Several families were evacuated after a fire broke out in an apartment in Venice’s New Ghetto. A spokesman for the Venice Jewish community told JTA that no Jewish community property was damaged. The ghetto, heart of the city’s historic Jewish quarter, is the site of the Jewish museum, Jewish communal offices and several centuries-old synagogues.
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