Shin Tours runs Jewish heritage tours of Morocco lasting 9 to 14 days, priced from $3,924 per person, with departures running from December 2026 through March 2027. You can join one of five fixed-date group itineraries or commission a private bespoke tour built around your own group, dates and pace.
Kosher dining and full Shabbat observance can be built into either option.
Every journey takes you through the historic Jewish quarters (mellahs), synagogues and cemeteries of Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech and Essaouira. You travel with the same licensed Moroccan guide and driver throughout, with round-the-clock support from Shin Tours founder Asaf Peled. We're rated 4.9 on TripAdvisor with a Travelers' Choice Award.
Browse the five group tours below, or request a free custom itinerary.
Five Jewish Tours of Morocco: Dates, Durations and Prices
We've turned our most successful Jewish Morocco experiences into five ready-made itineraries: Classic Heritage, Multigenerational, Kosher & Shabbat, Luxury, and Roots. Book one as it stands, or contact us for a private Jewish tour of Morocco.
You'll find all five below, each with a sample day-by-day and a guide price.
| Tour | Departure | Days | From (pp) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Jewish Heritage Morocco | 1–9 Dec 2026 | 9 days / 8 nights | from $3,924 | First-time heritage travelers wanting the full arc |
| Multigenerational Jewish Morocco | 11–22 Jan 2027 | 12 days / 11 nights | from $4,727 | Families traveling together with something for everyone |
| Kosher & Shabbat-Observant Jewish Morocco | 8–21 Feb 2027 | 14 days / 13 nights | from $8,734 | Fully kosher, Shabbat-observant travel |
| Luxury Jewish Morocco | 28 Feb–12 Mar 2027 | 13 days / 12 nights | from $8,051 | Finest riads, desert camps, private guiding |
| Roots & Ancestral Jewish Morocco | 19–30 Jan 2027 | 12 days / 11 nights | from $8,028 | Tracing family names and Sephardic origins |
Prefer a Private Journey? Book a Private Jewish Morocco Tour
A bespoke Jewish heritage tour should feel like your family's story. Some journeys are best shaped entirely around the people traveling them – the grandmother who wants to sit quietly in the Ibn Danan Synagogue, the teenager who connects through food and the desert, the couple tracing a family name back to a Jewish cemetery in Fez.
With a bespoke tour, every journey begins with a conversation with our founder, Asaf Peled. Asaf will build the route, the pace, and the moments that will stay with you for years to come.
Get your free itinerary today. Share a few details about your group and we'll design a custom Jewish Morocco tour for you, at no cost.
Who Organizes Your Jewish Morocco Tour?
Every Shin Tours journey is designed and overseen by Asaf Peled, the founder and CEO of Shin Tours.
Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Congregation Agudath Sholom, who partnered with Asaf on a Jewish heritage journey through France, praised him in The Jewish Link for his "flawless organization, extraordinary guides and a calm sense that everything is taken care of".
Asaf has been a registered tour guide since 2012, and he spends months each year vetting and re-vetting every aspect of our Jewish tours through Morocco:
- The hotels
- The guides
- The restaurants
- The kosher food and catering
- The best Jewish sites in Morocco
Our five itineraries are based on hundreds of travelers walking the same routes. Asaf also has the expertise to create a custom itinerary for your tour group, if that's what you're looking for.
Who Are the Guides on the Ground?
On the ground in Morocco, your tour is delivered by licensed, insured local guides and drivers. You get the reassurance of qualified Moroccan specialists who know the country intimately, with Shin Tours designing and leading your journey from first inquiry to final departure.
Guests travel with the same guide and driver throughout – the people who, as one traveler put it, make or break a trip. We use local guides like Youssef Sebti, a Moroccan Ministry–registered guide praised by recent guests on TripAdvisor for flawless English and deep knowledge of the country's Jewish and cultural heritage.
Youssef was recommended as a tour guide by The Times newspaper and personally knows Jewish families in Marrakech, Fez and Casablanca who open their doors and dining rooms for our guests.
Why Book a Jewish Morocco Tour With Shin Tours?
Shin Tours designs, manages, and stands behind your entire journey through Morocco – not just the days you spend with a guide.
Here's what that means in practice.
Does Shin Tours Handle the Whole Trip or Just the Guided Tour?
Shin Tours handles the whole trip – from the moment you land to the moment you depart.
We assist with fast-track arrival at the airport, private transfers between cities, hotel check-ins and the pacing of your route. We offer round-the-clock support for the full duration of your Jewish Morocco tour.
A local operator often takes responsibility only for the guided portion of each day. The rest is up to you.
What does the difference look like in practice?
On one recent trip, a strike grounded a client's outbound flight. Our CEO Asaf Peled rebooked them and had them traveling again the next day. Because Shin Tours organizes every element of the itinerary, we can rearrange the trip instead of leaving you to figure it out on your own.
Who Do I Contact If Something Goes Wrong During the Trip?
You contact Asaf Peled, the founder of Shin Tours, directly. There is no handover between the person who sold you the tour and the person responsible for delivering it.
Asaf designs your itinerary, vets every element of it, and stays reachable throughout your time in Morocco.
That access starts before you book. One couple on TripAdvisor chose Shin Tours after Asaf phoned them personally to talk through a food concern, weeks before any money changed hands. Your Moroccan guide handles the day in front of you. Asaf handles everything above it.
Can I Change My Jewish Morocco Itinerary at the Last Minute?
Yes. Because Shin Tours holds every part of the trip rather than sub-contracting it, we can adjust your itinerary while you are already in the country. This could mean:
- Swapping day plan's around
- Adding a new destination
- Slowing the pace
- Moving a departure
Changes that would require a local operator to renegotiate with three separate suppliers are, for us, a single conversation.
The common ones are practical rather than dramatic: a family decides the desert leg is too long for a grandparent, or a group wants an extra morning in the Fez mellah after the first visit runs over. If a site turns out to be closed on the day, your guide and Asaf arrange a meaningful alternative rather than dropping it from the trip.
Ask at the time – the answer is almost always yes.
Who Chooses the Hotels, Guides and Restaurants on the Tour?
Every hotel, riad, guide, driver, restaurant and site on a Shin Tours Jewish Morocco tour is chosen and checked personally by founder Asaf Peled,
Asaf spends months each year vetting and re-vetting them. Nothing on your itinerary is selected from a supplier catalogue.
You also travel with the same licensed Moroccan guide and the same driver for the entire journey. Accommodation is chosen for character rather than convenience: one senior couple stayed in five different riads across the country and rated the service five stars in every one.
The five ready-made itineraries are built from hundreds of travelers walking the same routes, and every element in them has been through the same check.
What's the Difference Between Shin Tours and a Local Morocco Operator?
A Morocco-based operator knows Morocco. Shin Tours knows Jewish heritage travel – and the two are not the same expertise.
Knowing which day the Ibn Danan Synagogue is open is local knowledge. Knowing how to build kosher dining and Shabbat observance into a nine-day route, how to pace a roots journey so a grandmother and a teenager both stay with it, and what a Jewish family actually wants from a mellah visit is heritage knowledge.
Shin Tours has been designing Jewish heritage journeys since 2018 across six countries – not just Morocco. That expertise sits with Shin and travels with you.
The Moroccan specialists on the ground deliver the days. Shin Tours designs and owns the journey.
Which Jewish Sites Will You Visit in Morocco?
Morocco holds one of the oldest and richest Jewish histories in the world:
- synagogues still in daily use
- restored mellahs
- sacred tombs
- museums most visitors never reach
Every Shin Tours itinerary is built around four cities – Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech and Essaouira – and you visit them with a guide who can read the inscriptions and tell you whose story you are standing in.
Jewish Casablanca: Museum of Moroccan Judaism and Beth-El Synagogue
Casablanca is the modern heart of Moroccan Jewish life and home to the largest remaining Jewish community in the country. A Shin Tours day here connects Morocco's Jewish past to its present, moving from the museum to a working synagogue to the old mellah and its markets.
Museum of Moroccan Judaism
The Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca is the only Jewish museum in the Arab world. Its collection covers synagogue interiors, ritual objects, photography and textiles drawn from communities across Morocco, and it gives you the national picture before you travel out to the individual cities.
Your Shin Tours guide walks the collection with you rather than handing you an audio set.
Beth-El Synagogue
Beth-El Synagogue is Casablanca's grandest surviving synagogue, known for its stained glass and for its central role in the city's living Jewish community. It remains in active use, which makes it a different kind of visit from a restored monument – you are in a functioning house of prayer, not an exhibit.
The Casablanca Mellah
The Casablanca mellah and its surrounding markets round out the day. Walking it shows how the Jewish quarter sat inside the commercial life of the city rather than apart from it, and it sets up the older, denser mellahs you will see in Fez and Marrakech.
Read more: A guide to Casablanca’s Jewish quarter.
Jewish Fez: The Mellah, Ibn Danan Synagogue and the Hillside Cemetery
Fez (also written Fes) holds the oldest Jewish quarter in Morocco, with a community history stretching back more than a thousand years. It is the densest Jewish heritage day on most Shin Tours Morocco itineraries, and the one travelers most often ask to extend.
The Fez Mellah
The Fez mellah was the first Jewish quarter in Morocco to carry that name, and it gave the word to every mellah that followed. The balconied houses, the narrow lanes and the position of the quarter beside the royal palace all say something about how the community lived and who protected it.
Ibn Danan Synagogue
The Ibn Danan Synagogue is a beautifully restored 17th-century synagogue in the Fez mellah and a recognized jewel of Moroccan Jewish architecture, with its carved bimah, painted woodwork and the mikveh beneath the floor. It sits within the UNESCO-listed medina of Fez.
This is the single site most Shin Tours travelers name afterwards as the moment the trip landed.
The Fez Jewish Cemetery
The hillside Jewish cemetery and its whitewashed tombs look out over the medina from above the mellah. It is one of the best-kept Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, and for travelers tracing a family name it is often the first place a search becomes concrete rather than theoretical.
Read more: A guide to the Fez Mellah.
Jewish Marrakech: The Mellah, Slat al-Azama Synagogue and Miâara Cemetery
Marrakech has one of the largest mellahs in Morocco, tucked beside the royal palace. A Shin Tours visit here shows how a Jewish community lived at the heart of an imperial city, and where a few threads of it continue today.
The Marrakech Mellah
The Marrakech mellah sits directly against the Badi and Bahia palace complex, a position that reflects the community's commercial and financial role in the city. Its spice and jewellery markets are still working markets, not a preserved quarter.
Slat al-Azama Synagogue
Slat al-Azama is an active synagogue built around a quiet courtyard in the heart of the Marrakech mellah, founded by Jewish families arriving from Spain after the expulsion. It is the clearest single link between Sephardic Spain and Moroccan Jewish life that you can stand inside.
Miâara Jewish Cemetery
The Miâara is the historic Jewish cemetery of Marrakech. Its whitewashed tombs and the tombs of local sages draw both visitors and pilgrims. Shin Tours guides often know the cemetery guardians, which matters if you are looking for a specific family name.
Read more: A guide to the Marrakech Mellah.
Jewish Essaouira: Bayt Dakira and the Rabbi Haim Pinto Synagogue
Essaouira – historically known as Mogador – once had a population that was roughly a third Jewish, and the town wears that heritage openly. It is where Morocco's Jewish story meets the Atlantic, and it is the coastal counterweight to the inland intensity of Fez and Marrakech.
Bayt Dakira Heritage Center
Bayt Dakira is a restored heritage center and synagogue in the Essaouira mellah, dedicated to the town's Jewish memory. It is unusual in Morocco for being a state-backed Jewish memory project rather than a community-maintained building, and it frames Essaouira's Jewish history as part of the national story.
Rabbi Haim Pinto Synagogue and Tomb
The synagogue and house of Rabbi Haim Pinto remain a place of pilgrimage, and his tomb in the Essaouira Jewish cemetery draws visitors from across the diaspora each year for the hiloula. Shin Tours can time a Morocco itinerary around the hiloula where dates allow – ask when you request an itinerary.
The Essaouira Mellah
The Essaouira mellah and the old Jewish cemetery above the ramparts are still legible in the street plan, and the coastal trading traditions that drew the community here in the first place are part of what you walk through.
Read more: A guide to Jewish Essaouira.
What’s Included in Your Jewish Tour of Morocco
- Private guiding throughout – the same licensed Moroccan guide and driver with you for the whole journey, not a rotating cast.
- Handpicked accommodation – riads and hotels chosen by Asaf for character and comfort, not convenience.
- Private transfers – a comfortable, air-conditioned private vehicle; no shared coaches.
- Daily breakfast and guidance to trusted, safe places to eat throughout your trip.
- All site visits and heritage guiding across your itinerary.
- Personal, round-the-clock support from Shin Tours for the duration of your trip.
Flights, Kosher Arrangements and Schedule Changes
- Flights can be arranged by Shin Tours or booked yourself – your choice.
- Kosher and Shabbat-observant travel can be built into any itinerary – see below.
- If a site is closed or plans shift, your guide and Asaf arrange a meaningful alternative rather than leaving you stranded.
What's Not Included
- International flights, unless you ask us to arrange them for you
- Lunches and dinners, except where your itinerary specifies otherwise
- Tips for your guide and driver
- Travel insurance – we recommend arranging this before you travel
- Visa costs, where applicable to your nationality
- Personal expenses – shopping, drinks, spa treatments and similar
