Flowers decorating the Great Synagogue of Rome, Italy in June 2019. (Courtesy of JTA and the Conference of European Rabbis) Rome’s largest synagogue was decorated with thousands of flowers as part of ...

ROME – Italy's civil aviation authority has suspended the license of the helicopter pilot who flew low over Rome to drop flower petals during the over-the-top funeral of a purported local crime boss ...

Don Corleone would have been impressed. A low-level gangster in Rome had a garish funeral fit for a crime kingpin Thursday, complete with horse-drawn carriages, flower petals dropped from a helicopter ...

(JTA) — Rome’s largest synagogue was decorated with thousands of flowers as part of the community’s tradition ahead of the holiday of Shavuot. The flowers — arrangements of roses of various colors and ...