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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Moroccan Jews of United States

The Moroccan Jews of United States, numbering approximately 25,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a North African ethnoreligious community formed in he Maghreb region during the Middle Ages They are an Diaspora people, with Jewish as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Jews people cluster of the Jewish Peoples. They mostly adhere to Judaism and Judeo-Moroccan Arabic is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Jewish Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: Jews
Primary Language(s): Judeo-Moroccan Arabic (aju)
Primary Religion(s): Judaism
Population: 25,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG050378
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Judaism
Religious Affiliation: Judaism

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%
Judaism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Judeo-Moroccan Arabic
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

80%
%
Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Speakers

Media Resources in Judeo-Moroccan Arabic:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Judeo-Moroccan Arabic:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Moroccan Jews:
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Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
readRomans 11:22

Pray that God will transform those who persist in unbelief and, in His everlasting kindness, graft them into His family.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
readActs 13:48-49

Pray that the gospel will spread throughout this whole region and that many will believe and embrace the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

The LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
readNumbers 6:25

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember that He has given them His favor and His presence.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Jew, Judeo-Moroccan Across Countries (ROP3 - 104318) reported in the following countries:

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4 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Maghrebi JewsPG011750Maghrebi JewsIsrael547,000Engaged yet UnreachedJudeo-Moroccan ArabicJudaism
Moroccan JewsPG050378Moroccan JewsUnited States25,500Unengaged and UnreachedJudeo-Moroccan ArabicJudaism
Judeo-Moroccan JewsPG050501Judeo-Moroccan JewsCanada16,500Engaged yet UnreachedJudeo-Moroccan ArabicJudaism
Moroccan JewsPG011861Moroccan JewsMorocco2,200Unengaged and UnreachedJudeo-Moroccan ArabicJudaism

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