Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to ... In 1961, one of the oldest known synagogues in the Roman world was discovered during the construction of a highway to the new Fiumicino ...

The ritual bath is in part of what was the Ostia Synagogue, built at the end of ... rooted the Jewish presence was” in the heart of ancient Rome. Believed to have started off as a naval base ...

when the Ostian synagogue, the oldest in Western Mediterranean (it was built in the late 2nd–early 3rd century) and the only one preserved in Rome, ceased to exist following the definitive ...

Today, the Great Synagogue in Rome, known as the Tempio Maggiore ... and recreation center set against the backdrop of the ancient theatre of Marcellus. The gradual emancipation of the Jews ...

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 Great Synagogue – overlooking the Tiber River ... the precarious existence of the Jews since antiquity. Indeed, Rome’s ancient Jewish past, like its present, serves as testimony to ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis denounced all religiously inspired violence during a visit to Rome’s main synagogue Sunday, joining the oldest Jewish community in the diaspora in a sign of interfaith ...