The Italian Jewish community has expressed dismay and unease following Pope Francis’ decision to display a Nativity scene in the Vatican featuring the infant Jesus resting on a cloth evocative of the Palestinian keffiyeh. This is not new within ecclesiastical …
The year 2025 will mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate (Latin for “In Our Time,”) the document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s approach to non-Christian religions with a specific section devoted to Judaism. Antisemitism, the document declared, has no …
The first record of the Jewish presence in Turin dates to 1424. Over the course of six centuries, this community has experienced a history rich in culture, but also marked by suffering, discrimination, exclusion, and atrocities. Yet, it has also …
Ten years ago, the Israeli Parliament set November 30 as a day to commemorate the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran. Between 1948 and 1970, 800,000 Jews were forced to leave their ancestral homes in North Africa, the …
“The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women has come and gone this year in total and shameful silence from Italian and international feminist organizations regarding Jewish women still held captive by Hamas terrorists,” declared Susanna Sciaky, national …
In 2014, on the centennial of the Di Castro Sinagogue, Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni described the place known as the “Temple in Via Balbo” as something fundamentally different from the Great Synagogue, which was completed a decade earlier. …
Maffeo Pantaleoni, a prominent Italian economist and jurist of the early 20th century, was also a relentless antisemite dedicated to spreading the lies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’s. Despite his notable contributions to economics, the stain of …
Tamar Herzig, an Israeli historian specializing in Renaissance history, has spent over a year publicly challenging the silence from some parts of the feminist movement, including in Italy, regarding the atrocities of October 7. She observes that there was “a …
It is a challenging time for Israeli tourism. Apart from the national airline, few carriers currently operate flights to and from Israel, and active conflicts in the region further complicate the situation. “But next year will be a year of …
More than 1,500 rare printed volumes from the Jewish community of Mantua have been cataloged as part of the international I-TAL-YA Books project, led by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI). Architectural photographer and visual artist Giulia Flavia …