Showing posts with label old city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old city. Show all posts

Friday, December 03, 2021

On Jerusalem's Old City Chabad Synagogue

When we lived in the Old City, a 90-second walk away was the Chabad Synagogue in which Rav Moshe Segal lived in the first year after the 1967 war, to reclaim it.

Here is its story in a new book I recently found:

 



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Monday, June 06, 2011

See That Hole in the Wall?

The one I have an arrow (sort of) pointing to:-


That's just above, to the left of the Dung Gate.

A new entrance in a wall 500-years old, almost. From the beginning of the Ottoman Empire conquest when the Turks were "occupiers".

Funny, this report claims the wall will not be breached.

Maybe it's a peep-hole?

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