Achinoam Nini, better known as Noa, is one of the most renowned Israeli artists globally. Her concert, titled “The voice of peace,” will conclude the current edition of the Balagan Café festival in Florence on the evening of September 5. …
A new guidebook, Viaggio nell’Italia ebraica. Le meraviglie di una cultura millenaria (A Journey Through Jewish Italy: the Wonders of a Millenary Culture), is set to hit bookstores soon. Curated by the Touring Club Italiano in collaboration with the Foundation …
Ruth’s is a kosher vegetarian restaurant next to the synagogue in Florence. Its owner for over twenty years, Tomas Simcha Jelinek, is also a vegetarian. “Everyone has been here. Even the Italian steak king, Dario Cecchini. Outside his realm, he …
“I had long envisioned the core of the story: a country with a Muslim majority and a significant Jewish presence, the interaction between the two communities, and I wanted children as main characters,” said Benedetta D’Incau. Known as BeneDì, …
“It is a strange country where stamps are dedicated to individuals who were closely involved with the activities of a the Fascist government, which we know caused so much damage.” Thus, the President of the Provincial Council of Bolzano (South …
A well-known entrepreneur in the oil industry, Guido Ottolenghi served as president of the Jewish community of Bologna from 2005 to 2013. Since 2014, he has been the head of the local Jewish Museum, which, with its numerous annual meetings …
Entrepreneur Guido Ottolenghi has been appointed as the new president of the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara for the next four years. The appointment, by Italy’sMinister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, is effective immediately. Daniele Ravenna, …
Parma, Italy is best known for parmesan and prosciutto, but it is also a place of Jewish pilgrimage,
Yiddishists come here, as I did last October on a YIVO tour, to visit the Palatina Library and walk in the footsteps …
“I had long envisioned the core of the story: a country with a Muslim majority and a significant Jewish presence, the interaction between the two communities, and I wanted child protagonists,” says Benedetta D’Incau. Known as BeneDì, D’Incau received the …
The transcriptions of ketubbot (Jewish marriage contracts) from the “Nazione Israelitica” fund housed at the State Archive of Florence, which comprises records produced by the Tribunale dei Massari and the chancellery of the Jewish nation of Florence. But also messianisms …