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Notes from Jewish Rome and Italy

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Festivals, food, history — and what it actually takes to see it

Things I write down between one trip and the next: what a relief on a Roman arch really shows, why the ghetto invented the dishes it did, what closes for the High Holidays and what does not. The practical planning lives in the city guides and in the tours. This is where the rest goes.

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Hoshana Rabbà at the Great Synagogue of Rome

The seventh day of Sukkot and the last day of the High Holiday cycle is called Hoshana Rabbà — great salvation. It is held to be the final day of the divine judgment, and this is how it looks at the Great Synagogue of Rome....

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My Yom Kippur

A Kippur spent far from my parents, in the year the synagogues of Italy moved their services outside and spaced out the chairs. What I decided to do during that fast....

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