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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Rossella Tercatin

A group visiting the Villa Torlonia Jewish Catacombs guided by Amir Genach, center. (courtesy Amir Genach)
March 1, 2019, 11:40 pm
In Rome, spectacular ancient Jewish catacomb’s opening haunted by delays
Under the sprawling estate of Villa Torlonia, Mussolini’s home for 18 years, is a 4th century cemetery housing some 3,800 Jewish graves. The question now is, when can they be seen?
By Rossella Tercatin
The author and her husband on a break during the ride from Ulan Ude to Vladivostok at the Skovorodinskiy Rayon Station. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)
February 1, 2019, 3:02 pm
Our 10,000 kilometer, kosher Trans-Siberian honeymoon
The legendary rail journey across Russia allows tourists to see towns, nature and Jewish communities in action — and can easily be done without breaking Judaism’s dietary laws
By Rossella Tercatin
A group of Jews from Irkutsk inside the synagogue. (Eli Itkin/ Dorit Wagner/The Jewish Community of Irkutsk)
November 17, 2018, 3:51 am
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during a parade celebrating their alliance. (Public domain)
September 5, 2018, 5:20 pm
Italian universities to apologize for expelling Jewish staff, students in WWII
Eight decades after a widespread Fascist purge of Jews from academic institutions, universities to hold memorial ceremony on September 20
By Rossella Tercatin
The reproduction of a chamber in the Vigna Randanini Catacombs. From left to right: President of Italy Sergio Mattarella, historian Anna Foa (one of the exhibition's curators), MEIS president Dario Disegni, former Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini, architect Giovanni Tortelli. (Marco Caselli Nirmal/ Courtesy MEIS)
July 14, 2018, 9:50 am
Jump through time at Ferrara’s newly opened Museum of Italian Judaism
$55 million complex takes visitors on an immersive journey through the millennia — from Abraham, to the Temple Period, to Benjamin Metudela, through the Holocaust and today
By Rossella Tercatin
Imam Salahuddin Barakat, left, and rabbi Moshe David Hacohen. (Courtesy of: Amanah, the Muslim and Jewish Trust and Faith Project)
April 5, 2018, 11:51 pm
In infamous Malmo, a rabbi and imam seed trust with audacious grassroots project
New dialogue efforts between an Israeli settler and Yemen-trained imam forge bridges in the Swedish city with an international bad rep for its roiling immigrant community
By Rossella Tercatin
Marco Cohen (left) and Benedetto Habib at the Venice Film Festival, where they premiered their upcoming movie, 'The Leisure Seeker.' (Courtesy)
October 23, 2017, 2:18 am
Friends since day school, these Italian producers now play on the red carpet
Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib joke about life in their Milan classroom and their seriously good first English-language movie, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland
By Rossella Tercatin
Rabbis and locals at the Sukkot event at the Museo del Cedro (Citron Museum) in Santa Maria del Cedro. Holding the lulav is rabbi Moshe Lazar. (Credit: Photographer Pino Lo Tufo. Courtesy of Angelo Adduci)
October 4, 2017, 8:11 pm
In Calabria, rabbis and farmers continue a 2,000-year-old etrog tradition
Locals have seen Jews coming to harvest the cherished fruits from time immemorial, and welcome them as family and a key economic mainstay
By Rossella Tercatin
Director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, left, and Director of Rome's Jewish Museum Alessandra Di Castro pose for a photo in front of a bas-relief showing a menorah at the end of a press conference in Rome, Monday, February 20, 2017. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
May 14, 2017, 2:39 am
Can Vatican display shed light on the fate of the Menorah?
Starting Monday, a co-hosted exhibit about sacred Temple relic sets a new precedent for cooperation between the Holy See and Rome’s Jewish community
By Rossella Tercatin
Rabbi Ariel Finzi, second from right, with Episcopal Vicar Raffaele Mangano (far left), Shavei Israel chairman Michael Freund (left of Finzi), and vice president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Giulio Disegni in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
February 2, 2017, 12:58 am
500 years after being wiped out, Sicilian Jewish life is reborn
A vibrant community was expelled from Sicily under the Spanish Inquisition in 1493. What is causing residents to rediscover their hidden roots today?
By Rossella Tercatin
About 1,500 people took part in the Run for Mem on January 22, which commemorated persecution sites from the Holocaust. (Courtesy Moked.it/Pagine Ebraiche)
January 27, 2017, 4:34 pm
Running for the past, athletes trek to Holocaust race in Rome
With 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and Munich Olympian Shaul Ladany, the Run for Mem took participants past historical Nazi persecution sights throughout the city
By Rossella Tercatin
The 'Hanukkah Lights: History, Art and Design' exhibit at the Triennale in Milan. (Gianluca Di Ioia/ La Triennale di Milano)
December 28, 2016, 3:03 am
Menorah exhibit brightens prospects for tiny Italian Jewish community
Jews have lived in Casale Monferrato since the 16th century, but with young people seeking prosperity elsewhere, natives turned to art to put the town on the map
By Rossella Tercatin
Torah scrolls unrolled to dry in the great synagogue of Rome. (Courtesy of Opera del Tempio)
November 30, 2016, 8:53 pm
50 years ago, ‘mud angels’ came to flooded Florence to save centuries of Jewish history
Residents mark the anniversary of the 1966 disaster which decimated the city, damaging 90 Torah scrolls and 15,000 holy texts
By Rossella Tercatin
A 'breathing' building for the port city of Ashdod. (Rossella Tercatin/TImes of Israel)
October 6, 2016, 2:36 am
At Venice Biennale, Israeli pavilion merges art and science
In a tribute to the Jewish state’s resilience, biology meets architecture to introduce nature’s strengths into mankind’s inventions
By Rossella Tercatin
Refugees are provided a place to sleep, a breakfast, and a to-go lunch before leaving for the day at the Holocaust Memorial beneath Milan's Central Train Station. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)
August 11, 2016, 4:45 am
Italian Holocaust memorial begins second year as migrant shelter
Beneath Milan’s Central Station lies a makeshift haven for fleeing refugees — housed in a Nazi-era train platform that deported Jews to death camps
By Rossella Tercatin
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