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 The 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto is to be marked by an unprecedented performance of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice", in the neighbourhood to which the city's Jews were confined for centuries, organisers said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160310/shakespeare-first-to-mark-500-years-of-venice-ghetto Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:05:20 +0100 shakespeare-first-to-mark-500-years-of-venice-ghetto Carlo Tavecchio, the president of the Italian Football Federation, is back under the spotlight for allegedly making discriminatory comments about Jews and gay people. https://www.thelocal.it/20151102/italy-football-chief-insults-jews-and-gays Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:10:02 +0100 italy-football-chief-insults-jews-and-gays Italy said on Tuesday it is expelling a Moroccan imam caught on video inciting violence against Jews during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. https://www.thelocal.it/20140805/italy-expels-moroccan-over-death-to-jews-rant Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:34:00 +0200 italy-expels-moroccan-over-death-to-jews-rant Hungary's new ambassador to Rome - who once called Jews "agents of Satan" - stepped down on Friday amid mounting protests over his appointment. https://www.thelocal.it/20140725/no-rome-job-for-anti-semitic-diplomat Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:36:00 +0200 no-rome-job-for-anti-semitic-diplomat Andrea Zunino, a spokesman for Pitchfork, the movement behind a wave of anti-austerity protests across Italy this week, said the country is a "now a slave of the bankers, like Rothschild" and that "five of the world’s six richest people are Jews". https://www.thelocal.it/20131213/italy-is-a-slave-of-jewish-bankers Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:03:00 +0100 italy-is-a-slave-of-jewish-bankers Italy's former premier Silvio Berlusconi, who blames his tax fraud conviction on persecution by magistrates, says his children "feel like the Jews under Hitler." https://www.thelocal.it/20131106/berlusconi-my-children-feel-like-the-jews-under-hitler Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:35:00 +0100 berlusconi-my-children-feel-like-the-jews-under-hitler As Italy marks 70 years since Rome Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, the country's Senate has put forward a motion to make Holocaust denial a crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20131016/italy-may-criminalize-holocaust-denial Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:33:00 +0200 italy-may-criminalize-holocaust-denial 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 The Israeli Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, has honoured an Italian cyclist who risked his life to save Jews during the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20130924/tour-de-france-champ-saved-jews-in-wwii Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:15:00 +0200 tour-de-france-champ-saved-jews-in-wwii