Walking around Florence one comes across a plethora of beautiful sights and art. And then every once in a while we take a tour to another beautiful city. This time we traveled to Siena to see the Jewish ghetto and the old shul. The shul was small, unadorned and on a second level for safety I assume. Unfortunately, the community in Siena is tiny now and even the tour guide's son is worried about having a minyan (quorem) for his bar mitzvah. Imagine being in a developing town that just developed with only 70 persons for moneylending... How the shuls must have developed and the cooperation (if any) that went down...
After viewing a bit of the ghetto and the shul we then had the oppurtunity to eat with Prof. Coop at a wonderful social rehabilitation center (those of us that didn't abandon ship early).
Some pictures of the city, me leading the way, and the place follow:
We we also decided to play with some of the animals that we met there. Some of them decided that it was their lunch time too!
And a picture of me (as it is my blog) *a nice view of the ponte vecchio*
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