By Adam Smulevich
Joshua Cohen was in Jerusalem at the time it was announced that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Just a few minutes later, he said, “my house was surrounded by reporters. None of them had …
For weeks, in the summer of 2021, we talked about little else. Then, attention started fading while Afghanistan disappeared from the front pages and stopped making headlines. Yet the humanitarian crisis has not stopped for a moment and rather intensified. …
Siempre es el momento para hacerse la pregunta contenida en el título del libro de Abraham Joshua Heschel ¿Quién es el hombre? Una lectura que el rabino rav Giuseppe Momigliano de Génova, dice que hizo hace varios años y que …
In the middle of summer, as Italy found out that it had to go back to the polls again, a publishing initiative showed how books can be a symbol of solidarity too, reminding us that not far from this country, …
By Daniel Reichel
Arieh, doctor of the Israeli NGO Hatzalah Lelo Gvulot (Rescue without borders), is on the phone. He wants to know if an ambulance is available to take away three Ukrainian refugees. They have to reach Rzeszów, a …
By Daniel Leisawitz*
The history and culture of the Jews of Italy are largely unknown to most Americans, as they are to most Italians. Even among well-educated American Jews, it’s news that Italy is home to a multi-millennial Jewish …
By Kyle Tassone*
What is “illumination”? In addition to being a synonym for “light”, Illumination, is also a unique project that gathered passionate professional musicians under the guiding vision and direction of cellist Ayela Seidelman, to rediscover early modern …
By Alan David Baumann*
Children of artists never abandon the strong bond with the parents, although psychologically the umbilical cord must be severed. On the one hand the artwork helps, on the other its constant presence can mean a sort …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
As the restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Italy are progressively eased up, Italian Jewish communities started to celebrate again life-cycle events in person, according to the guidelines of the authorities.
In Rome, Elinor …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
As a child, he remembers taking walks, sometimes close to the Synagogue. And his love for art and beauty, which his father passed on to him during the unforgettable visits of the most important landmarks of …