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A view of Rome, Italy, April 1, 2024. Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images.

Food vendor in Rome tells Jewish customer ‘Hitler was right’

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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

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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...

New York City mayor in Rome: Faith builds ‘strong beliefs in oneself’

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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

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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...
The traditional menorah is placed in the Western Wall Plaza in preparation for Chanukah, Dec. 13, 2022. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

2,000 years later, search for Second Temple menorah continues

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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. Let's jump to the latest development...
Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Rome event to address Vatican’s ‘historical, theological controversies’ during the Holocaust

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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...
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,...

Brown University project is digitizing 10,000 ancient Israel inscriptions

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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...
Saul Friedlander in 2008. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Holocaust survivor awarded Balzan Prize honoring scientific achievements

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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...

April 7, 529: The Code of Justinian was issued on this date

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The Code of Justinian, the first of four parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”) compiled by command of Justinian I, the Emperor of Rome, was issued on this date in 529. Among its...