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The Future of the ONCE & PRESENT "Ruin"
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"The Hurva" synagogue in Jerusalem - started, abandoned, destroyed, rebuilt, and razed again - is about to undergo a "new-old" resurrection.
VISITORS TO THE JEWISH QUARTER HERE (KNOWN IN HEBREW AS "harova") can't help but notice the old-new Hurva Synagogue now under construction. When completed in two years it will be the largest and most prominent building in the rova.
The distinctive structure, with its landmark dome, was Jerusalem's main Ashkenazi house of prayer from 1864 un...
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Problems at home
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Residents fight to keep city square green
Jerusalem Post
; ... Jerusalem Post 07-13-2001 Headline: Residents fight to keep city square green Byline: Shoshana Kordova Edition; In Jerusalem Section: News Page: 03 Friday, July 13, 2001 -- Residents might be winning the battle to preserve the few patches of green in Kikar Hurva of ...
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'Little miracles' save Israeli from bombing
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; ... phone was ringing. It was her daughter-in-law, Betya, with the news that Ya'akov had called. He was OK. Ruth, who hadn't yet heard ... it to work every day. Although he's consciously avoided most news sources since the bombing, he says he recognized several of the ...
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Jewish Quarter Residents React
Jerusalem Post
; ... Geller Jerusalem Post 01-05-2001 Headline: Jewish Quarter Residents React Byline: Doron Geller Edition; In Jerusalem Section: News Page: 12 Friday, January 5, 2001 -- Sarah Rigler fears for her family's safety because she lives on Ararat Street, part of which ...
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Prague Jewish Quarter flooded
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; 00-00-0000 Headline: Prague Jewish Quarter flooded Byline: HAIM SHAPIRO Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 04 Friday, August 16, 2002 -- Residents of Prague's Old Town and Jewish Quarter are being told they will not be allowed to ...
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Jerusalem: The Jewish Quarter
Jewish Exponent
; Jewish Exponent 01-31-2002 Within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem is the Jewish Quarter, where Jews have lived since the time of the First Temple. Today, it is a modern neighborhood filled with homes, synagogues and yeshivot. It was rebuilt after the Six-Day War, after Israel unified
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REINVENTING JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH QUARTER AFTER 1967
Middle East
; REINVENTING JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH QUARTER AFTER 1967 By Simone Ricca published by IB TAURIS ISBN 1 84511 387 2 price 45.00 hardback The Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today seems like an organic fusion of a modern Israeli city with an ancient Jewish heritage. However, as
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Renovations planned for Old City's Jewish Quarter
Jerusalem Post
; ELLI WOHLGELERNTER Jerusalem Post 10-31-1997 A blueprint is being developed for a major renovation of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. It includes plans to reopen a sealed gate in the Old City wall some 50 meters east of Zion Gate. The plan, initiated by Deputy Housing Minister Meir
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The Jewish ghetto as history. (reminiscence of the old Jewish quarter of Boskovice, Czech Republic)
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; I first visited Boskovice, in the Czech Republic, in 1990. The Communists had been ousted less than a year before, and this town in the wooded hills north of Brno, the capital of Moravia, was still waking up to the fact. I seemed to be the only foreign visitor that brilliant October day. Not many
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March through Prague's Jewish quarter banned
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; March through Prague's Jewish quarter banned From Journal Sentinel wire reports Sunday, January 12, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic -- Authorities issued a last-minute ban Saturday of a right-wing extremist group's planned march through Prague's Jewish quarter, an official said. The decision came after
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