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I will be in Rome for Yom Kippur. Does anyone know of a synagogue that permits visitors to attend services?
Thank you
If you type 'Rome synagogue' in Google you get various links. This is one that might be of help:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A0DE3DB1F31F93BA1575AC0A960948260
If you are not Jewish, you will only be able to visit a Reform synagogue for services (and then only by invitation). If you are Jewish, there should be no problem in simply finding the nearest one via google and introducing yourself to the rabbi beforehand.
I'm not Jewish, but three of us (gentiles) attended a service in the main central synagogue of Rome as guests of a friend, a young Jewish-American woman. (Not during Yom Kippur, however.) While there was security, of course (i.e. checking purses) there did not seem to be any problem with us attending. This was two years ago, things may have changed.
The Great Synagogue of Rome (Tempio Maggiore di Roma), on the banks of the Tiber, is an Orthodox synagogue that can be reached via its web site:
http://www.tempiomaggiore.roma.it/
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