Sheila Kurtzer

Carmen Weinstein, Proud Jew and Dogged Defender of Egypt’s Dwindling Community

In 1980, soon after my family and I arrived in Cairo, where my husband, Dan, had been assigned as a political officer at the American Embassy, we were introduced to an elderly woman. Esther Weinstein was the nominal head of Egypt’s small Jewish community. Slight and slender, she was dressed meticulously, in blue from top…