Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
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Fast Forward Former Italian politician attacked by youths in Venice shouting about Anne Frank
ROME (JTA) — Italian Jewish leaders voiced solidarity with former politician Arturo Scotto, who was punched in the face by youths shouting about Anne Frank in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square on New Year’s Eve. Police in Venice are investigating the incident. Scotto, a former leftist member of parliament who is not Jewish, wrote in a…
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Fast Forward It’s Hanukkah Every Day Of The Year In This Picture-Postcard Italian Town
It’s always Hanukkah in this picturesque town in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Jews have lived in Casale Monferrato for more than 500 years, with the community reaching its peak of 850 members at about the time Jews here were granted civil rights in 1848. The town still boasts one of Italy’s most ornate synagogues, a…
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Fast Forward Stunning Menorah Depictions Are On Display — At The Vatican
(JTA) — An unprecedented exhibit centered on the image, history and symbolism of the seven-branched menorah has opened in Rome. Titled “Menorah: Cult, History and Myth,” the exhibition is a joint project of the Vatican Museum and the Rome Jewish Museum — the first time the two museums have cooperated in this way. It will run…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s ‘Piece Of Crap’ Painting On Display In Italy
ROME (JTA) – A “piece of crap” painting by Adolf Hitler is on display in a recently opened exhibition in northern Italy on the theme of madness. The small, untitled oil painting, on loan from a private German collector and never before exhibited, shows a seated man and a standing man at the front of a long,…
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Fast Forward State-Of-The-Art Jewish Museum Coming To Former Lithuania Shtetl
(JTA) – The architects of Warsaw’s award-winning POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews will design a state-of-the-art Jewish museum outside a former shtetl in Lithuania. The museum, slated to open in 2019, will be part of the “Lost Shtetl” memorial complex inaugurated in 2015 in and around the small town of Šeduva. It…
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Fast Forward Survivor’s Daughter Uncovers Vandalism of Milan ‘Stumbling Stone’ Holocaust Memorial
ROME (JTA) – Vandals defaced one of the “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorials unveiled last week in Milan, covering it with black paint. The vandalism was discovered Saturday by Ornella Coen, the daughter of Dante Coen, the person commemorated by the plaque, who was deported to Auschwitz and then killed at Buchenwald on April 4, 1945. “Stumbling stones,”…
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Fast Forward 1,500 Run in Rome Road Race Highlighting Holocaust History
ROME (JTA) – Hundreds of people ran through the streets of downtown Rome over the weekend to commemorate the Holocaust and look to the future. Dubbed “Run for Mem”, Sunday’s road race was part of a wide range of events on and around International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place on January 27, the anniversary of the 1945…
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Fast Forward Rome Race Will Spotlight Holocaust and Jewish Heritage
ROME (JTA) – A marathon-like race past sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day. The “Run for Mem” — short for “Run for Remembrance: Looking Ahead” — is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 22. International Holocaust Memorial Day is observed on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the 1945…
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