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Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to: * Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God Sinai may also refer to: * Sinai, South Dakota, a place in the United States * Sinai (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * ''Sinai'' (Noguchi), a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi * ''Sinai'', a game by SPI * ''Sinai'', a 19th-century monthly Jewish magazine in German by David Einhorn * Sinai School, a Jewish primary school in London, England *''Sinai'', one of two tram cars on the Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles, U.S. See also * * * Mount Sinai (other) * Temple Sinai (other) * Sinai Hospital (other) * Saini, a caste of North India * Shenoy, a surname sometime written as "Sinai" in Goa, India * Siani (other) * Sin (mythology) * Sina (other) Sina may refer to: Relating to China * Chin (China), or Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblical Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai (, ''Har Sīnay'') is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible. In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered by scholars to refer to the same place. The location of the Mount Sinai described in the Bible remains disputed. The high point of the dispute was in the mid-nineteenth century. Hebrew Bible texts describe the theophany at Mount Sinai in terms which a minority of scholars, following Charles Beke (1873), have suggested may literally describe the mountain as a volcano. Mount Sinai is one of the most sacred locations in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Biblical description The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19–24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in . In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (now usually ) (, , cop, Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Africa. Sinai has a land area of about (6 percent of Egypt's total area) and a population of approximately 600,000 people. Administratively, the vast majority of the area of the Sinai Peninsula is divided into two governorates: the South Sinai Governorate and the North Sinai Governorate. Three other governorates span the Suez Canal, crossing into African Egypt: Suez Governorate on the southern end of the Suez Canal, Ismailia Governorate in the center, and Port Said Governorate in the north. In the classical era the region was known as Arabia Petraea. The peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to the assumption that a mountain near Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai ( he , הר סיני ''Har Sinai''; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), traditionally known as Jabal Musa ( ar, جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mount Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is possibly the location of the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments. It is a , moderately high mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks in the mountain range of which it is a part. For example, it lies next to Mount Catherine which, at , is the highest peak in Egypt. Geology Mount Sinai's rocks were formed during the late stage of the evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Mount Sinai displays a ring complex that consists of alkaline granites intruded into diverse rock types, including volcanics. The granites range in composition from syenogranite to alkali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai School
Sinai Jewish Primary School is a large three form entry voluntary aided modern orthodox Jewish primary school, under the auspices of the United Synagogue and is situated in Kenton in the London Borough of Brent. It is a co-educational primary school for up to 690 children aged 3–11. The school includes a nursery. It is the largest Jewish primary school in Europe. In addition to the name Michael Sobell Sinai School, the school is widely known and colloquially referred to as Sinai School. History The Michael Sobell Sinai School started life as the Bayswater Jewish School, founded by members of the Bayswater Synagogue for the children of “poorer brethren”. Originally based at St James's Terrace, Harrow Road, the school opened its doors in 1866 at 1 Westbourne Park Villas. Eleven years later it moved to a new building in Harrow Road in 1879, and by the year 1903 it had accommodation large enough for and educated 419 pupils. In 1902, 222 of its pupils took part in the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (other)
Temple Sinai or Sinai Temple may refer to: * Temple Sinai (Oakland, California), U.S. * Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado), U.S. *Temple Sinai (New Orleans, Louisiana), U.S. * Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina), U.S. * Temple Sinai (Houston), Texas, U.S. * Temple Sinai (Newport News, Virginia), U.S. * Temple Sinai (Portsmouth, Virginia), U.S. * Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa), U.S. *Sinai Temple (Los Angeles), California, U.S. * Sinai Temple (Springfield, Massachusetts), U.S. * Temple De Hirsch Sinai, formerly Temple Sinai, Bellevue, Washington, U.S. *Temple Emanuel Sinai (Worcester, Massachusetts) Temple Emanuel Sinai (Hebrew: עִמָנוּאֵל סִינַי, ''God is with us Sinai'') is a medium-sized Reform (progressive) Jewish synagogue located in Worcester, Massachusetts, New England's second largest city (population 206,518). A pro ..., U.S*Temple Sinai (Saratoga Springs, New York), U.S.">Temple Sinai (Saratoga Springs, New York)">*Temple Sinai (Saratoga Springs, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai (other)
Mount Sinai is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Mount Sinai may also refer to: * Mount Sinai (Bible), where, according to the Bible, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments Places * Mount Sinai, Indiana, U.S. * Mount Sinai, New York, U.S. Other uses * Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute, Miami, Florida, U.S. * Mount Sinai Memorial Park (Toronto), Canada * Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California U.S. * Mount Sinai Jewish Center, New York City, New York, U.S. * Mount Sinai School, Alabama, U.S. * Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eig ..., now Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, U.S. * Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa), U.S. See also * Mount Sinai Cemetery (other), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai Hospital (other)
Sinai Hospital may refer to: * South Sinai Hospital, Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt * Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA * Sinai Hospital (Detroit), Michigan, USA * Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce Township, Michigan, USA * Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), New York City, New York, USA * Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA * Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; a hospital system * Sinai Chicago Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly at times known as Mount Sinai Medical Center, is a 319-bed major urban hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglass Park at 15th Street and California Avenue on the city's West Sid ..., Chicago, Illinois, USA; a hospital system See also * * * Jewish Hospital (other) * Mount Sinai Hospital (other) * Sinai (other) {{hospital disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Flight
Angels Flight is a landmark and historic narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named ''Olivet'' and ''Sinai'', that run in opposite directions on a shared cable. The tracks cover a distance of over a vertical gain of . The funicular has operated on two different sites, using the same cars and station elements. The original Angels Flight location, with trackage along the side of Third Street Tunnel and connecting Hill Street and Olive Street, operated from 1901 until it was closed in 1969, when its site was cleared for redevelopment. The second Angels Flight location opened one half block south of the original location in 1996, mid-block between 3rd and 4th Streets, with tracks connecting Hill Street and California Plaza. It was shut down in 2001, following a fatal accident, and took nine years to commence operations again. The railroad restarted operations on March 15, 2010. It was clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai (surname)
Sinai is a surname. It is a Portuguese-style spelling of the Konkani surname Shenoy or Shannai. This spelling originated from Goa on the West Coast of India. It is also an Arabic and Hebrew surname and masculine given name derived from Mount Sinai. In the United States, the 2010 Census found 367 people with the surname Sinai, making it the 55,841st-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 277 people (66,676th-most common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about eight-tenths of the bearers of this surname identified as white, one-tenth as Hispanic, and three percent as Asian. The Sinai families in India belong to the Brahmin caste. People Notable people with this surname include: * Narana Sinai Coissoró (born 1933), Portuguese politician of Goan origin *Yakov Sinai (born 1935), Russian mathematician *Khosrow Sinai (1941–2020), Iranian film director *Allen Sinai (), American economist *Moshe Sinai (born 1961), Israeli footballer *Avraham Sinai (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai, South Dakota
Sinai ( ) is a town in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 99 at the 2020 census. Located there are a grainery, a post office, a bank, and a church. Geography Sinai is located at (44.245039, -97.043380). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Sinai has been assigned the ZIP code 57061 and the FIPS place code 58900. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 120 people, 52 households, and 32 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 61 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 96.7% White, 0.8% Asian, and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.7% of the population. There were 52 households, of which 36.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.7% had a male householder with n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai (Noguchi)
''Sinai'' is a public artwork by the Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi, located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, which is near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. ''Sinai'' is a cast-iron sculpture measuring high, wide, and deep. It is part of a series of work created between the 1967 and 1969, during which time Noguchi was collaborating with the Japanese stone carver Masatoshi Izumi. Description ''Sinai'' is a cast iron sculpture (1 of 6 casts) typical of iron modernist art sculpture of the late 1960s. The sculpture consists of a circular biomorphic ring form with square protrusions on the upper half. The sculpture is a dark iron, almost black in appearance. Noguchi was heavily influenced by Constantin Brâncuși's simplified and reduced forms that get at the essence of materials because of their minimal handling. His body of work in this time period is enigmatic; it becomes difficult to discern what the forms are or from where their inspiration was manifested. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Einhorn (rabbi)
David Einhorn (November 10, 1809November 2, 1879) was a German rabbi and leader of Reform Judaism in the United States. Einhorn was chosen in 1855 as the first rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore, the oldest congregation in the United States that has been affiliated with the Reform movement since its inception. While there, he created an early American prayer book for the congregation that became one of the progenitors of the 1894 '' Union Prayer Book''. In 1861, Einhorn was forced to flee to Philadelphia, where he became rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel. He moved to New York City in 1866, where he became rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel. Early years He was born in Diespeck, Kingdom of Bavaria, on November 10, 1809, to Maier and Karoline Einhorn. He was educated at the rabbinical school of Fürth, where he earned his rabbinical ordination at age 17. He then studied at the universities of Erlangen, Munich and Würzburg, where he studied from 1828 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
