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Judaism Unassessed

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20th century expulsions

The paragraph on the expulsion of Jews from Egypt from 1956 on, leading the section on "The synagogue in ruins", seems to me like it could leave the article open to accusations of coatracking. While we do need to mention the Jewish community's departure here, I think this could be kept quite brief, with a link to the relevant part of our History of the Jews in Egypt article. All of the paragraph's content seems to be covered there. --Avenue (talk) 10:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I will change it.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

It was changed. Any better now?--Mbz1 (talk) 15:08, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, the length and content seems much more appropriate for this article now. I've revised it a bit further too. -- Avenue (talk) 15:22, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Avenue. Please do feel free to change contest of the article the way you feel is better.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced claim & irrelevant source

I removed the following:

In August 2009 the head of antiquities unveiled the plans of the restoration and at the same time denied that the restoration was planned to lower Jewish anger over Culture Minister ]'s remarks, in which he declared "I'd burn Israeli books myself if I found any in libraries in Egypt."<ref name=WSJ>{{cite news |title=Being Farouk Hosni |url=http://wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121391561586690093.html |newspaper=] |date=20 June 2008 |accessdate=26 September 2009}}</ref>.

The Wall Street Journal editorial is entirely about Farouk Hosni; it makes no mention whatsoever of the Maimonides Synagogue. As such the statement that the head of antiquities denied that the restoration was due to anger about Hosni is unsupported. The statement should be removed until a reliable source supporting it can be found. I see no purpose for the WSJ editorial in the article since it does not mention the synagogue at all. Factomancer (talk) 11:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

A supporting source for this was already cited elsewhere in our article; it just was not cited in that passage. I've restored the deleted passage, and cited the supporting source there too. I have kept the WSJ citation, since their piece provides the exact quote, and the other source does not. --Avenue (talk) 12:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Improvement

Can somebody add an infobox, photos (if there's any free ones) and maybe expand a little about the synagogue itself (History, architecture, etc.) I'd do it myself, by I have little knowledge about it. Yazan (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I've no free images. I put almost everything I could find on the building itself.--Mbz1 (talk) 04:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Changing the name of the section

It is not right to call the section present state because it is not the present state. The synagogue was restored. Any suggestion what would be the right name to use?--Mbz1 (talk) 17:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I think the division into tradition and more recent events still makes sense. I've changed the section's heading to "Recent history", and added another subsection heading for its decline. --Avenue (talk) 21:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Great, thank you!--Mbz1 (talk) 22:01, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

photos

There are some photos of the dedication ceremony here. I don't know what their policy about sharing pictures is, though. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 08:27, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, No More Mr Nice Guy. There are quite a few images on the NET. The problem is they have no free license. I might try to contact somebody, and ask, if they could release an image with a free license. --Mbz1 (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Undue Weight

I have waited for almost a week before posting this, but it seems the article is not really addressing that. The section about the Inauguration Controversy should be cut down because it's an obvious breach of undue weight. In an article about a synagogue that is more than a 1,000 years old, there's not a word about its history, or architecture, yet almost half the article is about an event that happened a few weeks ago (and not so very notable event, it's not like it was a diplomatic crisis or anything). Anybody cares to address that? Yazan (talk) 06:59, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

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