jews in rome

i saw the arch of titus today.

Rome is very impressive, very intelligent, but entirely savage. the frequency with which a system like this appears on our planet, a system of militant hierarchy that, with cultural ignorance, dominates the surrounding world, amazes me. Saddens me.
But I have experienced this disheartening sadness as you have (as only the best of today's journalists can bring); the response that can lessen the sadness for future generations is not to close off from it, to hide in the darkness of its shadow, but to consciously create, provoke, a newer, peaceful world in the world around each of us, in the communities that we are all an integral part of.

it is savage of me to respond with pity and sadness only once i have seen the roman plight of the jews. but perhaps that experience will rather be a gateway for my jewish self to better understand the communities of the gentile world, a world that is not separate. The world is not separate.

With that, I am very excited for some day trips, go see the lands around Rome, the communities that Romans are neighboring parts of.

And it's great - The Italians are very good at making themselves understood, at least the friends I made buying food and walking by on the street and, well, the Italians. They could converse with a child. Remnants of an empire?

And also, very excited to try the Jewish restaurants, Da Giggetto serving carciofi alla giudea. Synagogue down the street. I really don't understand why it took the [eternal] Pope until the 1500's to put the jews in a ghetto. In the capital of Catholicism?