By Anna Foa
On June 9, 1937, 81 years ago, two antifascist Jews, the Rosselli brothers, were killed by hit men belonging to the right-wing extremist French movement La Cagoule in Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, Normandy. It was the Italian fascist regime which …
By David Bidussa*
While trying to understand what is happening right now, I re-read the “Letter concerning fanaticism” by Shaftesbury (1708, Chiarelettere publisher), in which the author states that refusing to be in a good mood means that there is …
By Daniela Fubini*
One of the things that keeps new and old immigrants connected with the original country, especially when you are an Italian and you live anywhere else on the globe is naturally the food.
Luckily, Italian food is …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
When I was recently asked to write something on the weekly Torah portion (parashah) of Balak, the moment came when I had to face one of the most difficult sections in the Scriptures from the point of …
By David Bidussa*
I think that, in her latest book (Marranos, Einaudi), Donatella Di Cesare sees Marranism as an issue concerning modernity and anyone, Jewish or not, when she writes that “the marrano becomes the matrix of the modern Jew …
By Daniela Fubini*
How truly wonderful it is to have multiple nationalities and sometimes almost parallel lives across the continents and the seas. One of the great advantages is that you can tune out one of the nationalities and feel …
By Sandro De Bernardin*
“As Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, I was dismayed and very worried by the comments made by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on 2 May in which he used antisemitic stereotypes in public discourse, …
By Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello*
When the Jews are invited to read or to bless a Torah passage, at the end of the reading the audience says goodbye with the expression: “Hazak!”. Usually the full expression is “Hazak veEmatz, be strong …
By Daniel Leisawitz
Last Thursday and Friday, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary. On the one hand seventy years is a long time and major milestone for a small country that started out so precariously. On the other …
By Daniela Fubini*
Commuting by train gives undeniable advantages. Even on the Israeli railways, where the longest possible ride is about four hours long, in the complete absence of fast trains, and with a route map as simple as the …