By Mara Vigevani*
“Unfortunately, Tariq Ramadan has not been able to reach Italy because of health reasons and therefore in the afternoon he will not be physically present at the presentation of the book ‘The Muslim and Agnostic’, as scheduled …
By Lianne Kolirin*
The 11th stage of Italy’s annual Giro d’Italia cycling race started today in front of a cycling museum dedicated to a Righteous Gentile, Gino Bartali.
Mr Bartali was an Italian champion cyclist who saved hundreds of Jews …
By Rossella Tercatin*
ROME — During a historic meeting with Pope John Paul II in 2004, then-Sephardic and Ashkenazi chief rabbis of Israel Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger reportedly threw caution and diplomacy to the wind and asked after the …
By Kirsten Schlewitz*
When the waiter plucked the flat, rectangular plate between us, I felt my nose wrinkle involuntarily. Across the table my friend shook his head. “I wanted to hit the cicchetti bars. I wanted more of the baccalà …
By Allon Sinai*
Leone Efrati was thousands of kilometers away from Europe when World War II broke out in September 1939.
He should have been safe from the Holocaust.
Born in Rome on May 16, 1916, the Jewish-Italian boxer moved …
By Saviona Mane*
Rome’s Jewish community decided to boycott this year’s annual Liberation Day March on April 25, a national holiday in Italy.
Its members will stay away from the march organized by the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI) …
By Sarah Moosazadeh
The Jewish community in Rome is one of the oldest in Europe and is where Breman Jewish Heritage Museum community engagement director Ghila Sanders has her roots.
Rome has roughly 13,000 Jews in an overall population of …
By Elisabetta Povoledo*
Excavations that unearth some artifact or another are common enough in Rome, but archaeologists monitoring a building restoration were taken aback when they found 38 well-preserved skeletons that they believe were once buried in the long-vanished Campus …
By Naomi Zeveloff*
Thirty gold coins were found amid the remains of a Crusader-era shipwreck discovered off the coast of Acre in northern Israel last week.
The coins are “florins” from Florentine, Italy, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The …
By Ariel David
It wasn’t enough for the Romans to enslave the Jews, plunder Judea, conquer Jerusalem, destroy the Temple and then erect a massive triumphal arch to commemorate those feats of war for millennia to come: They had to …