Wikipedia's first sentence called it “site of an ancient jewish village in northern israel”. Today it says “archaeological ruins of two former ancient jewish synagogues”.
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Kfar Bar'am Synagogue ( Hebrew : כְּפַר בַּרְעָם ), also known as the Kafar Berem Synagogue , is the archaeological ruins of two former ancient Jewish synagogues , located at the site of Kafr Bir'im , a former Palestinian Christian village , in what is today the Bar'am National Park . The synagogue is in the Galilee region of the Northern District of Israel , approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the border with Lebanon . It is estimated that the former synagogue was completed in the 3rd century, during the Roman period , likely by c. 220 CE , and was located in the medieval Jewish village of Kfar Bar'am. The façade of the 3rd-century synagogue faces south, towards Jerusalem, as the custom of most synagogues, and was replete with a covered portico containing six stone columns. It was first identified as a synagogue in modern times in 1852 – along with other similar remains in Galilee – by Edward Robinson in his Biblical Researches in Palestine . In Yitzhaki, Arieh (ed.). Israel Guide - Upper Galilee, Huleh Basin and Jordan Source Region (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew). It must be remembered that the first of those to identify 'house of assembly' remains in the Land of Israel in the modern age was the American theologian, E. Robinson , considered to be the "father of the study of the Land of Israel"
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Ruins of synagogue in 2009 The site of the synagogue, now a National Park, lies above the kibbutz of Bar'am . Kfar Baram ( ), also Kafr Bir'im or Kafar Berem , is the site of an ancient Jewish village in Northern Israel , 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border. An ancient Hebrew inscription from one of the village synagogues reads: "Peace be upon the place, and on all the places of Israel."
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Kfar Baram ( ), is the site of an ancient Jewish village, later the site of Kafr Bir'im or Kafar Berem , an ancient Maronite Christian village.It is in Northern Israel , 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border.
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Kfar Baram ( ), is the site of an ancient Jewish village. It is situated near to the site of Kafr Bir'im or Kafar Berem , a medieval Maronite Christian village.Today, it is located in Northern Israel , 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border.
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Kfar Baram synagogue ( ), also Kafar Berem synagogue , is the ruins of two ancient Jewish synagogues at the site of Kafr Bir'im , a depopulated Palestinian village which in medieval times was the Jewish village of Kfar Bar'am. Today, it is located in Northern Israel , 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border. The façade of the 3rd-century synagogue faces south, towards Jerusalem, as the custom of most synagogues, and was replete with a covered portico containing six stone columns.It was first identified as a synagogue in modern times in 1852 – along with other similar remains in Galilee – by Edward Robinson in his Biblical Researches in Palestine .In Arieh Yitzhaki (ed.).Israel Guide - Upper Galilee, Huleh Basin and Jordan Source Region (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew).It must be remembered that the first of those to identify 'house of assembly' remains in the Land of Israel in the modern age was the American theologian, E.Robinson, considered to be the "father of the study of the Land of Israel"
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site of an ancient jewish village in northern israel
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archaeological ruins of two former ancient jewish synagogues
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