The flowers — arrangements of roses of various colors and pink calla lilies, among others — were placed along the aisle of the Great Synagogue of Rome, on its bimah, on the Torah ark and ...

"Violence by man against man is in contradiction with any religion worthy of that name," Francis said at Rome's Great Synagogue. The pontiff has a history of strong relationships with the Jewish ...

Pope Francis crossed the Tiber River to visit Rome’s Great Synagogue Sunday. His 1.5-mile journey to the towering Tempio Maggiore shows that what was once unthinkable is now the norm.

At the Great Synagogue of Rome, workers are preparing for the pope's visit, but guided tours of the place of worship are still under way. Yael Calo', a guide at the synagogue, says Jews arrived in ...

Today, the Great Synagogue in Rome, known as the Tempio Maggiore, continues the tradition of the Bnei Roma, and the same prayers are recited with few changes. In modern-day Rome, the ghetto has ...

ROME (RNS) Pope Francis stressed the “irrevocability ... monotheistic religions,” Francis told a crowd filling the Great Synagogue just down the Tiber River from the Vatican.

When you think of Rome, the Pope and Vatican City often come to mind. But the Italian capital is also home to one of the most historic and vibrant Jewish quarters in Europe. Though Catholicism has ...

Rome’s Jewish community marked the centennial of its Great Synagogue, 60 years after a U.S. Jewish chaplain led services there for the first time since its liberation from the Nazis. ROME ...

Pope Francis prayed at Rome's Great Synagogue Sunday, making his first visit as pontiff to a Jewish house of worship and condemning all violence carried out in the name of religion. "Conflicts ...

President Isaac Herzog concluded his official visit to Italy today, with an address at a historic gathering of the Jewish community at the Great Synagogue of Rome. Speaking before hundreds of ...

His personal story was moving as well: as a child he was in the Great Synagogue of Rome when Palestinian terrorists attacked on Shabbat morning, October 9, 1982. Two-year-old toddler Stefano Gaj ...