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Ver todos los artículos de esta sección >> En pasadas aviamos meldado ke el kal Eliyahu Anavi de Aleksandria, Ejipto, se estava restorando, malgrado ke kaji no kedaron djudios en la sivdad o en el pais. (Un tiempo avia 40000 djudios en Ejipto, agora ay solo 20.) Asegun el artikolo …

By Tamar Svanidze Journalist, Global Affairs   An interior view of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue during in Alexandria, Egypt. EPA-EFE//KHALED ELFIQI After undergoing extensive renovations, the Egyptian government reopened to much fanfare a six-hundred-year-old synagogue in the country’s Mediterranean coastal city Alexandria on January 10, a ceremony that was attended …

For security reasons, last Jewish house of worship in Egyptian city will stay closed for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur By AARON KALMAN Egyptian authorities have canceled prayers at Alexandria’s only active synagogue during the upcoming holidays, and for the first time in years the building will remain vacant on the …

The words that someone from Egypt had posted on my Facebook page were thoroughly inspiring. Now that Hosni Mubarak’s regime was almost certainly going to collapse, wouldn’t it be wonderful, she asked, if all Christians, Jews, and Muslims exiled during Gamal Abdel Nasser’s fiercely anti-Western and anti-Semitic years were finally …