Just 50 yards from the Trevi Fountain, in the heart of old Rome, is a new kosher fast food spot and pizzeria. Da Michele is the newest of a flowering of restaurants, fast-food outlets, groceries, ...

Many in the Libyan-Jewish diaspora know that even if they return to Libya some day, they would never again be able to visit the graves of their parents, grandparents or other loved ones who lived in ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of different ...

EVIL AGAIN. THE SISTERS ARE WELL KNOWN IN ITALY AS DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK FOUND OUT WHILE WALKING THROUGH ROME’S JEWISH GHETTO. IT’S A PLACE WHERE BEAUTY AND TRAGEDY INTERTWINE, AND WHERE ONE ONLY HAS TO ...

Research in the archive of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome has uncovered a list of the names of thousands of Jewish people who found shelter from Nazi persecution in Catholic religious ...

From crisp and velvety fried artichokes to honey-soaked matzo fritters studded with pine nuts and raisins, the Jews of Rome have a centuries-long passion for frying food. This obsession is evident ...

But there was little Moscato could do when the rundown area experienced a contemporary renaissance, leading to a real-estate boom that attracted wealthy buyers and uprooted longtime residents like ...

Rome’s Jewish quarter was attacked by fascist hoodlums this week-end–the first such attack in years–and the angered Jews promptly beat back the hooligans, beating many of them and overturning their ...

Italian politicians and Jewish leaders have condemned the vandalizing this week of four tiny memorial plaques embedded in sidewalks in front of apartment buildings where Roman Jews were living when ...