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 ...

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 ...

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, 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.