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    The Hurva Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת החורבה, translit: Beit ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid...
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    Tel Aviv University The synagogue of Kherson, Ukraine Or Zaruaa Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1926. The Hurva Synagogue towered over the Jewish...
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    fought the Arab Legion as part of the battle for Jerusalem, and the Hurva synagogue was blown up by Arab legionnaires. On May 1948, the Jewish Quarter...
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    Middle Synagogue, aka Kahal Tzion Synagogue Hsidi Brsilv Synagogue [he] Hurva Synagogue (English: Ruined Synagogue) is the currently largest synagogue in...
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    much of it severely damaged in the war, together with synagogues such as the Hurva Synagogue, which had also been used as a military base in the conflict...
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    fighting. The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue was destroyed first, which was followed by the destruction of famous Hurva Synagogue built in 1701, first time destroyed...
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    entrance can be reached from a staircase leading down from the Hurva Synagogue. The synagogue's prayer hall has an elongated and slightly trapeze-like shape...
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    Sephardic Synagogues are a complex of four adjoining synagogues located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four synagogues include...
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    of Israel in centuries. His disciples built the Hurva Synagogue, which served as the main synagogue in Jerusalem from the 18th century until 1948, when...
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    The Jerusalem Great Synagogue (Hebrew: בֵּית הַכְּנֶסֶת הַגָּדוֹל בּיְרוּשָׁלַיִם), is located at 56 King George Street, Jerusalem. As early as 1923 the...
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    citizen in 1999. Rabinovich was a supporter of efforts to restore the Hurva Synagogue, for which a square was named after him after he was mistakenly believed...
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  • area. The company engaged in a project for the restoration of the Hurva Synagogue, which was built at the beginning of the 18th century and served as...
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    dedication of the reconstructed Hurva Synagogue, also destroyed in 1948, plans were announced by the same donors who sponsored the Hurva rebuilding, to rebuild...
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    Arts Campus vision, Kahn's only theatre and building in the Midwest Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel, (1968–1974), unbuilt Yale Center for British Art...
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    July 1920, he was invited to read the haftarah from Isaiah 40 at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, which, according to his memoirs, led the congregation...
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    had been annulled. The perushim could then reclaim ownership of the Hurva Synagogue and its surrounding courtyard and homes, sites that were historically...
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    Shlomo Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Old Motza Synagogue Or Zaruaa Synagogue Rabbi Dr. I. Goldstein Synagogue Ramban...
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    including sites such as the Burnt House, the Temple Institute, and the Hurva Synagogue. Stone vessels A rare glass vessel, indicating the wealth of the neighborhood's...
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    Independence war; the ground floor with the cenotaph was converted into a synagogue, and the Muslim cover on the cenotaph was replaced with an Israeli flag...
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    Shlomo Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Old Motza Synagogue Or Zaruaa Synagogue Rabbi Dr. I. Goldstein Synagogue Ramban...
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    Pennsylvania) by Frank Lloyd Wright and the proposed redesign of the Hurva Synagogue by Louis Kahn. Mario Botta had designed the building for the San Francisco...
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    subsequent Mi sheberakh, a blessing for the leaders and patrons of the synagogue. In the Western Ashkenazic rite, the Mi sheberakh is omitted on the Shabbat...
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    1859, took a world tour to raise money for the reconstruction of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the Muslim authorities in...
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  • built the Hurva Synagogue and incurred debts doing so. In 1720, due to failure to repay the debts, Arab creditors broke into the synagogue, set it on...
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    earliest digs by Israeli archaeologists, the Beit Alfa Synagogue is an ancient Byzantine-era synagogue, constructed in the 5th century CE, which features...
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    profanation of Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives and the destruction of synagogues in the Old City – actions carried out, presumably, with the tacit permission...
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    a procession through the streets of Jerusalem, on the steps of the Hurva Synagogue he turned and said: "We cannot agree to the White Paper. Just as the...
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    Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It stands adjacent to the Hurva and Ramban Synagogues. After Israel captured East Jerusalem, including the Old City...
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  • is still to come upon the Jews." Following the rededication of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem in March 2010, senior Hamas figure al-Zahar called on...
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    remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible." The Hurva Synagogue, originally built in 1701, was blown up by the Jordanian Arab Legion...
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