Situated in “Old Cairo,” the historic Ben Ezra Synagogue was the longtime home of the famed “Cairo Genizah,” a storeroom discovered in the 19th century containing Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic secular and sacred manuscripts. (File photo)

Separating the Sacred from the Mundane

Most synagogues have a room or designated closet called genizot, from the Hebrew “to hide” or “put away,” now defined as “storage.”

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