{"id":35149,"date":"2016-07-20T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=35149"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:14:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:14:14","slug":"jewish-rome-lospitalita-e-sacra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/07\/jewish-rome-lospitalita-e-sacra.html","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Rome (l’ospitalit\u00e0 \u00e8 sacra)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m going to be sharing photos from my recent travels, and unlike the hasty bulk uploads to Facebook which some of you may have seen, here I will be commenting on and explaining them. Rather than make one post that might take a while to load because of the number of images, I will be trying out the new slideshow multi-page option we now have at Patheos. And so be sure to keep clicking to the next page until you reach the end!<\/p>\n

Let me start with the very final part of my trip to Italy, the last day before I flew back to the United States. I visited Rome again\u00a0on the way back from the Enoch Seminar meeting in Camaldoli.\u00a0I had planned to visit some of the catacombs in Rome<\/a> with some of the other conference attendees<\/a>, but a train strike prevented\u00a0us from leaving Arezzo until 1pm. In the end, we scrapped that plan and went to our various hotels upon arriving in Rome, with\u00a0a few of us arranging to meet up later for dinner.<\/p>\n

I made a point of exploring places that I had not been to, and passing by a couple of places I had visited a week earlier as I traveled a different route through the historic center. I was glad I did, as I got to see the Colosseum and\u00a0the Forum from another side. The view of the Forum from across the Circus Maximus gave a big picture\u00a0angle on the site I had visited previously,\u00a0and I got a photo of the Colosseum that included tourists inside who provide a clearer sense of the size of it.<\/p>\n

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I then made my way along the Tiber and across Tiber Island.<\/p>\n

\"Island<\/p>\n

That takes you to the ghetto in which a papal decree in the 16th century forced Jews in Rome to live. One of the first signs that I had arrived was a proselytizing sign in Hebrew on a church,\u00a0Santa Maria della Piet\u00e0.<\/p>\n

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Nearby there is an ancient theater,\u00a0and a museum which used to by the community\u2019s synagogue.\"Jewish \"Jewish<\/p>\n

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It was the Sabbath, and this is still a center of Jewish life in Rome, and so the museum and many other things were closed.<\/p>\n

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One thing that was not closed, however, was Nonna Betta, which styles itself as a \u201ckosher style\u201d restaurant. There I tried the\u00a0famous dish\u00a0carciofi alla giud\u00eca (Jewish style artichoke) as well as fish Nonna Betta style with a side of spinach with pine nuts. It was all delicious, the wine was good, the service was good, and I highly recommend a visit there to anyone in Rome. As the souvenir magnet I bought there says, \u201chospitality is sacred.\u201d And I loved the way they turned two rolling pins and a sheet of pasta dough into a simulated Torah scroll!<\/p>\n

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I dined there with two other scholars who were at the Enoch Seminar, Shayna Sheinfeld and Meredith Warren.<\/div>\n
\"Nonna<\/div>\n

I am at present looking forward to reading Meredith\u2019s book, My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51-58<\/i><\/a>. And see Shayna\u2019s contribution to the volume from a previous Enoch Seminar meeting on Paul the Jew<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Rome has so much history, as well as such a rich and diverse cultural life in the present day, that I barely feel like I scratched the surface. I hope to have the opportunity to return there more than once in the future!<\/p>\n

\"Wall<\/p>\n

I will be sharing more photos from my trip in the coming days. I hope you enjoyed this slideshow in which I shared this subset from them.\u00a0Please do let me know if you have questions, and feedback about the multi-page format of this post would also be welcome.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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