More than 500 years after the Jews were expelled from Sicily, a tiny Jewish community will open its first synagogue in the island's capital city of Palermo.
At an official ceremony to be held on Thursday (Jan. 12), the Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo will transfer to the Jewish community a chapel, the Oratory of Santa Maria al Sabato, which was built above the ruins of the Great Synagogue that once stood in the center of Palermo.
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