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I will most remember the discordant sounds at this memorial, how each note sounded like the start of a song that would never end.

Upon walking down the stairs to the excavated area, the visitor can immediately sense what life must have been like in the ghetto.

There will be bits of information and photos and stories that work their way into my classroom and life for years to come.

These were the streets that Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci themselves walked!

Standing in the Piazza Farnese, we saw two fountains with ancient stone basins that were recycled from Roman baths from the 2nd or 3rd century, one of the best examples of a Renaissance palace built in the 16th century, and a 21st century art exhibit: a trompe l’oeil installation that beautifully covers the scaffolding used for renovation

The inside was overwhelming with famous art from artists such as Michelangelo,  Leonardo da Vinci, and Botticelli. The pieces such as The Birth of Venus, Primavera, The Annunciation, and Doni Tondo were awe inspiring in detail

it will not be a marble statue or a beautiful painting I will remember about this place, but the open conversations and willing hearts of the people who have shared of themselves in order to give me a better understanding of the Jewish world

Quando comincia la storia? “When does history begin?,” asks the Jewish Museum of Bologna.

In “Ulysses” Alfred, Lord Tennyson said, “I am a part of all that I have met.” Every experience we have a humans shapes us and makes us who we are.

My senses were overloaded by so much wealth and power that was concentrated for centuries in the hands of a small city-state on the northern edge of the Adriatic sea.

Padua is a very ancient city with roots that reach far back into antiquity.  It is home to a famous university that at one point was the only one to accept Jewish students.

We learned that at the time the synagogues were built in the 16th century, Jews were not permitted to be architects so they were designed by Christians.