Tunisian Jewish émigrés gathered in Paris and Israel this month to remember Rabbi Nissan Pinson, the veteran Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Tunis who passed away in December.

In Israel, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, a product of the Lubavitch school system in North Africa, where Pinson once taught before moving to Tunis, addressed the audience, as did Rabbi Meyer Mazouz, rabbi of the Tunisian community in Jerusalem.

In Paris, the city’s Chief Rabbi David Messas and Rabbi Irmya Cohen, head of the Paris rabbinical court, remembered Pinson’s dedication to the community, noting that did not leave the country, even as Tunisia’s Jewish population plummeted. ...