A Rabbi’s Passover in Nasser’s Prisons (Tablet)

Sherif Pasha Street, Alexandria. On the right, the Stock Exchange building, where 90% of the brokers were Egyptian Jews (1945).

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A Rabbi's Passover in Nasser's Prisons

Rabbi Albert Gabbai, a member of Cairo's Jewish community, was among the hundreds of Jews imprisoned under Nasser in the 1960s and spent Passover in a prison cell. Decades later, he reflects on what it means to have been a slave in Egypt.

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By Yisroel Green, Tablet Magazine, March 30, 2026. Opens in a new tab.

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