Egypt
Bikya Masr (Mohamed Abdel Salam)
- 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...
- Egypt To Pay For Restoration Of Synagogues
Google / AFP 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...
- Restored 19th Century Synagogue Re-opens
Google / AFP The 19th-century synagogue of Maimonides in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter reopened Sunday after a nearly two-year restoration by Egyptian authorities, participants at the opening told AFP. They said some 150 people attended the opening,...
- Earthquake-damaged Antiquities Restored
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister: 198 antiquities renovated, restored in Cairo Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on 9/2/2010 that 198 antiquities were renovated and restored from the 517 that were damaged during the 1992 earthquake...
- 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
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 ancient Egyptian, Islamic or Coptic, Egypt “considers the Jewish temples in Egypt as part of the Egyptian heritage, which must be restored on a regular basis.”
His comments come as the Egyptian government recently completed the restoration of a number of Jewish synagogues in the country as part of the culture ministry’s efforts to bolster its past, the minister’s office said.
- 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...
- Egypt To Pay For Restoration Of Synagogues
Google / AFP 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...
- Restored 19th Century Synagogue Re-opens
Google / AFP The 19th-century synagogue of Maimonides in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter reopened Sunday after a nearly two-year restoration by Egyptian authorities, participants at the opening told AFP. They said some 150 people attended the opening,...
- Earthquake-damaged Antiquities Restored
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister: 198 antiquities renovated, restored in Cairo Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on 9/2/2010 that 198 antiquities were renovated and restored from the 517 that were damaged during the 1992 earthquake...
- 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....