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Jewish Community of Cairo chief Carmen Weinstein dismissed in an interview any link between the Jewish community in Egypt and Israel, adding that Egypt is a safe country and its leader is wise and deals most sagaciously with the Middle East.
Legal experts say the Jews are not entitled to claim compensation for their property in Egypt on the legal grounds that claims must be made within 15 years of the original loss.
The author recounts the history of the Jewish ghetto in Old Cairo and the synagogues in Egypt, as well as the activities of Jews who used to inhabit that ghetto.
The author, in this introduction to a few articles dealing with Egyptian Jews, reviews the influence practiced by the Israeli lobby in the United States on American policymakers, namely through the US Religious Freedoms Committee.
Minister of foreign affairs Ahmad Abu al-Ghayt has told the People’s Assembly that the Egyptian Foreign Ministry respects the ruling of the Administrative Court, banning an annual Jewish festival held at the shrine of a holy Jewish man in al-Buhayra.
Ihāb ‘Abd al-Hamīd writes that unlike the Jews of pre-1948 Europe, Jews in Egypt lived side by side with Muslims and Christians and assumed positions of influence in a number of Egyptian ministries.
The Alexandria Administrative Court nullified the decision of the Minister of Culture, which classified the shrine of Abu Hasera and the Jewish cemetery next to it among Islamic and Coptic antiquities. As a result, the celebrations of the mulid of Abu Hasera, which takes place from the 25th of...
The report of the Authority of State Commissioners on the lawsuit of the mulid of Abu Hassera in Behara ordered the cancellation of the annual celebration of the mulid and nullified the decision of the Minister of Culture, which categorized the shrine of the Rabbi Abu Hasera and the Jewish...
The author comments on the activities of the “Jewish Association of Egyptian Jews,” based in New York. The association works for reclaiming the possessions of Egyptian Jews.
Sawt al-Umma reports that the Shaykh of the Azhar has accepted an invitation to attend the Hanukah celebration in Egypt, while on the same day, Rose al-Yousuf publishes the Azhar’s denial of the news.

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