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Treasure trove of ancient documents in Cairo genizah: One hundred
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Cleveland Jewish News
11-29-1996
Treasure trove of ancient documents in Cairo genizah: One hundred years. ago, Solomon Schechter unveiled this treasury of Judaic literature.
One hundred years ago, in the winter of 1896, Solomon Schechter, at that time a reader in Talmud studies at Cambridge University in England, crawled up a ladder into a doorless, windowless room at the rear of the women's gallery in the ancient Ben Ezra Synagogue of Fostat (Old Cairo) in Egy...
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Schechter Pioneers 'Transitional' Program
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; They show up in Jewish homes every year in December: four-sided spinning tops called dreidels that fit in a child's hand. They are made of clay, paper, or 21st-century plastic; each side is embossed with a Hebrew letter, and the four characters together form the abbreviation for Nes gadol hayah
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A High School Comes Of Age: Conservative Solomon Schechter of New York fills a niche (and fills up) as it settles into its new home.
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; Mendelsohn, Martha The Jewish Week 01-07-2000 A High School Comes Of Age: Conservative Solomon Schechter of New York fills a niche (and fills up) as it settles into its new home. MARTHA MENDELSOHN JEWISH WEEK CORRESPONDENT At the close of its fall semester, the Solomon Schechter High School of New
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HOLOCAUST PROJECT TEACHES SURVIVAL
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A Short History Of The Cairo Genizah
The New York Jewish Week
; A Short History Of The Cairo Genizah The history of the Cairo genizah dates back to a time when several different groups of Jews coexisted in relative harmony in Fostat, a major Egyptian city around the 11th century. There were the Karaites, Jews who rejected the Oral Law and had their own
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; `Lost' Jewish Texts To Get New Life: Priceless Hebrew and Judaic manuscripts from the Cairo genizah will finally be published under new multimillion-dollar project. ERIC J. GREENBERG STAFF WRITER While attending an American Jewish studies conference two years ago, Toronto businessman Albert Dov
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Of Bombs and Blessings
Forward
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