Lighting Chanukah Candels in Cairo (2006)

One of the last services in the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Maariv followed by lighting of the nerot.

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• Chanukah

[jbr483]

its the same thing. egyptian jews were loyal, patriotic, many died for the state fighting the british. what happened was wrong. egypt and the arab world lost their best allies and soldiers in dealing with israel and in general when they kicked out their jewish populatons.

[jbr483]

dark, don't justify ethnic cleansing. just because two jews were bribed to act how they did doesn't mean that even 10% of jews in egypt felt like they did. should the USA kick out all muslims because two americans were killed by islamic fanatics in indoensia?

[jbr483]

Some of the people in the room are those that came to see their homeland one last time. One women came from Brazil and has cancer and she was crying the entire service. She flew back for the holiday becuase she is dying and wants to see Egypt and the beit knesset (masjid al yahud) before she dies that she grew up in.

The occasion was happy but it was also really sad.

[jbr483]

They are bitter at their children for leaving the land that they loved and died for and whose family had lived for thousands of years anddepressed that their ancient community, a community that predates the the prophet Muhammad will be gone with in a decade or two. They are bitter at Israel, and they are bitter with the government of Egypt for taking all their money.

[jbr483]

No one remembers that nearly one million Arab-Jews fled as refugees the Arab world because some non-Jewish Arabs forget that there was a huge difference between Judaism and Zionism and took out their anger on Zionism on the local non-Zionist Jewish populations. The old Jews who make up the last of Egyptian Arab Jewry and live in Cairo and Alexandria are old, and bitter.

[jbr483]

It is their heart, their passion and their dream. Many of them would love to go back and see their homeland before they die but are afraid to go back because they left for fear of their lives and only the shirts on their back.

[taano71]

would be greadful to see arab & jews brotherhood.

[HumanRightsWatcher]

Hope one day Egyptian Jews will come back home...

[massimo38]

@am1966ath Dear friend forgive me I don't really remember my comments if you

be kind , Can you tell me what Nasser said about the Jews ?

I'll be very happy to hear from you .

[am1966ath]

@massimo38 No the jews of Egypt just left, leaving behind everything they owned??

after 3000years? Have you heard what Nasser said about the jews?

[FelahMinBulaq]

ehhh the problem with jews in egypt IS CUZZ THEY MAKE ISRAEL STATE BEFORE ISRAEL MY GRANDMOTHER SAID MY THAT THEY LIVE BEFORE IN PEACE IN EGYPT THEY WAS LIVE TOGETHER IN THE SAME BLOK....everythink get bad cuzz zionist :/

[FelahMinBulaq]

u r not right yes this jews from egypt are Semitic real jews but egyptian and jews are very semilar semilar than arab an egyptian so thats why ....and we also mixed too with jews turkish gree romanian :)

Sam/shalom/peace

[mdahab86]

im muslim, Nopian Egyptian wanna Jewish (egyptian) return to their home

[MissAngelazzurro]

May we say "Jews from Egypt" and not egyptian Jews? Thanks.

Massimo, were you in Egypt about 50 years ago? Some have been captured and torturated. Then expelled. Most of Jews left Egypt leaving there all what they got.

Shadyemad, I wouldn't say that Jews from Egypt was Israeli, they became :-) and Jews are not egyptians, just Jews. No matter where they are coming from.

Shalom

[ZionistOpressor]

they are already at home :)

[shadyemad]

they don't do Alia coz they are Egyptian not Israeli

[BernardoD]

Thanks!!

[lukamamatoto]

Synagogue Ben Ezra, Cairo, Egypt