The Ateneo Veneto, the oldest cultural institute in Venice, has longstanding ties of friendship and collaboration with the Jewish community. These ties deepen “the profound regret” expressed by Dario Calimani, president of the Jewish community, upon learning of a conference …
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 …
Franco Cesana was still a child when he fell in combat to help liberate Italy from Nazi-fascism. On September 14, 1944, his young life was cut short in Picciniera di Gombola, near Modena, in the Emilia Romagna region. Six days …
He is young yet well established, already known to the public yet ready to embark on new journeys that will bring him back on air and out on the waves. Pagine Ebraiche has interviewed Ruben Bondì, born in Rome in …
The Directorate-General for Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape of the Ministry of Culture and the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) signed a protocol to “regulate the activities of excavation, conservation, and restoration of Jewish burial contexts.” At the …
Daphne Barak Erez, one of Israel’s most distinguished legal scholars, has been a justice on the Israeli Supreme Court since 2012 and is a former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is also the author of …
The film producer Marina Piperno, 89, and Luigi Morando Faccini, 84, are partners both in cinema and in life. They have no children. “Our legacy is our movies, they are our past, our present, and our future,” says Marina, a …
In 2017, the Archdiocese of Palermo’s decision to grant the free use of an ecclesiastical property to establish a synagogue made headlines worldwide. The New York Times captured the moment with the headline: “500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim …
After centuries of confinement in the ghetto, the granting of civil rights and freedoms offered Roman Jews the opportunity to build a grand synagogue in that very area, serving as a symbol of their historic shift toward emancipation. The synagogue …
A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) met last week with the Holy See Undersecretary for Relations with States, Mgr. Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski, to share the concerns of Jewish communities about the impact of the media reports on Pope …