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A Community Chronicle put out by the Jewish Community Council (JCC) of Cairo since 1995



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C A L E N D A R   OF   E V E N T S   2009


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ROSH HASHANAH
Friday, 18 September 2009 from 18:00
celebrated @ Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue, 17 Adly Street downtown Cairo
followed by a reception

1st day of Roshanna
Saturday, 19 September from 16.30 until 18:00 for the Shoffar
celebrated @ Meir Bitton Synagogue, Road 13 Maadi

YOM KIPPUR
Sunday, 27 September from 17:00 until 20:00
and
Monday, 28 September from 08:30 am to 18:30
celebrated @ Meir Bitton Synagogue, Road 13 Maadi
SUKKOT
Saturday, 3 October from 17:00
celebrated @ Meir Bitton Synagogue, Road 13 Maadi
SIMHA TORA
Saturday, 10 October from 17:30
celebrated @ Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue 17 Adly Street downtown Cairo

should you wish to attend any or both of the above with family and/or friends please email or call +201 0143-8037
or local mobile 010 143-8037 as soon as possible

  Date BASSATINE NEWS - Main Feature Story 
Go! October 1995 Bassatine... One Of The Oldest Jewish Cemeteries In The World
Go! July 1996 Grave Problems... Can They Be Resolved?
Go! September 1996 Dissident Members of Cairo Jewish Community Stage Palace Coup
Go! March 1997 Our Sefarims Belong Here ... Not In Brooklyn!!!
Go! July 1997 Ben Ezra Restored... How About a Jewish Artifacts Museum?
Go! November 1997 Jewish Studies Library Opens in Old Cairo
Go! March 1998 Living As A Jewish Student In Egypt
Go! June 1998 Old Cairo Braces For New Millennium Celebrations 
Go! September 1998 JCC Board celebrates 2nd anniversary... from London and Los Angeles... Haim Nahum Effendi
Go! December 1998 Multi-ethnic student group clean up Kreim Synagogue
Go! Special An Unfortunate Outcome
Go! Special April 1999 author historian Dr. Jacques Hassoun dies In Paris
Go! July 1999 The Elia Rossis... Hillary Clinton @ Ben Ezra; Congressman Benjamin Gilman @ Bassatine
Go! December 1999 ADLY SYNAGOGUE: What's in a name - Robert Nahman dies
Go! March 2000 JCC'S RESPONSE TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL article of March 15, 2000
Go! April 2000 DIGITIZING BASSATINE CEMETERY; MAX HERZ: FORGOTTEN PASHA; Akerib sisters evoke Dr. Glanz
Go! June 15 2000 President of Cairo Jewish Community decorated by Vatican
Go! September 2000 BASSATINE CEMETERY PART II - Thank you Denise Gani 
Go! April 2001 Chehata haroun... The Marek Report... Egypt honors Laila Mourad
Go! Summer 2003 Bar Mitzvahs @ Maadi - Danish Bishops @ Adly Synagogue - Mme. Politi remembered
Go! Spring 2004 From Mehalla El Kobra to Abou Kir - British International School @ Meyer Biton
Go! Spring 2005 A Cairo seder, Springtime at Bassatine Cemetery
Go! Winter 2006 Purim 2007 @ Maadi Temple - Glorice Weinstein Awarded - Leon Dichy
Go! SPECIAL 2007 SPECIAL ISSUE: CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF SHAAR HASHAMAYIM SYNAGOGUE
Go! WINTER - SPRING 2007-08 AUC Students visit Shaar Hashamayim; Madame Iman passes away; FULL HOUSE @ PASSOVER
Go! SUMMER 2008 Ahram Hebdo on Cairo Synagogues; Dr. Max Salama departs
Go! WINTER 2008 FROM THE OLD PRESS
Go! SUMMER 2009 Togo Mizrahi - Maimonides restoration attracts world media attention - clarification from the Alexandria Jewish Community - Leila Mourad's comeback

THE BASSATINE CEMETERY HAS BEEN "PARTIALLY" MAPPED AND DIGITIZED DURING SUMMER 2000. Check Aaron Kiviat's 
Friends of the Jews in Cairo

Carmen Weinstein + Hillary Clinton Carmen Weinstein + Senator Benjamin Gillman
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coverage of Bassatine Cemetery 18 October 2000

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