Today’s itinerary: A visit to the Museo di Roma and the Jewish Ghetto by Tyler Gray

rome blog day 5Thursday was a rough morning. After the long night before I think everyone was tired. That morning in class we had a Model UN, which was extremely fun. After class we took a bus to the Jewish ghetto. While at the Jewish ghetto we went to Museo di Roma, a museum about the history of the Jewish religion in Europe.

The Museum consisted of four rooms filled with awesome Jewish art works, cloths, scrolls, and even pieces of old synagogues, it also had 2 synagogues attached to one being what would have been a normal synagogue and the other being the largest one in all of Italy. The synagogues were absolutely incredible form the architecture to the details in the decorations, they were just absolutely beautiful. While in the synagogues we learned that while at the service the men and women would be separated the men sitting in the middle and the women to the side and second floor. They did this to stop the distraction of couples being next to each other and for other various holy reasons.

The Model UN that we constructed in class that morning was extremely insightful. I never really new how the UN even conducted business let alone how hard and difficult it is for them to make a decision and do something of use with the resolution they would have created. The amount of politics and the concern for what the resolution would effect is just surpassed anything I could have imagined. I am very glad we conducted this model UN in class, I got to learn a lot about the UN because of it.