Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
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Fast Forward Milan Demonstrators Protest ‘Anti-Semitic’ Far Right Wing Rally
ROME (JTA) – Hundreds of people took part in a counter-demonstration in central Milan to protest an ultra-rightwing rally held in another downtown location. The two demonstrations Saturday took place about two miles apart, and no incidents were reported. Local media said the counter-demonstrators greatly outnumbered those at the far-right rally organized by the Forza Nuova movement….
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Calls for New Peace Talks After Meeting Mahmoud Abbas
ROME (JTA) – Pope Francis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for renewed direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority during a meeting at the Vatican. Abbas warned against moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, telling reporters: “If this is the decision, to transfer the embassy to Jerusalem, it will not help peace and…
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Fast Forward Milan Jews Object to Planned Rally by Far-Right Movement
ROME (JTA) – Italian Jewish leaders warned against a neo-fascist rally planned for Saturday in Milan. In a joint statement, the president of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni, and the leaders of the Milan Jewish community called the planned rally by the far-right Forza Nuova movement “a dangerous initiative, promoted…
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Fast Forward Sicily Church Agrees To Share Building With Jewish Community
(JTA) –The Roman Catholic Church in Palermo is ceding to Jewish ownership the use of part of a church and monastery complex built atop the ruins of a medieval synagogue. The move is being viewed as a gesture of reconciliation more than 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Sicily. The church will finance…
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Fast Forward Italian Jews and Israel Help Homeless Earthquake Victims
(JTA) – Italian Jews joined the IsraAID non-profit organization in bringing help to people in central Italy who remain homeless after earthquakes last summer and fall. A delegation from the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, and IsraAID visited the earthquake zone in recent days and delivered thermal blankets, jackets, shoes, portable heaters and…
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Fast Forward Santa Monica Chabad Center Is Vandalized
SANTA MONICA, California (JTA) – Police are investigating a vandalism attack on a Chabad center in Santa Monica. Unknown persons smeared feces and rice on the window of the Living Torah Center on Wilshire Blvd., either late Saturday night or early Sunday, the first day of Hanukkah. Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz discovered the defacement when he opened the center…
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The Schmooze That Time I Wrote a Letter to John Glenn — and His Touching Response Back
(JTA) — The early astronauts were real heroes to us earthbound, space-struck kids, and to this particular stargazing dreamer, John Glenn was the most heroic of them all. He may not have been Jewish, but he was definitely a mensch. When I was in elementary school in suburban Philadelphia, I had a vivid, almost cinematic…
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Fast Forward Italian Soccer Coach Seeks To Step Back From Support for Facsism
ROME — A former Italian soccer player who was suspended as a TV commentator after displaying on air a pro-Fascist tattoo says he repudiates “anti-Semitic, racist, discriminatory, and violent” views. Paolo Di Canio made his statement in a letter to Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, saying…
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