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Topic: Italian Jews

April 9, 2013
10:12 am

Illustrative photo of the Great Synagogue of Rome. (photo credit: Efrat Herman/Flash90)

Italian high-school kids deflect anti-Semitic slur

‘Had you been in Auschwitz, you would have been more careful,’ teacher had told inattentive student in class

March 24, 2013
4:45 pm

Italian politician Beppe Grillo (screen capture: Youtube/informazione dal basso)

Rome Jewish leader compares politician to Hitler

President of local community attacks comedian-turned-legislator Bebbe Grillo, who has made anti-Semitic comments

February 19, 2013
10:24 am

In the family for more than a century: Italian Shabbat candelabra (photo: supplied by author)

A candelabra comes home for shabbat

A family heirloom that is helping rekindle the spark that the Spanish Inquisition tried to extinguish

By Barbara Aiello

February 13, 2013
6:48 am

Italian Jews fight over Jewish candidate for parliament

Sharon Nizza, an Italian Israeli, is at the heart of a community dispute due to her support for Berlusconi

November 27, 2012
2:35 am

Italy’s Jewish leaders denounce mounting anti-Semitism

Unusually assertive public statement takes on soaring increases in vandalism, hate speech and outright violence

November 20, 2012
9:07 am

Vandalism at Italian synagogue apparently protests Israeli operation

Entrance to building in Parma splashed with red paint by unknown attackers

November 16, 2012
5:43 pm

Protesters chant anti-Semitic slogans outside Rome synagogue

Mass student protests across Italy include clashes and pro-Palestinian slogans in capital’s Jewish Quarter

November 14, 2012
7:16 pm

Rome’s Jews slam far-right rally

Community calls on city leaders to prevent similar gathering planned for Nov. 25

November 9, 2012
2:20 pm

Bringing the Inquisition’s victims back into the fold

When a rabbi says the real Jews are the dead ones

By Barbara Aiello

October 21, 2012
11:28 pm

Historian Ariel Toaff prepares to taste a goose roasted in the style of medieval Italian Jews in Bevagna, Italy. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Medieval Italian banquet resurrects forgotten Jewish delicacies

Goose — known to some as ‘the Jewish pig’ — among the ancient recipes back on the menu in small Umbria town

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

October 17, 2012
4:00 pm

Italian prime minister says he will stand by country’s Jews

Leader makes promise at ceremony commemorating deportation of Rome Jewry during Holocaust

October 11, 2012
1:02 am

Italian president joins Rome’s Jews in marking ’82 attack

Palestinian terrorists killed a Jewish toddler in the assault on city’s main synagogue

October 3, 2012
12:47 am

Used for centuries as a church, the former synagogue in Trani, Italy, has returned to its original role as a Jewish house of worship. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

In southern Italy, long-lost Jews return to the fold

A burgeoning community rediscovers the religion its ancestors were forced to abandon centuries ago