By Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello*
In the Torah, we read the commandment and the description of the first seder in our history, the first night of the eternal ceremony that marks the liberation of our people. There are many differences between …
By Susanna Calimani*
10 easy rules to survive Pesach:
1. Empty the pockets of jackets and bags you want to use during Pesach, or you will find them full of… “dust”.
2. Make sure to buy at least one bottle …
By Daniel Leisawitz*
The results of the Italian elections on March 4 were both surprising and predictable. The upstart populist party, Movimento 5 Stelle, was predicted to do well, and indeed it did, gathering the highest number of votes of …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
The urge to know the Divine without the mediation of words or prophets, traditional texts or individuals sanctioned by tradition with the duty to channel God’s word to the people, is a well- known fact in Western …
By Susanna Calimani*
Last week I opened Facebook, it was already the third time that day. I check my newsfeed multiple times a day out of boredom: in the metro, in the elevator, while waiting for colleagues in the canteen. …
By Daniela Fubini
Here we go again: the Italian elections are approaching, and my Italian ear is close to deaf. I have plenty of good excuses: extremely entertaining local politics which never fail to reach higher level of noise and …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
Purim is a rather complex ideological construction, founded on a number of canonical themes such as good and evil and the blurring thereof, the hiding of God’s face in history, Divine will versus destiny (“pur”), et al. …
By Susanna Calimani
A law has recently been passed by the Polish Parliament’s Lower House criminalizing any mention of Polish crimes or complicity during the Shoah. As a consequence, all of a sudden, concentration and death camps will lose their …
By David Bidussa*
“Just words count. The rest is chattert”, said Eugene Ionesco. Only convictions exist. Slips of the tongue don’t.
*David Bidussa is a historian.…
By Daniela Fubini
It started already. The annual Italian stream of consciousness on social and regular media: new shocking or plainly realistic testimonials, old books being revamped by the random editor who wants to be part of the memory business, …