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Connecting Past and Future

Posted on June 6, 2021

This week’s Real Jerusalem Streets features the rebuilding of the Schneller Compound (see here previously) which will house a new interactive museum to feature historic and current Jewish communities from around the world. http://rjstreets.com/2021/05/30/schneller-compound-connecting-past-and-future/

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New Jerusalem museum

Posted on November 8, 2020

Jerusalem’s Beit Hakehillot museum under construction will take visitors on a tour of Jewish history, using multimedia and virtual reality, plus Jewish ritual objects and manuscripts. The $50 million renovation of an abandoned Protestant orphanage is Jerusalem’s largest landmark renovation … Continue reading →

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Under the feet of the British army

Posted on March 6, 2016

The British expelled the Germans from the Schneller orphanage in WW2. The British army base was then replaced by an Israeli one in 1948. Current excavations of the site have revealed a 2nd-Temple-period mikva (Jewish ritual bath), Roman baths and … Continue reading →

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