- However, it was then that the rich rabbi, Ben Ezra bought the temple and turned it back into a synagogue.
- Although few Jews now remain in Cairo, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and Geniza are among the most visited and treasured Jewish sites in Egypt.
- Located directly behind the hanging church, Ben Ezra Synagogue was originally a church built in the 8th century, named El Shamieen Church.
- After the l967 war, the Arabs severely damaged Ben Ezra Synagogue. ... “But a Rabbi does come from Israel for the High Holidays”, I’m told.
- Shivtei Yeshuron Ezras Israel subsequently absorbed the members of six other area synagogues that closed between 1970 and 1983.
- Congregation Ezras Israel has daily minyanim Shacharit, Mincha and Maariv. ... The Synagogue Security Council of North America.
- Ben Ezra Synagogue includes a Geniza (a storage area in a Jewish synagogue) in which many Jewish documents were found.Bulunamadı: israel
- Accordingly, the Ben Ezra Synagogue functions now as a tourist attraction and museum, rather than as a functioning congregation."
- The Ben Ezra Synagogue was also known as Knesset Eliyahu or Knesset Ezra, and Kanīsat al-Yerushalmim or Kanīsat al-Shāmiyyīn during the Middle Ages.