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Rabbini italiani

Chevrà Sharè Shamaìm is a study group led by Rav David E. Sciunnach. It gathers every week to study the Torah and its commentaries and maintains a website dedicated to…

Farewell to Bianca Guidetti Serra

Centro Primo Levi New York wishes to express our deepest solidarity and sorrow to the family, colleagues and friends of Bianca Guidetti Serra, (Torino, August 19, 1919 – Torino, June…

The Time Fate Gave Us: 1938-1947

Group photo: 1938 This is the story of a group of young, ordinary people who happened to live, as Silvio Ortona put it, at an extraordinary time and who had…

Memorie Ebraiche

A multimedia Archive of the Jewish Community of Rome Memorie Ebraiche is an internet portal documenting the history of Roman Jewry since the liberation of the city in 1944. Through…

The Invention of the Jewish Community in Italy

Publication event: The registries of three Italian Jewish communities May 12, 2014   Hevrat yehudè Italia lif’eulà ruhanit, Rehov Hillel 25, Jerusalem Y. Yudlov, Il Registro della comunità di Casale Monferrato,…

Books Within Books

Books Within Books: Mauro Perani, passionate archeologist of the written word. Alessandro Cassin     One sensational discovery – in our media driven world – can spread the excitement from…

Qabbalat Shabbat

QABBALAT SHABBAT | Shiru Shir: The Cantorial Tradition of the Libyan Jews. Conversation with David Meghnagi April 25  | Tefilla  7:00 pm |  Dinner 8:00 pm Congregation Magen David of…

Festa del Libro Ebraico

        Festa del Libro Ebraico brings Ferrara front and center of Italian Jewish Life Alessandro Cassin Between April 26 and May 1, the city of Ferrara, (31miles…

Gender and Anti-Semitism

        Gender and Anti-Semitism Women’s Rights Yesterday and Today April 10 at 5:00 pm The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America 1161 Amsterdam Avenue Free and…

This week in New York

        Mauro Perani (University of Bologna) will speak to students and faculty at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, room 513, West…