In 2017, the Archdiocese of Palermo’s decision to grant the free use of an ecclesiastical property to establish a synagogue made headlines worldwide. The New York Times captured the moment with the headline: “500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim …
After centuries of confinement in the ghetto, the granting of civil rights and freedoms offered Roman Jews the opportunity to build a grand synagogue in that very area, serving as a symbol of their historic shift toward emancipation. The synagogue …
A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) met last week with the Holy See Undersecretary for Relations with States, Mgr. Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski, to share the concerns of Jewish communities about the impact of the media reports on Pope …
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 …