By Philologos*
In your preparations for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 17, you may have overlooked Bloomsday the day before. If you did, I submit that you missed the more important event. Fathers come and go. There will always, however, …
By JTA*
Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population.
The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the …
By Terence Daley*
A decision to name a Rome street after the founder of Italy’s major post-war neofascist party and editor of an infamous Mussolini-era racist journal will be blocked, the mayor of the capital announced Friday.
On Thursday Rome …
By Rosie Whitehouse*
Menachem Krigel spent 15 months hiding in a cramped wood store in the home of a Ukrainian peasant who hid him and his mother during World War II. In the weeks after the liberation, as the frontline …
By Ami Spiro*
The layout of the Western Wall is hotly debated among different Jewish religious groups. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is shared – mostly in harmony – among the Greek Orthodox, the Armenian Orthodox, the Catholic Church …
By Ben Sales*
Gino Bartali had already won the Tour de France once and the Giro d’Italia twice when he started taking the most dramatic bicycle rides of his life.
Bartali was an Italian cyclist who grew up in a …
By Barry Davis*
Things are heating up, in the best sense of the term – cycling- wise – in Jerusalem.
Last week we had the inaugural GFNY “cycling marathon” in and around the city. Over 1,300 cyclists of varying levels …
By Nicole Winfield*
It’s an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had …
By Jessica Steinberg*
When the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra performs a selection of reconstructed music composed by Holocaust victims next week in Jerusalem, it will feel like the fulfillment of a mitzvah, said Italian conductor Francesco Lotoro, using the Hebrew word …
By David Laskin*
Even without a book or a guide, even after two millenniums of crumbling, the image of the seven-branched candelabrum — the Jewish menorah — is unmistakable on the inner wall of the Arch of Titus in the …