An April article in El Saba has started popping up on other Arab sites about Jews who continue to live secretly in Egypt, pretending to be Christians.
The article was prompted by the story of Dina Ovadia, the IDF soldier who grew up in Alexandria without knowing that she was Jewish. After some fundamentalist Muslims attacked them, her family escaped.
El Saba looked for other secret Jews in Alexandria, and it found some.
Dr. Majid, a professor at a university in the city, says of his family growing up, “I remember when we were practicing religious rituals in silence, fearing that others will know that we are Jews, in the late forties, and in the beginning of Nasser’s rule, worried that we would be considered traitors to the homeland… the media and politicians took part in it.”
Majid’s grandfather went to a Catholic church and asked to change his religion for fear of attack on his house and store, and since then they worship in secret for fear of ostracism and persecution.
His mother created a miniature model synagogue in the family home as a place for her husband to worship.
He told his children that they are Jewish but that they are free to believe what they want.
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