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

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

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

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 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 ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the lulav (palm branch and symbol of the harvest festival).

Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants ... sundry Roman-era inscriptions, and a synagogue at Ostia Antica. The “structural and formal characteristics” of the room found at Ostia ...

"Rome - Giuli concluded - is a city that hosts all civilizations, all traditions and the Jewish one is the oldest one". Di Segni told the press that the bathhouse joined the Synagogue already at Ostia ...

The ritual bath is in part of what was the Ostia Synagogue, built at the end of the ... the Jewish presence was” in the heart of ancient Rome. Believed to have started off as a naval base ...