Only 12 Jews remain in Egypt, the remnant of a community of some 100,000 that lived there until the 1950s, the community’s leader said. “We are dying, we are drowning, we are finished,” Jewish community head Magda Haroun told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Sept. 18. Haroun told the BBC that her “first…
(JTA) — When Magda Haroun was out on the streets during the unrest now rocking Egypt’s capital, she saw someone standing over the body of a dead soldier. “Not even a Jew would do this,” she heard him say. Haroun, the president of the Egyptian Jewish community, doesn’t enjoy hearing anti-Semitic slurs on the street….
Egypt’s Jewish community has elected a new leader, Magda Haroun. The announcement on Tuesday follows the death of former Jewish community head Carmen Weinstein on April 13, after leading the community for more than 20 years. “My goal is to preserve the cultural heritage of the Egyptian Jews so that when we are gone, it…
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