If you would like to know what life ...

If you would like to know what life might be like for Jews in a world without an Israel, this article offers some interesting insight. An article that was intended to read as informative and quaint offers interesting insight. In a now clearly secular Europe, Jews are tolerated in small numbers as long as they are well behaved and know their place. I wonder how they would react to the loud mouth, media dominating, world controlling type that rule the world ? (tongue in cheek) .

Renewal, in Real Estate and in Culture, for Ancient People
By IAN FISHER
Published: January 26, 2007

ROME, Jan. 25 — As a boy, in October 1943, Pacifico Disegni watched from his window as two German trucks hauled people from the ghetto in Rome, a city where Jews have lived for 2,000 years.

Last year, in blessedly more peaceful times, a rich visitor from Boston took in the view from that same window. A magnificent front-row view of the Theater of Marcellus, first planned by Julius Caesar, somehow salves the sting of history.

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