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 ...

(JTA) — Rome’s largest synagogue was decorated with thousands of flowers as part of the community’s tradition ahead of the holiday of Shavuot. The flowers — arrangements of roses of ...

For thousands of years, it's been the center of Jewish life in Rome. The Great Synagogue is a must-see for tourists. The restaurants are some of the best in the city. One has only to look up to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rome's Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni conducts a service for Mireille Knoll, during a ceremony in her memory to condemning the alleged antisemitic motive for of her killing, at the Synagogue in central ...

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.

A synagogue in the Italian city of Bologna was attacked and vandalized on Saturday night amid massive protests following the death of a young Egyptian-Italian man during a police car chase in ...

Watch: Foreign Minister Israel Katz and families of hostages conclude a meeting with members of the Jewish community in Rome with a moving singing of Israel's national anthem.

To learn more about the neighborhood, you should visit the Jewish Museum of Rome attached to the Great Synagogue, which displays religious artifacts and explains the area's history in a series of ...