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Roman-era Jewish bath in Italy may be oldest outside of Israel, points to vibrant Diaspora
A newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...
Discovery of ritual bath sheds light on Jewish life in ancient Rome
The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...
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Rome’s shame: Erasing memory to appease homeowners
It takes a perverse degree of self-regard to argue that the real problem is not the bigots and vandals who desecrate the memory of Holocaust victims, but the very monument intended to honor them. This ...
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For Rome’s Jews, ties with ailing pope are personal. And increasingly complicated
“The Church presented Rome as the new Jerusalem,” she told The Times of Israel. “The Jews of Rome were persecuted with the specific aim of bringing them to a path of conversion to Christianit ...
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Archaeologists uncover what could be the oldest mikveh outside of Israel
Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest mikveh bath outside of Israel in an ancient port city near Rome, ...
Ancient mikveh dating back to Roman times discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy
Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...