the area’s first Jewish house of worship. By the 16th century, Jews fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, as well as Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, had come ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

It is believed to be one of the world’s oldest synagogues, dating back to the first century BCE ... of a much larger Jewish quarter with wineries, a park, residential houses, and clay pithoi ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...