Tag: Rome
Vatican reversal on Nativity display is a setback for ‘Palestinian Jesus’
It was disturbing, but not that surprising, to learn the Vatican recently allowed a Nativity scene on its premises depicting a “Palestinian Jesus.” This falsified myth has been around for decades and always seems...
Food vendor in Rome tells Jewish customer ‘Hitler was right’
A video clip circulating widely on social media has highlighted the concerning normalization of overt antisemitism on European streets, demonstrating how the multi-front war against Israel has emboldened public displays of anti-Jewish sentiment across the continent.
The...
Rome Jews ask Meloni to act against youth group Jew-hatred
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...
New York City mayor in Rome: Faith builds ‘strong beliefs in oneself’
New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited the Great Synagogue of Rome and its museum in Rome’s Jewish Quarter on Sunday.
“It was unbelievable there for over 300 years that Jewish area was a wall...
No ancient Roman racism, says Ramaswamy at Jewish spoils-funded Colosseum
There was no “racism” in ancient Rome, when “emperors were white, black, Arab, didn’t matter,” former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on Sunday.
The entrepreneur posted photos on social media on Sunday of him and his family...
2,000 years later, search for Second Temple menorah continues
The possibility that the menorah used in the Second Temple in Jerusalem is hidden deep in the cellars of the Vatican has excited researchers, rabbis and adventurers for generations.
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Rome event to address Vatican’s ‘historical, theological controversies’ during the Holocaust
Historians and theologians will gather in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University from Oct. 9 to Oct. 11 to discuss the meaning of documents about the Vatican’s activities during the Holocaust, which the pope...
Evidence that ancient Jews watched, but didn’t participate in, gladiatorial games
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,...
Brown University project is digitizing 10,000 ancient Israel inscriptions
A 1,500 to 2,100-year-old Hebrew text from Jerusalem refers to “Shalom, mother of the synagogue.” And two burial niche inscriptions from Beit She’arim in the Galilee, both dated 250 to 350 C.E., refer in Greek to “Sara daughter...
Holocaust survivor awarded Balzan Prize honoring scientific achievements
A historian and Israeli-French-American Holocaust survivor was one of the recipients of this year’s international Balzan Prizes, which recognizes distinguished scholars, artists and scientists.
Saul Friedlander, 88, was awarded the prize for Holocaust and Genocide Studies for...