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Western nations calls for restraint in wake of Shukr, Haniyeh killings

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The U.S. and other Western nations have urged restraint amid Israel’s targeted killing of Hezbollah’s No. 2 and the subsequent assassination, allegedly by the Jewish state, of Hamas “political” leader Ismail Haniyeh. Speaking to the...

Rome Jews ask Meloni to act against youth group Jew-hatred

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After a reporter exposed Nazi chants and antisemitic remarks directed at a Jewish Italian senator at the youth movement associated with the party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Roman Jews are calling for...

Israelis refuse to be erased

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It’s time to wake up: We are faced with a wave of catastrophic antisemitism, worse than any since the 1930s, a complete collapse of a society supposedly dedicated to human rights. The wave has...
Prof. Teodoro Valente, president of the Italian Space Agency, speaks at the Ilan Ramon International Space Conference in Herzliya, Jan. 31, 2024. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS.

‘Space diplomacy’ builds bridges on Earth

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As far as Professor Teodoro Valente is concerned, there’s no question that collaboration in space exploration builds bridges on Earth. “We are dealing with ‘space diplomacy,'” said Valente, the president of the Italian Space Agency....
The Duomo at sunrise in Milan, Italy. Credit: ventdusud/Shutterstock.

Two Jews, Jewish group honored with prestigious Milan civic awards

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The publisher Andrea Jarach and psychologist Silvia Vegetti Finzi, both of whom are Jewish, and the Gariwo (“Gardens of the Righteous”) Foundation, which is chaired by the Jewish journalist Gabriele Nissim, are among the...
A synagogue in Siena, Italy. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

More than 100 Italian sites take part in European Day of Jewish Culture

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Italy participated in the 24th annual European Day of Jewish Culture at 101 sites across 16 regions, with Florence serving as the lead city. This year’s event, held on Sept. 9-10, was dedicated to...
The Colosseum in Rome. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Evidence that ancient Jews watched, but didn’t participate in, gladiatorial games

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A new scholarly paper finds “inconclusive” evidence that Jews participated in the ancient Roman gladiatorial games. But it is clear that they defied rabbinic admonitions and attended the games as spectators, wrote Haggai Olshanetsky,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi at his office in Jerusalem. Feb. 1, 2010. Photo by Ariel Jerozolimski/Flash90.

Berlusconi’s revolution in Israel relations

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In many ways, Silvio Berlusconi's colorful personality captured the essence of being Italian, for better or for worse. Or, as La Repubblica put it, he was "the mirror of this strange country." For two decades he was...

Minneapolis art exhibit depicting Chanukah heroine Judith centers on ‘ghastly’ Caravaggio decapitation

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There is no way around the goriness of Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” which the Italian artist painted around 1599. The Chanukah heroine (almost a dead ringer for Scarlett Johansson) is midway through chopping the Assyrian general’s...
A view of Milan, Italy. Credit: Jöshua Barnett/contemplicity.com via Flickr.

Milan honored for helping save Jews from concentration camps during Holocaust

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The city of Milan, Italy, has been named an honorary member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) in recognition of its residents’ efforts to help rescue Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the...