By Kobi Nachshoni
An ancient scripture discovered in Florence, Italy, uncovered an old Jewish Italian custom: to marry off several men and women in a mass ceremony on the eve before Passover.
The scripture, that is now being put for …
An Italian couple whose ancestors were forced to hide their faith got married atop the ruins of an ancient synagogue, giving the site its first Jewish wedding in centuries.
Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli tied the knot earlier this week …
By Adrianne Richardson*
Teachers and administrators from Temple Beth Sholom Innovative School in Miami Beach, Temple Judea in Coral Gables, the Michael-Ann Russell JCC in North Miami Beach and the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education recently visited Reggio, …
By Marcy Oster*
The more than one thousand fires which led to the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes have been extinguished, Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Services announced.
The fires, aided by dry and hot weather conditions, …
By Simon Griver*
Israeli big events organisers, which helped stage the Giro last year, told a Tel Aviv conference: “The Giro D’Italia will return to Israel in 2022 and we are in advanced negotiations with the Tour de France.”
He …
By AFP and TOI STAFF*
Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to “hypocritical” Pharisees, a stereotype that fueled centuries of bad blood between Catholics and Jews.
Catholic-Jewish relations blossomed after the Second Vatican …
By James Masters*
The memory of Gino Bartali, the champion cyclist who risked his life to save hundreds of Italian Jews during the Holocaust, is set to be honored with the establishment with a youth leadership school in his name.…
By Carly Silver*
What survives in the archaeological record never ceases to be a marvel. There are a few unique references to Roman women converting to Judaism—inasmuch as one can term that religion as a singular entity in antiquity—in the …
By Daniel Sugarman*
In April 1944, 75 years ago, a group of Jews gathered together for a Pesach Seder like few others.
The setting was Bari, Italy — more precisely, a British army camp in the southern Italian city, established …
By Susan Moore*
There could be no more appropriate period than Passover to turn the spotlight on one of the rarest and least known of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts: the Lombard Haggadah. Produced in Milan in the late 14th century, it …