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Marchers take part in the Roma Pride parade in Rome, June 11, 2022. (Camelia Boban/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inWorld

Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Simone Somekh by Simone Somekh May 29, 2026May 29, 2026

(JTA) — Organizers of Rome’s annual Pride parade have barred Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organization from marching with a float at this year’s June 20 parade, although they are still […]

Family of five in front of a stone arch
Posted inOpinion

My family trip to Israel made me realize I’ve felt so alone

Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman by Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman February 21, 2024February 22, 2024
Artist aleXsandro Palombo painted several images of characters from "The Simpsons" on the outside of Milan's central train station. (Photo/Courtesy Palombo)
Posted inWorld

Pop artist paints ‘Simpsons’ characters as Holocaust victims outside Milan Holocaust memorial

by David I. Klein and JTA January 30, 2023
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
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)
Posted inWorld

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
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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