La Ghriba is a picturesque documentary about the 2,600-year-old Jewish community on the Tunisian island of Jerba, where Jews and Muslims live side-by-side peacefully.

A community with true foundations in the Jewish life of the ancients, island tradition holds that its synagogue -– known as El Ghriba (“the miraculous”) — is built with a stone from the ruins of the First Temple, and houses the oldest known Sefer Torah in its sanctuary.

Upon arrival, they were greeted with a Jewish community that existed in surprising harmony with its local Muslim Berber neighbors.

Along their valued status as fully Tunisian, Jerba's Jews maintain a strong pride in their Judaism, and they revel in showing it.

The occasion is one of music and dancing, and helps continue the tradition of drawing Jews from around the world to Jerba –- if only for a visit.