Synagogue Rome

We woke up at 2pm today(!), feeling like garbage after not sleeping well thanks to a lot of noise from a bar down below, but rallied with a slice of pizza from the heavenly Forno La Renella two doors down from us (!). I had pizza bianca topped with fiore di zucca (zucchini flowers), anchovies, and mozzarella. D had one with prosciutto and …

Hola amigos! Jasmine here! So today you're going to get a massive post dump because we (1) fell behind and (2) when we

caught up to posts there was no internets. Alas. (You know how it is. When we have free internet, we're too damn busy to

post. When we have downtime to post, internet becomes scarce. Such is life.) Anyway, …

Today will be remembered as a day of epicurean delights! After visiting the Jewish Museum and Synagogue I stopped for lunch in the ghetto to sample the artichokes, most people were having the fried artichoke but good sense overcame me and I chose the ...

wow! another great day!! today we went on a tour through the old Jewish ghetto and a tour through the old synagogue. it was really cool! i took all sorts of pictures.... you can see some of them in the photo album. anyway, we met our tour guide Tom at ...

... we visited, so all the sounds of singing echoed around and it sounded cool. I bet if we had heard singing in the Synagogue, the effect would have been the same!!! The statues are of important saints and popes and other people important to the church. ...

... have seen the movie "Only You" it is featured in it and tells the legend), the Jewish Ghetto (and saw the first synagogue that was built in Rome), the ancient ruins where Julius Caesar was kill (Et tu, Brute?), the Golden House of Nero, The Roman Forum, ...

... Caesar once walked.   Still heading vaguely south/southeast, we passed the Tempio Maggiore di Roma, the Great Synagogue of Rome, along with probably a dozen plain-clothes policemen.  Across the street from the synagogue was a modest plaque ...

... the Tiber - and walked along it for a while, stopping for a fabulous coffee in a little place along the way, and passing the Synagogue in the Jewish Ghetto. We turned left, back in the general direction of the Forum, and managed to walk in a circle, past ...

... in that interesting hill town. Lovely view through the haze of Florence. I could identify the Duomo, of course, but also the synagogue in my neighborhood, Santa Croce, and the big stadium where today at 3 pm there will be an important soccer game. I ...

... shipped 2091 Roman Jews to the death camps of Dachau, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Only 16 of those people returned to Rome. The Great Synagogue of Rome is just across from this square. Our last stop on this walk was across the Ponte Fabricio on Isola ...

... to Rome in order to spend Passover there as there is a vibrant Jewish community, Kosher food as well as a beautiful, historic synagogue. We visited Rome six years ago and missed out on seeing the Sistine Chapel as I had a nasty skin reaction on my ...

... to take a picture or check the map, we made our way. We got there just after dark and yup. That's a synagogue. Ya know, churches, synagogues, temples, etc. can be breathtaking monuments to God but after awhile, especially in Rome where one is ...