Article: Out of the ruins: Restoration of Jerusalem's historic Hurva synagogue speeds ahead. Site where Herzl, Kook and Jabotinsky spoke is now being returned to former glory

Article: A living museum
Jerusalem Post;  May 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......2007 -- The Hurva Synagogue once dominated...and the entire Jewish Quarter were systematically...director-general of the Jewish Quarter Development Company...to destroy the Hurva Synagogue; [they did it...parking lots in the Jewish Quarter. According ...

Article: Problems at home
Jerusalem Post;  July 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......through the Old City, an 80-year-old Jewish Quarter resident was returning by taxi from...leading from the Jaffa Gate to the Jewish Quarter. The exhausted, ailing man asked...out and walk from Jaffa Gate to the Jewish Quarter. He was hospitalized the following...May 14, without ...

Article: The Future of the ONCE & PRESENT "Ruin"
Chicago Jewish Star;  November 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ..."The Hurva" synagogue in Jerusalem...VISITORS TO THE JEWISH QUARTER HERE (KNOWN IN...notice the old-new Hurva Synagogue now under construction...they captured the Jewish Quarter redoubt during...synagogues in the Jewish Quarter were destroyed...to rebuild the ...

Article: Residents fight to keep city square green
Jerusalem Post;  July 13, 2001 ;     546 words ......patches of green in Kikar Hurva of the Jewish Quarter. Jerusalem may be renowned for its...sand-colored stone, but some residents of the Jewish Quarter want a greener landscape. Thanks to...says Ruth Baks, who has lived in the Jewish Quarter for over 20 years. Baks didn't discover...

Article: A fraction of the problem
Jerusalem Post;  December 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......damper on the real- estate market, the Jewish Quarter seems to have turned the corner. Tourism...many long-time residents claim the Jewish Quarter is still far from being on the high...Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter was established by the Government of...

Article: Jewish Quarter Residents React
Jerusalem Post;  January 5, 2001 ;     507 words ......Jerusalem Post 01-05-2001 Headline: Jewish Quarter Residents React Byline: Doron Geller...Wall which all Jewish women in the Jewish Quarter have been asked to take part. Nissim...to the point where residents of the Jewish Quarter begin to leave the Old City. As educational...

Article: Recollections of '48
Jerusalem Post;  April 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ......Rosnak, the last officer in command of the Jewish Quarter, signed the capitulation decree of the neighborhood...residents left, walking in a row toward the Jewish Quarter and the Old City and marched toward Zion...Luz, then 11 years old, a resident of the Jewish Quarter who now lives ...

Article: Prague Jewish Quarter flooded
Jerusalem Post;  August 16, 2002 ;     400 words ...00-00-0000 Headline: Prague Jewish Quarter flooded Byline: HAIM SHAPIRO Edition...Residents of Prague's Old Town and Jewish Quarter are being told they will not be allowed...local Habad rabbi. The situation in the Jewish Quarter is that there is no electricity, no...

Article: Jerusalem: The Jewish Quarter
Jewish Exponent;  January 31, 2002 ;     628 words ...Jewish Exponent 01-31-2002 Within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem is the Jewish Quarter, where Jews have lived since the time of the...the east part of the Old City, including the Jewish Quarter. Jews were forbidden to live there, and much...Parallel to the Kardo is HaYehudim Street ...

Article: Government to build 16 new towns, rebuild Jerusalem's Hurva synagogue
Jerusalem Post;  July 22, 2002 ;     516 words ......16 new towns, rebuild Jerusalem's Hurva synagogue Byline: GIL HOFFMAN Edition; Daily...Sharansky's - to rebuild the famed Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The decision...de Rothschild. Two days after the Jewish Quarter fell to the Jordanian ...

Article: City women
Jerusalem Post;  May 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......May 3, 2002 -- For Hanna Sperber, the Jewish Quarter is paradise. She walks through the...Israel. Then she decided to move to the Jewish Quarter, and turned religious after one delightful...rubble of the desecrated and demolished Jewish Quarter. I felt the words of the prophet ...

Article: REINVENTING JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH QUARTER AFTER 1967
Middle East;  October 1, 2007 ;     185 words ...REINVENTING JERUSALEM: ISRAEL'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH QUARTER AFTER 1967 By Simone Ricca published by IB TAURIS ISBN 1 84511 387 2 price 45.00 hardback The Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today seems like an organic fusion of...However, as this book details, the aesthetics of the Jewish ...

Article: My Jerusalem jogging track
Jerusalem Post;  May 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ......Coming through Zion Gate, the Jewish Quarter's lifeline blocked in 1948...Sudan's Darfuris today. IN THE JEWISH Quarter, I vary my route. Sometimes...and sacred Christian, Muslim, Jewish sites jutting into the air. Sometimes, I pass the majestic Hurva Synagogue, its new dome ...

Article: Buried history uncovered
Jerusalem Post;  September 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ......09-30-1999 If you were to walk through the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City with great...would be to peel up the entire modern Jewish Quarter and the masses of archaeological fill...Rehov Hakaraim just east of the central Jewish Quarter square. With a descent of three meters...