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 ...

For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political ... "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, and we wept when we remembered Zion." This is a psalm ...

Modern Zionism is gradually abandoning David Ben-Gurion’s “melting pot” approach, embracing instead a profound social ...