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Italian Jews

Giorgia Meloni is seen holding a placard that says, in Italian, "Thanks Italy," Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Valeria Ferraro-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Italian Jews worry and wait as Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader, prepares to take power

Simone Somekh by Simone Somekh and JTA September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

The success of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party in Italy’s national election last week means the country is poised to have its most right-wing government since World War II, […]

Patients lay in beds in the “Syndrome K” unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital. (Photo/JTA-“Syndrome K”-Freestyle Digital Media)
Posted inCulture

To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease

by Stephen Silver and JTA August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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Which European countries are best for Jews? A new study offers unexpected answers.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 21, 2022June 21, 2022
A guard climbs stairs by the entrance to the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo, or former Jewish Ghetto, in Venice. (Photo/JTA-Orge Castellano)
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Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance

Orge Castellano by Orge Castellano and JTA April 22, 2022
Audrey Hepburn at Horn & Hardart, an automat chain that is the subject of the documentary "The Automat."
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‘The Automat’ documentary with Mel Brooks and RBG opens; Celebrating Italian Jewish food; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
Esther Cohen is flanked by her husband Samuel (left) and German President Joachim Gauck in Ioannina, Greece, March 7, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Wolfgang Kumm-picture alliance via Getty Images)
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6 of Europe’s most prominent Holocaust survivors have died over the past month

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 2020
Peppers, Eggplant and Onions in Tomato Sauce over Polenta. (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inJewish Life

My Hungarian-Italian bubbe’s sauce is perfect on polenta

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer November 4, 2020
Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite Covid, synagogues across Europe will still open to non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
Rabbi Menachem Lazar, right, officiates at the wedding of Marco Del Monte and Elinor Hanoka at the Great Synagogue of Rome, June 7, 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad Piazza Bologna)
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Rome Jews celebrate first Jewish wedding after lockdown

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 10, 2020
Jews pray at the Noam synagogue in Milan, Italy, May 20, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Daniel Reichel)
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Joy, fear and sorrow mix for Italian Jews returning to synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 20, 2020

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