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Giorgia Meloni.

Italian Jews worry and wait as Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader, prepares to take power

Meloni would be Italy’s first female prime minister, and head of its first far-right government since World War II, when it allied with Hitler’s Germany.

By Simone Somekh September 30, 2022 2:45 pm

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The Mantua armory covered in grass

Mantua, Italy, to get Jewish museum on burial site of 17th-century Kabbalist masters

The site was a graveyard for Mantua’s Jewish community for centuries. Then Nazis took it over. Then it was neglected for decades.

January 6, 2022 5:18 pm

Leading mayoral candidate in Rome apologizes for Holocaust comments decried as antisemitic

Why are victims of mass murders other than the Holocaust less widely remembered? “Perhaps because they did not own banks,” Enrico Michetti wrote last year.

October 11, 2021 12:01 am

Guests attend the Kitty Spencer and Michael Lewis wedding at Villa Aldo Brandini in Frascati, Italy on July 24, 2021. (Ernesto Ruscio/GC Images)

Princess Diana’s niece marries fashion tycoon of South African Jewish descent

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 2, 2021 12:19 pm

Passengers traveling on the Stresa-Mottarone cable car in July 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

5 Israelis from one family among 14 dead in cable car crash in Italy

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 23, 2021 11:10 pm

A ship docks at the port of Livorno, Italy on april 14, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons)

Italian dockworkers walk back brief Israel boycott action

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 20, 2021 11:30 am

A recent photo of Ruben Golran, whose bar mitzvah in February 2020 was canceled due to early COVID restrictions in Italy. He celebrated in synagogue almost exactly a year later. (Courtesy of Elia Golran)

In Italy, a belated bar mitzvah celebration gives way to renewed virus fears

By Ben Sales March 22, 2021 10:57 am

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6 prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 2, 2020 3:32 pm

Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 1, 2020 5:40 pm

A man rides a bike in front of a synagogue in Turin, Italy, March 18, 2020. (Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)

Joy, fear and sorrow mix for Italian Jews returning to synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 20, 2020 10:09 am

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