50 Friday, November 28, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Concern Expressed for Ancient Egyptian Synagogues NEW YORK — Scholars and Jewish organizations are debating over what to do about Cairo, Egypt's 12 an- cient synagogues and the manuscripts and volumes they contain. According to the New York Times, the Ben-Ezra Synagogue, Cairo's oldest, was boarded up several months ago, partly because of alarming reports about thefts of valuable books and ornamental objects. In 1896, a rabbi there un- SAVE UP TO 60% ON DIAMONDS • We Sell Diamonds Only • By Appointment Only Call Jerry Tur4en at TM The NeW York Diamond Cutting Company "The Diamond Cutters" 3000 Town Center, Southfield, Michigan 355-2300 earthed a spectacular cache of biblical, liturgical and historical texts spanning 2,100 years. The documents found in the synagogue came to be known as the Cairo Geniza. They made a great contribution to Jewish scholarship. Some are in libraries throughout the world. While another discovery of such magnitude is highly unlikely, researchers fear that whatever does remain in Egypt's synagogues may be stolen, sold or allowed to decay. "The whole place is full of ripoffs," said Israel Singer, executive director of the North American branch of the World Jewish Congress. "People were going in there with $10 and walking out with whatever they wanted," said Moshe Cabasso, a senior official of the World Sephardi Federa- tion, an organization plan- ning to renovate the temple, first used in the Ninth Cen- tury. It has already spent $200,000 for refurbishing Cairo's only active synagogue, Shaar ha- Shamayim, visited by President Yitzhak Navon of Israel last month. Some critics charge that the money could be better spent elsewhere, noting that Shaar haShamayim, the showpiece of Cairo's Jews, is in relatively good condition. 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