In the Ostia Antica, the old port of Rome, an archeological park includes the majestic ruins of an ancient synagogue. Rome’s Jewish community, the oldest in Europe, dates to the second century B ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found ... “The history of the Jews of Rome is enriched today by another, precious monument that testifies to their thousand-year-old ...

Jews first settled in Rome not because they were enslaved but because of the thriving economy of the city in ancient times. According to Philo, Rome’s Jewish population only grew in the middle ...

An exhibition of objects highlighting the 2, 000-year history of Rome’s Jewish community has been opened for Passover in the Rome Synagogue. Exhibits include tombstones from the Jewish catacombs ...

Jews first came to Rome in the second century B.C., and inhabited ... Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first ...

Did Jewish gladiators even exist? It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome as it was that gladiators fought sharks, a key plot point of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator ...