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The "Jewish Traveler"
has found a city where he
feels as "at home" as he does
in New York or Tel Aviv.
The city is, of course, Rome.
We were instantly "at
home" in Rome, a city that
is not only "eternal" but
warm and friendly. The
people are gracious and
very attractive with a de-
gree of sophistication that is
hard to match. -
The shops, especially on
the Via Condotti, are filled
with beautiful - things and
even if you are not a shopper
it's. hard not to be excited by
the great array of merchan-
dise, and even harder not to
buy.
The streets of Rome are
a joy to walk. With an-
tiquity all around, the
mood is one of Old World
charm. Everywhere you
go you are confronted
with fountains, monu-
ments, or crumbling
ruins that speak of the
glory that was Rome.
Since we were in Rollie on
a Friday, we decided to go to
services at the Chief
Synagogue on the Lugote-
vere Cenci.
We reached the Chief
Synagogue (in Italian, the
Tempio Maggiore) and since
it was Orthodox I entered on
the ground floor and my.
wife went up the stairs
which turned out to be a
five-flight climb.
The synagogue is 77-
years-old, very large, al-
. most 100 feet to the top of
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the center dome, and quite
ornate. It contains three
arks in the main sanctuary
because the temple was
built on the site of five
former synagogues and
some of the original arks
have been preserved in the
new building.
Inside the synagogue
are two major plaques,
one commemorating the
Roman Jews who fought
and died for Italy in
World War I and the
other in memory of the 73
Jews slain by the Nazis in
1944 in the Ardeatine
Caves.
The main synagogue also
houses the Jewish Museum
which is open every morn-
ing except Saturday. The
museum is filled with
Judaica from the 18th Cen-
tury synagogues which
were originally on the cur-
rent site. There are daily
services in the synagogue.
If you go to the first corner
on the left outside the
synagOgue, you'll find your-
self on Via Portico d'Ot-
tavia, the site of the original
ghetto of Rome which was
established by Pope Paul IV
in 1556. At one time there
were as many as 15
synagogues and 10,000
people packed-in to an area
barely 1/3 of a mile square.
While the narrow streets
and old buildings of the
ghetto have been preserved,
the old houses are being re-
novated into luxury apart-
merits for the elite of Rome's
business community.
There are still- good
Jewish restaurants in
and around the ghetto
area, including De Cos-
tanza, Piperno, plus a
small kosher restaurant
on the Via Portico d'Ot-
tavia.
It's a short walk from the
main synagogue to the cen-
ter of old Rome with its Col-
isseum, Roman Forum, and
Palantine Hills. Across Jewish control of the Jewish
from the main entrance to catacombs which contain
the Colisseum is the Via the graves of 100,000 Jews
buried almost 2,000 years
Sacra on the Roman Forum.
At the end of this short ago.
The Vatican plans to turn
street is the Arch of Titus
which was built for the over the Jewish catacombs
triumphant return of Titus to the Italian government
to Rome after his victory who will in turn give control
over Jerusalem in 70 CE. to the Jewish community
Inside the arch are several headed by Rome's chief
carvings which depict the rabbi, Elio Toaff.
Vatican laborers have al-
Jewish captives carrying
the spoils from the sacked ready uncovered important
city of Jerusalem including art works on the walls of the
Jewish catacombs and have
a large menora.
It was tradition for many -found a burial ground for
centuries that no Jew would rich Roman JeWs in the
walk under the Arch' of Jewish catacombs on the
Titus. However -, in World Via Appia Pignatelli, off the
War II the Jewish Brigade Appian Way, south of Rome._
marched under the arch
Roine's 15,000 Jews are
after Rome was liberated as
a -symbol that- the Jewish eager to welcome Jewish
people who Titus sought to visitors from other coun-
tries. So hop on a Pan Am
destroy still lived.
Not too far from the - 747, and enjoy_ the good life
center of Rome is the of a Jewish traveler in
Church of St. Peter in Rome.
Chains (San Pietro in
Vincoli) which contains a
beautiful statue of Moses.
by Michelangelo. In the
By WARREN FREEDMAN
same church under the
Before World War II there
altar there is a Jewish
were 100,000 Egyptian
grave which is said to
contain the remains of - Jew's, and in May 1948,
when the state of Israel was
Hannah and her seven
established, there were-
sons.
64,500 Jews in Egypt.
One of the main attrac-
tions for all Jewish travel-
Today there are, perhaps,
ers to Rome has yet to open,
150 — all elderly and many
• and that is the Jewish physically ill. These few
catacombs that have long Jew's reside in Cairo and
been under Vatican rule. Alexandria.
Now a new Concordat is -
. In recent months many
being worked out by the Ita-
lian government and the French Jews born in Egypt
Vatican which provides for. have revisited their birth-
places. They have been
treated like any tourist —
but tears came into their
eyes as they viewed the
Cairo stores and boutiques
which still Carry their
well-known Jewish names
like Gattegno, Chemla, and
Cicurel, but their owner-
ship today is 100 percent
Moslem.
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Rome's Jewish catacombs.
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Jews of Egypt
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The
Hashamayim Synagogue
in Cairo is still open but
not functioning. The old
Jewish quarter, Haret
el-Yahoud, once had
seven , operating
synagogues. (Rav Moshe
Synagogue, in particular,
is in rapid decay.) Many
synagogues have been
turned into mosques.
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A kosher restaurant in the old Roman ghetto area.
In Alexandria, the Eliahu--
Hanavi Synagogue, on the
other hand, has been care-
fully maintained, and is
open for- religious services
whenever a minyan is
possible from Alexandria's
70 to 80 Jews.
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