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ISRAEL – Della Pergola: Negative emigration balance not surprising

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported that in 2024 emigration exceeded immigration by 18,000 people. “This has not happened since the 1980’s,” Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician Sergio Della Pergola, an emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a …

MILAN – Segre: “Welcome culture is the opposite of Nazi violence”

Focusing on welcome does not mean offering “a simplistic solution to serious issues such as migration,” “it’s not a utopian ‘let’s welcome them all’,” but “it is a philosophy of life: not closing ourselves off, not rejecting others outright, not …

BOLOGNA – Israeli flag also on display

It was only when the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into force that the mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore, decided to put the Israeli flag next to the Palestinian one that had been flying in front of the town …

DIALOGUE – Italian rabbis: a critical time with the Church

The Day of Jewish-Christian Dialogue (17 January) has two themes this year. The Jubilee, the theme chosen for this 36th edition, but above all the Jewish world’s alarm at the continuing rift with the Catholic Church. “We are facing a …

BOLOGNA 2/ Police Commissioner Sbordone: “The climate is not good”

The recent violence in Bologna, during a protest originally organised in memory of Ramy Elgaml, has sparked a national debate on street violence, pro-Palestinian movements and anti-Semitism.
According to Antonio Sbordone, the police commissioner of Bologna, the rally was not …

REMEMBRANCE – The Stolpersteine land in Ferrara

“Remembrance cannot be an occasional, celebratory event, but must be an integral part of everyday life.” With these words Fortunato Arbib, president of the Jewish Community of Ferrara, introduced a historic moment for the city: the laying of the first …

ISRAEL – Italkim address the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

We herewith publish a copy of the letter sent by the Hevràt Yehudé Italia Be-Israel, the Community of Italian Jews in Israel, to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, on 31 December 2024.  The letter is signed by …

MILAN – Shoah Memorial, over 300,000 student visits

When the Shoah Memorial in Milan opened, on January 27, 2012, “one of the goals was to get 100,000 students’ visits,” recalls the President of the Shoah Memorial Foundation Roberto Jarach. Eleven years later, he can “proudly say “that those …