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. …
By Rachael Kohn*
The world’s first ghetto was nothing like the racial enclaves and impoverished neighbourhoods that the use of the term conjures up today.
Nor was it a voluntary refuge where immigrants clustered, preferring their own company to that …
Closing a year full of events marking 500 years of the Ghetto of Venice, the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem opens a new exhibition offering an original perspective. The new exhibition opened for the festival of …
By Natalie Chetboun
It’s the gold that catches the eye, the gilded wood carved to resemble vases filled with flowers, the Baroque handwork shimmering against a wall painted sky blue. Polished wooden benches, once heavy with worshippers, sit empty below …
By Eli Mendelbaum*
It has been 500 years since the founding of the Jewish Ghetto, the first in the world, in Venice in 1516. “People don’t understand the significance of the word ghetto, where it comes from and how the …
By Rossella Tercatin
After the exhibits inaugurated in New York and California, the Jewish Ghetto of Venice and the history of Venetian Jews are going to be on a special display at the Israel Museum of Jerusalem.
From September 16, …
The Center for Jewish History in New York will mark the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto in 1516 with a new exhibition that reveals the complex history of Jewish life in the Mediterranean world following the …
The extraordinary week that has seen the return to the Ghetto of the most famous Venetian Jew of all times is arriving to its end: tonight “The merchant in Venice” will be performed for the last time in the Campo …