ROME AND THESSALONIKI – Where is the oldest Jewish community in the world? Go to Italy and they tell you it is Rome, where Jews first arrived in the early Hasmonean period. In Greece, the claim is that a Jewish settlement was established in Salonika (or Thessaloniki as they call it today) on the Aegean shore earlier, around the time when the Greek empire ruled the Fertile Crescent....
- By Elisabeth
- 23 Mar 2013
- 11:58AM
12000 Israeli's in Amsterdam alone seem to like it here just fine, and I don't think they are masochists. Plus, Europe is diverse. Greece and Italy are a world apart from northern Europe, and eastern Europe is again another story. So what is the use of sweeping statements about 'the accursed continent'?
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