One day in June of 1858, a policeman arrived at the home of Momolo and Marianna Mortara in Bologna, Italy, to take away their six-year-old son, Edgardo. The Mortaras were Jewish, but years before their Catholic maid had secretly baptized Edgardo when he was very sick, and she thought he would die. At the time, […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party, who was elected May 5 and is the first Muslim to lead a European capital city, said in an Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post that he would do more than his predecessors to protect his Jews.