By Cnaan Liphshiz*
Synagogues and churches have reopened in northern Italy, where they had been shut down since that area went into lockdown following the first major outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe.
The main synagogue of Milan reopened Monday per …
By JTA staff*
Catholic bishops in Germany “made themselves complicit” in Nazi crimes according to a report by the German Bishops’ Conference.
At a video news conference Wednesday, the president of the conference, Bishop Georg Baetzing, presented the findings of …
Redacción MARCA
Italia recordó este martes al ciclista Gino Bartali, tres veces ganador del Giro y doble campeón del Tour de Francia entre los años 30 y 40, de cuyo fallecimiento se cumple el vigésimo aniversario.
Bartali, uno de los …
By Jacob Judah*
German researchers working in the Apostolic Archive claim to have found evidence that the Vatican was handed reports about the extent of the Holocaust in 1942, but dismissed some of the information they contained.
The seven-person team …
By Ansa staff
Italian Jews said Monday they would obey a ban on religious gatherings apart from funerals saying that “lives come first” amid the coronavirus emergency.
The head of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, …
By Raphael Ahren*
Presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials on Sunday celebrated the centenary of the San Remo Conference as a milestone of Zionist history that paved the way to the establishment of a Jewish state.
In late April …
By Kathryn Mckinley
The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap in infection and mortality …
By Giovanni Vigna*
On March 16, the former secretary general of the Jewish community of Milan, Michele Sciama, became the first Italian Jew to die of COVID-19. To date, Italy has suffered the most COVID-19 related deaths and is second …
By Julie Carbonara
It was a mild early summer evening and Venice’s ghetto quarter was pleasantly busy, rather than packed to the gills like the more touristy sites.
It was early Friday afternoon and the ghetto was winding down when …
By Cnaan Liphshiz*
From his home in Italy’s wealthiest city, Rabbi Moshe Lazar can see deserted streets and squares that were bustling with life only two weeks ago.
“Public life is standing still,” he said on Monday. “No one goes …