At sessions of the Fascist Grand Council, members are encouraged, even forced, to criticize the policies of the Government. After that the Dictator, who has silently digested the views of Fascist best ...

Not even 70 years after Italy unified, Benito Mussolini’s staged march on Rome so unnerved the government that King Victor ...

In 2021, my husband, son, and I left the chaos of Los Angeles for the peaceful hills of Tuscany. Settling in Florence with our eight-year-old son felt like a dream. But that dream began to unravel on ...

Generosity and compassion for those fleeing persecution prevailed over racial laws and centuries-old anti-Semitic prejudices in Nazi-occupied Italy, some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an ...

Traveling abroad as open and proud Jews may seem a risky proposition these days, given the dramatic uptick of anti-Jewish sentiment worldwide. Yet my husband, Arnold, and I found our Jewish heritage ...

Panelists open the conference “New Documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII” at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Oct. 9, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ROME (CNS) — Generosity and ...

A call from the Italian Jewish community to the authorities to exercise “great firmness” in dealing with attempts to re-awaken Fascism today marked the 20th anniversary this month of the promulgation ...

MILANMILAN — An Italian Jewish leader on Tuesday protested a citation of Holocaust survivor Primo Levi on flyers for a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Italian capital on Saturday, ...

When Italy’s national soccer team faces Spain in the final game of the European Soccer Championship, Italian Jews will have a special reason to cheer. Mario Balotelli, the black Italian soccer star ...

Renaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward Jews. Unlike England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, the princely courts of early modern Italy ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's Jewish community, some of whom were forced to leave Libya 40 years ago, are angry over Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's apparent willingness to meet them only on Saturday, the ...