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A new study by Sergio Della Pergola: Antisemitism, the perception of the victims

By Daniela Gross

While a first-of-its-kind index recently released by the European Jewish Association unveils the prevalence of antisemitic sentiment in 12 European countries, a new paper by the Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician Sergio Della Pergola, professor at the Hebrew …

Talmud, a new tractate in bookstores

A new piece has been added to the mosaic that is starting to take shape on the instigation of the memorandum of understanding for the Talmud Translation, which was signed in Rome in 2011, under the auspices of Rabbi Adin …

The rules of the Megillah

By Rabbi Michael Ascoli

The tractate of Megillah concerns mainly the rules of public reading and writing of the biblical Book of Esther, the most known among the Megillot or scrolls of Tanakh, also known by definition as “Megillah”. If …

„Rita Levi-Montalcini und ihr Meister”

„Rita Levi-Montalcini und ihr Meister”, der schöne Band von Marco Piccolino, Piera Levi-Montalcini, Maria Gattone, Michele Luzzati, Alberto Cavaglion, Giacomo Magrini, Isabel Murray und Pietro Calissano, wurde gestern auf der Internationalen Buchmesse in Turin unter der Leitung von Piero Bianucci …

Ferragni: “Liliana Segre example of determination”

A photo with Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre, while waiting to visit together the Milan Shoah Memorial. Sharing a pic on her Instagram profile, top Italian fashion influencer and businesswoman Chiara Ferragni said last week that she had …

“Pope a valuable ally against antisemitism”

By Adam Smulevich

It had never happened that a Pope welcomed a president of Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem on a private audience. It is therefore not surprising that Dani Dayan, who has been leading the …

Miro Silvera (1942-2022)

“It can be said that in every house, even the most modest, there is in some corner a cabinet or a drawer full of good medicines for every discomfort. But it does not necessarily have to be even a modest …