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The author of this article points out the different aspects of Jewish history in Egypt. The post-Camp David Israeli-Egyptian relations are often described as “cold peace.” This reconsideration of history is needed to stress the Arabs’ right to restore their dignity and not to keep pace with the...
Last year, Jews all over the world celebrated the 800th anniversary of the death of Jewish scholar Musa Ibn Maymun, who is universally considered the most important Jewish thinker in the last 2,000 years.
Writer Muhammad Abu al-Ghār has authored a book about Egyptian Jews, detecting their history from their very beginnings until their departure from Egypt. The book puts the number of Jews who lived in Egypt for several centuries at nearly 10,000 and most of them have lived in the Hāra al-Yahoud [...
Celebrating the Passover, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported an alliance of 20 organizations of the Jews from Egyptian origin, in Israel and around the world, on the demand to save the Jewish legacy in Cairo and Alexandria.
The article discusses the contents of the Jewish Cabala and the Gnostic concepts it dealt with. Among these concepts are allusions or concealment, divinity and transmigration.
Victor Nehemias, who spent half his life in Egypt and is now in his seventies, recently published a book called “The man who was born twice: The story of an Egyptian Jew who emigrated to Israel.” Nehemias writes that he is a victim of the Arab-Israeli conflict that transformed him from being an...
Jew Net Organization [see comment in full text], which supervises all the Jewish organizations, has stopped sending financial aid to the Jewish community in Egypt, because the community refused the organization’s request for the Torah manuscripts in Egypt. The organization also requested other...
The article gives an idea of the problems related to considering the alleged shrine of Rabbi Abu Hasera an ancient Jewish site that is to fall under the supervision of the Antiquities Department.
Jews in Egypt are made up of two main ethnic groups, Ashkenazim, Eastern European Jews, and Sefardim, Jews who lived in the East. The latter group is less sympathetic toward the Zionist movement, and they do not differ from the rest of the Egyptians in terms of language, dialect, features or...
The Supreme Administrative Court overturned the appeal of the Minister of Culture against an earlier verdict issued by the Alexandria Administrative Court which ordered the cancellation of the celebration of the mulid of Abu Hasera in Damanhour. It also decided that the shrine of Rabbi Abu Hasera...

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