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Meet the Guides

Roy Doliner helped establish Rome For Jews and still selects and trains the guides personally. He is by trade an award-winning playright and actor, performing in both Italy and the United States, and by passion a historian, interpreter and Talmud instructor. He is currently busy promoting his internationally best-selling book The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican, co-authored with Rabbi Benjamin Blech.

David Walden was born in Toronto, Canada. He has a Yeshiva background and a degree in elementary education from the city of New York. He has lived in Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, Switzerland, Israel and now Italy for the past ten years. He has taught in Jewish day schools in Hebrew and English. He loves Roman architecture and its amazing Jewish heritage.

Brenda Bohen is both a U.S. and Italian citizen, and a proud veteran of the US Army Reserves. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Judaic Studies, with a specialization in "Jewish Art in the Vatican". She passionately believes in the power of Art and History to build bridges between the Jewish and Christian worlds.

Tali Miller is from Englewood, New Jersey and attended Ramaz yeshiva in Manhattan. She recently graduated with honors from John Cabot University, an American university in Rome, Italy. She majored in humanities, studying philosophy, comparative religion and art history and minored in Italian studies. She has been living in Rome for three years with her puppy, Kasha.

Jonathan Glück was born in Jerusalem, served in the IDF as a combat medic, and came to Italy several years ago to study violin in Cremona (the home of Stradivarius) and ethnomusicology. He performs concerts around the world as well as here in Rome, where he also composes music and researches the history of Jewish music in Southern Italy and Eastern Europe.

Laura Weinstein is an Emmy-nominated, National Geographic-trained documentary film producer. She has been studying ancient history, art history and archaeology since she was inspired at Hebrew school at age 7, and has made historical films her specialty over an 18-year career with National Geographic TV and Film, Discovery Channel, PBS, Time Life etc.

Zahava Friedman received her BA in History from Touro College in New
York. She wrote her senior thesis about the reaction of Northern
Italian Jewish communities to modernism. Her years as a leader for Bnei Akiva
NY/NJ and as a docent at the Holocaust Museum and Study Center
cemented her interest in informal education. It is her love for
living history and authentic gelato that landed her in Rome.

What We Do

ROME FOR JEWS is proud to offer some of Rome's best
tours from a Jewish perspective. We are proud to tell you all
the amazing Jewish history and stories in the Colosseum and
Imperial Forums, in the Vatican and all over the historic center,
not just in the old Ghetto area.

We give our tours in fluent English, Hebrew, Italian and
American Sign Language. Our guides are all articulate,
knowledgeable, fun and passionately interested in Jewish,
Roman and art history. Once we get to the tour sites, we do
our tours on foot, as they are all in pedestrian zones, for reasons
of archeology and security, and so we can make sure you don't
miss any of the great sights or stories that await you at every turn.

For getting exactly the right hotel for you, arranging
transportation, train tickets, kosher meals and catering,
cell phones, Shabbat needs, and just about everything else,
call David Walden at (country code 39) 339.705.9603.
We are proudly Shomer Shabbat (Sabbath observant) and
donate 10% of all our proceeds to tzedaka (righteous charity).

What We Don't Do

We do not do the kind of uninformative "drive-through" bus
tours where you snap photos through a car or bus window
without ever truly experiencing the city. We do not work on
the Sabbath, even if paid in advance. Touring on a Saturday
afternoon might be a relaxing pleasure for a client, but for us
it would be work and thus a profanation of Shabbat rest.
We do not exchange dollars or traveler's checks. We are not
equipped to accept credit cards, dollars or traveler's checks.
In spite of the many urban legends and rumors, there is no way
to get you into the Vatican museum ahead of everyone else,
there is no secret side door to let you step directly inside the
Sistine Chapel from the street, there is no access to the secret
tunnels under the Colosseum, there is no way to arrange a
private meeting over tea and cookies with either the Chief
Rabbi or the Pope, and there is no proof that the Menorah and
Kelim (the holy vessels from the Holy Temple) are in the
basement of the Vatican. We will be very happy, of course,
to show you the authentic representations of them in stone
carved by the Romans 2,000 years ago.

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"THE SISTINE SECRETS: the Hidden Messages of Michelangelo", from HarperCollins Press, written by Roy Doliner and Rabbi Benjamin Blech
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