg discovered that time and place don’t separate
It’s a 198-square-mile island located in the Mediterranean Sea’s Gulf of Gabes, known for its date orchards, white sandy beaches, and sweeping deserts, hardly a likely location for a Satmar chassid in his twenties from Williamsburg to spend Purim. But when Moshe Klein found himself in North Africa in mid-Adar, the idea of spending Purim in Djerba, whose Jewish community is believed to have been established during the time of Churban Bayis Rishon, was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.