Fifty-five years ago, this week Pope Paul VI promulgated Nostra Aetate, the declaration that marked a historical change in Christian-Jewish relations. Among others, it exonerated the Jewish people of the collective blame of Jesus’ death – one of the main …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff*
“We’re living in a moment of great conflict, including in the Middle East. All of this is creating an atmosphere in which many discriminations will probably continue to thrive. We need a lot of work at …
Pagine Ebraiche staff
Era un amigo del pueblo judío, una persona con la mente abierta y con la que era posible mantener un diálogo franco, tenía una profunda sensibilidad religiosa. Algunas voces del judaísmo italiano han querido recordar así en …
By Noemi Di Segni*
This year’s European Day of Jewish Culture will involve as many as eighty-one localities from the north to the south of Italy, featuring hundreds of cultural initiatives. This increasingly-successful event, established eighteen years ago, is promoted …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
A delegation of representatives of the Union of Italian Jewish Students (UGEI), the Islamic Confederation of Italy and the Community of Sant’Egidio met with the Italian Minister of Interior Marco Minniti at the Viminale, the headquarters …
By Daniel Reichel
Fighting intolerance and religious radicalism in prison: this is the main goal of the project “Understanding and Managing Religious Pluralism in Lombardy Prisons.”
The Milan Jewish Community has been involved in this project since last year.
The …
By Daniel Reichel
‘Shemà’ (‘Hear’), is the name of the new project created by the Italian section of the Merkos l’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational branch of the Chabad-Lubavitch: a support service dedicated to all the people in need.
Connected to …
By Pagine Ebraiche Staff
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation announced that it will award the archbishop of Palermo Corrado Lorefice a medal. Last January, Lorefice donated a space to the newly established Jewish Community of Palermo (a section of the …
By Daniel Reichel
The Archbishop of Milan Angelo Scola visited the Central Synagogue of Milan for the first time last week.
The need for a dialogue between religions that can really guarantee social harmony and represent a bulwark against radicalism, …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The interfaith dialogue between Jews and the Catholic Church is “at a very good point”. Explaining it to Pagine Ebraiche is Father Norbert Hofmann, secretary of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. …