The Jewish Ghetto and Model U.N. by Alexander Baldwin

Italy synagogueDay Five, the day we walked through the Jewish Ghetto and saw one of the most amazing sites I have ever seen. We toured the museum at first and we learned all about Jewish traditions and rituals but then we entered a small synagogue and learned about how they conducted praise. They take the Torah Scroll out of its case behind lock and key and read one part every service. After the small synagogue, we went to one of the four largest in Rome. The entire inside was decorated with Jewish history or sacred markings and relics. Just walking in the door and sitting down in the pews made an entire world of knowledge open to a person and seeing how it was decorated was stunning.

Today we also held a Model UN in class where we all picked a country to represent and we had to create resolutions to world problems. These problems included; Military, Immigration, Global Warming, and Poverty. We all stated our resolutions and how it work help with the issues and what we could do to help. Some resolutions were very controversial in which there were long debates over how they work but overall it was a great experience to learn about international relations in a UN situation.