By Cnaan Liphshiz*
The outbreak of the coronavirus in northern Italy forced Claudia Bagnarelli to make a painful choice.
“To keep visiting my 94-year-old mother, I needed to stop seeing everyone else in my life,” Bagnarelli, a Jewish ballet teacher …
By Ben Sales
Aboud Dandachi isn’t Jewish. Or Israeli. Or Italian. Or sick with coronavirus.
He’s a Muslim from Syria living in Canada.
But when he read the Jewish Telegraphic Agency story about an Italian boy whose bar mitzvah was …
By Ben Sales*
Ruben Golran had studied for a year and a half in anticipation of this week, when 600 of his relatives and friends were supposed to converge on Milan to celebrate his bar mitzvah.
First he planned to …
By AFP*
The March 2 unsealing of the archives of Pope Pius XII, the controversial World War II-era pontiff, whose papacy lasted from 1939 to 1958, has been awaited for decades by Jewish groups and historians.
The controversy over Pius …
By Carlin Romano*
For most Americans familiar with Italian Jewry, the images that linger come from Vittorio De Sica’s evocative 1971 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, the Academy Award-winning picture based on Italian writer Giorgio Bassani’s prize-winning 1962 novel. …
*JTA
Christians and Jews in Milan, Italy, are jointly hosting a Muslim family that fled from the fighting in Syria.
The family of seven from Aleppo immigrated to Italy legally as asylum seekers and are being hosted at an apartment …
By JTA*
More than 15 percent of respondents to a poll in Italy said the Holocaust never happened.
The results are part of the annual Eurispes Italy Report published Thursday. The poll by the non-governmental organization probes Italians’ views on …
By Collen Bary
Anti-Semitic writing was scrawled overnight on the door of a now-deceased member of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a family friend and historian wrote Friday on Facebook.
“Juden Hier,” German for “Jews …
By JTA staff*
Police in the northeast Italian city of Trieste analyzed security videos to identify and arrest a man suspected of vandalizing the city’s synagogue twice in the past few months.
The suspect was accused of breaking two windows …
By Fredric Brandfon*
The earliest example of the fear that Jews might overturn and replace the social order with their own people probably occurred in Rome during the first century CE. A circumstance arose that threatened Roman dominion over the …