“We are heading towards Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27th with great concern because, after October 7th, it cannot be celebrated just like it was in the past years. The consistency and use of the most important words that mark …
As the youngest Israeli hostage in Gaza, Kfir Bibas, turned 1, Italian Jews mobilized in his name, calling for his liberation. Two sit-ins were promoted in Rome in via Catalana, in front of the Great Synagogue, and in Milan in …
Italian linguist Tullio De Mauro once argued that “the destruction of language is the premise for any future destruction.”His words were quoted by Saul Meghnagi, coordinator of the UCEI Culture Committee, during the presentation of the project “Il significato delle …
Accused of plagiarism, criticized for her handling of incidents of anti-Semitism on her campus, Claudine Gay recently announced her resignation from her post as dean of Harvard. The first black woman to lead the Ivy League institution, Gay fell “victim …
Giacomo Anticoli was born into an old and large Jewish family in Rome. In 1928 he was hired as a driver and head usher at the Italian Ministry of National Education, and then was relocated to the Italian National Research …
An artistic installation was set in Rome to remember the hundred days of hell for the Israeli hostages, who from October 7, have been held in Gaza since the terrorist action of Hamas on the soil of the Jewish state. …
The president of Rome’s Jewish community, Victor Fadlun, condemned as “an unacceptable outrage” the Fascist salutes at a ceremony marking the 46th anniversary of the deaths of three far-right activists. The ceremony took place outside the former headquarters of the …
Elena Rossi Artom, historical memory of the Italian community in Israel and wife of the Rabbi of Turin Menachem Emanuele Artom (1916-1992), died in Israel. She was born in Ancona in 1920 and at the age of 4 moved to …
After centuries of oblivion, in 2023 Hanukkah’s lights beamed again in Catania, the historic port city on Sicily’s east coast. It was an exciting new beginning, said to Pagine Ebraiche Moshe Ben Simon, an Israeli who moved to Sicily some …
General Pasquale Angelosanto is to be appointed as the national coordinator for the fight against antisemitism, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced. Former commander of the Carabinieri military police Special Operations Group (ROS) from 2017 to 2023, General Angelosanto replaces …