New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...

Old Jewish 'Purification' Bath Found While Digging a Roman City; 'Oldest Discovery of Its Kind in the World' Ancient ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

ROME (JTA) — Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the main synagogue in Rome after the High Holidays. In Rosh Hashanah greetings to Rome’s Jewish community released Thursday by the office of ...

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 ...

Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the ...

Rome itself, seems to have something on the order of ten different synagogue congregations, and the Jewish population of the city of Rome at its zenith was perhaps 100,000. Unfortunately ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...

Jews had lived in Rome since the second century BC. Julius Caesar and Augustus supported laws that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get ...

(OSV News) — St. John Paul II’s example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, especially in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas ...

Rome, January 8 - Pope Francis' visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome on January 17 speaks to peace in the face of extremism, Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni told ANSA in an interview Friday.