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- Preservation Of Jewish Heritage In Egypt
American Jewish Committee In Egypt for events marking the centennial of Cairo’s main synagogue, Shaar Hashamayim, an American Jewish Committee delegation met this week with Egyptian officials to discuss efforts to preserve the Jewish heritage in Egypt....
Egypt
Egypt to pay for restoration of synagogues
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Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private ceremony.
Farouk Hosny said in a statement that his ministry views Jewish sites as much a part of Egypt's culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches and the restorations would not require any foreign funding.
On Sunday, the Ben Maimon synagogue, named after the 12th century rabbi and intellectual Maimonides, was rededicated in a ceremony that included half a dozen Egyptian Jewish families that long ago fled the country.
Hosny committed his ministry to restoring all 11 synagogues across Egypt, three of which have already been renovated.
- What's Going On With Egyptian Synagogues?
New Voices (Carly Silver) A post on the National Jewish Student Magazine blog about the lack of information available about the safety of the Cairo synagogues. Exerpt: Concerns have grown from the Egyptian revolutions about the country’s priceless...
- Jewish History Part Of Heritage
Bikya Masr (Mohamed Abdel Salam) The Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that Egypt bears the expenses of the restoration of all Jewish antiquities being restored in the country. He added that like the rest of the Egyptian antiquities whether...
- A Synagogue In Cairo
New York Times (Andrew Baker) One of Cairo’s most historic synagogues and a yeshiva, restored by the Egyptian government, is to be rededicated next week. Known colloquially as “Rav Moshe,” the yeshiva was the original study of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon,...
- Conservation: Egypt's Jewish Heritage
asharq alawsat (Zahi Hawass) There is a ridiculous story being circulated by malicious and biased media organs that claim that a group of Jews had informed UNESCO that the floor of the Maimonides synagogue in the ancient Al-Jamaliyah district of Old Cairo...
- Preservation Of Jewish Heritage In Egypt
American Jewish Committee In Egypt for events marking the centennial of Cairo’s main synagogue, Shaar Hashamayim, an American Jewish Committee delegation met this week with Egyptian officials to discuss efforts to preserve the Jewish heritage in Egypt....