https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to "hypocritical" Pharisees, a stereotype that fuelled centuries of bad blood between Catholics and Jews. https://www.thelocal.it/20190512/pope-francis-warned-off-anti-semitic-pharisee-stereotype Sun, 12 May 2019 13:12:45 +0200 pope-francis-warned-off-anti-semitic-pharisee-stereotype UPDATED: Italian authorities said on Friday that security would be increased at “sensitive” sites across the country after a Jewish man was repeatedly stabbed on a street in Milan on Thursday night. https://www.thelocal.it/20151113/jewish-man-stabbed-in-milan-street-attack Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:56:25 +0100 jewish-man-stabbed-in-milan-street-attack Italian diplomats were forced to intervene on Wednesday morning after an Italian TV crew and the leader of Rome’s Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, became trapped in Auschwitz overnight after filming at the former concentration camp. https://www.thelocal.it/20150128/italian-tv-crew-trapped-in-auschwitz-overnight Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:34:00 +0100 italian-tv-crew-trapped-in-auschwitz-overnight Rome has a new walk on its historical tourism circuit: a virtual stroll through the streets of the ghetto to which Jews were confined for more than three centuries. https://www.thelocal.it/20141205/rome-unveils-virtual-tour-through-the-ghetto Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:11:00 +0100 rome-unveils-virtual-tour-through-the-ghetto The foreign ministers of Italy, Germany and France on Tuesday condemned anti-Semitic slurs and violence at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Europe and pledged to take firm action. https://www.thelocal.it/20140723/anti-semitism-has-no-place-in-our-societies Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:43:00 +0200 anti-semitism-has-no-place-in-our-societies Jews in Italy have seen walls smeared with swastikas and had pig's heads delivered to their doors in recent months, but the head of the Jewish Community, Riccardo Pacifici, insists Italy remains a much better place to be Jewish than many other European countries. https://www.thelocal.it/20140326/italy-is-an-island-of-happiness-for-jews Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:27:00 +0100 italy-is-an-island-of-happiness-for-jews Riccardo Pacifici, who lost his grandparents at the Auschwitz concentration camp, presides over Rome’s Jewish Community. The Local finds out why he was in the news this week. https://www.thelocal.it/20140307/the-jewish-group-chief-who-lost-family-at-auschwitz Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:55:00 +0100 the-jewish-group-chief-who-lost-family-at-auschwitz A box containing a pig’s head was sent to the home of Riccardo Pacifici, the president of the Rome Jewish Community, days after similar packages were sent to the city’s synagogue and museum. https://www.thelocal.it/20140306/pigs-head-sent-to-home-of-jewish-group-chief Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:10:00 +0100 pigs-head-sent-to-home-of-jewish-group-chief Israel has accused Italy, Britain, France and Spain of being pro-Palestinian after they summoned their Israeli ambassadors in a row over plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank. https://www.thelocal.it/20140117/israel-slams-italy-for-pro-palestine-bias Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:30:00 +0100 israel-slams-italy-for-pro-palestine-bias In the latest in a series of anti-Semitic acts linked to football rivalries in Rome, offensive stickers showing Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp, wearing an AS Roma shirt, have been emblazoned across the city. https://www.thelocal.it/20131206/football-fans-use-anne-frank-in-anti-jewish-dig-against-rivals Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:04:00 +0100 football-fans-use-anne-frank-in-anti-jewish-dig-against-rivals Barbara Aeillo is Italy's first and only female rabbi. The daughter of a German death camp liberator, she speaks to The Local about rediscovering her own Calabrian roots as well as her mission of helping Italians who have lost their Jewish heritage to embrace theirs. https://www.thelocal.it/20131014/a-rabbi-helps-italians-find-their-jewish-roots Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:30:00 +0200 a-rabbi-helps-italians-find-their-jewish-roots