By Gretchen Rachel Hammond*
In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people.
Far below him, thousands had packed into the …
By Adam Smulevich
In January Israel’s first ever professional cycling team, Israel Cycling Academy, was invited to participate in the Giro d’Italia scheduled to begin in Jerusalem on May 4th. The managers of the team highlighted how this opportunity marks …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Today there are “too many signals of a rising anti-Semitism. We have to fight it, because our own safety is at stake”, pleaded the Italian foreign minister, Angelino Alfano, during the International Conference on the Responsibility …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
About a thousand people took part in the second edition of the “Run for MEM” last week in Bologna. The non-competitive sports event was created by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) to promote …
By Adam Smulevich
Vittorio Emanuele III, the king who signed Mussolini’s Racial Laws against Jews in 1938 is guilty “in front of history” for this act.
This is the decision reached at the end of the mock trial against the …
By Daniel Reichel
On December 12, 2017, at the Casa della Musica in Parma, the finalists of the Musical Composition Competition inspired by Jewish Tradition will present their musical works.
The project is promoted by the Union of Italian Jewish …
By Daniel Reichel
A delegation of the Italian High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) – guided by the deputy president Giovanni Legnini and the president of the Supreme Court of Cassation Giovanni Canzi, visited Israel last week.
The mission was …
Ada Treves*
Die erste Tat der Podiumsrunde mit dem Titel “Teilnahme und Staatsbürgerschaft heute: die Herausforderungen der Aufnahme“, die eine zentrale Veranstaltung des Festes des Jüdischen Buches von Ferrara 2017 war, war die Unterzeichnung des Vereinbarungsprotokolls durch das Meis, das …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff*
“At this historic stage, it is important to conduct an interreligious dialogue that must be based on two theoretical points: do not persecute anyone in God’s name, do not kill in God’s name.” This is the …
Pagine Ebraiche staff*
As it has become tradition, the inauguration of the European Day of Jewish Culture in Rome goes together with the beginning of the events of the International Festival of Jewish Literature and Culture (this year in its …