{"id":424421,"date":"2010-03-13T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-7569227503019358444"},"modified":"2010-03-13T07:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:33:36","slug":"egypt-to-pay-for-restoration-of-synagogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/424421","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to pay for restoration of synagogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9EB8K100\">Google \/ AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country&#8217;s Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo&#8217;s ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Farouk Hosny said in a statement that his ministry views Jewish sites as much a part of Egypt&#8217;s culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches and the restorations would not require any foreign funding.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Ben Maimon synagogue, named after the 12th century rabbi and intellectual Maimonides, was rededicated in a ceremony that included half a dozen Egyptian Jewish families that long ago fled the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hosny committed his ministry to restoring all 11 synagogues across Egypt, three of which have already been renovated.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-7569227503019358444?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google \/ AFP Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country&#8217;s Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo&#8217;s ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private ceremony. Farouk Hosny said in a statement that his ministry views Jewish sites as much a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}