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    Getting Into a Jam

    This orange marmalade is a reminder of Sicily’s ancient Jewish community

    byJoan Nathan
  • Via Maqueda, Palermo, Sicily in 2011.
    Via Maqueda, Palermo, Sicily in 2011.
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    Roman Catholic Church To Finance Synagogue and Heritage Center for Palermo’s Jewish Community

    Five centuries after the expulsion of Jews from Sicily, Jewish life in Palermo is looking up

    byJonathan Zalman
  • A demonstration organized by the “Amici di Israele” (friends of Israel) on Oct. 7, 2010, in front of Temple of Hadrian in Rome.(Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)
    A demonstration organized by the “Amici di Israele” (friends of Israel) on Oct. 7, 2010, in front of Temple of Hadrian in Rome.(Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Amid Rising Anti-Semitism in Western Europe, Italian Jews Are Staging a Surprising Revival

    A strong communal response to a terrorist attack in the 1980s seeded a new generation of dynamic leaders

    byMichael Ledeen
  • Rabbi Barbara Aiello with Alessandro Yosef Amato and his mother Angela Yael Amato at Alessandro’s bar mitzvah at the synagogue Ner Tamid del Sud.(Courtesy of the author)
    Rabbi Barbara Aiello with Alessandro Yosef Amato and his mother Angela Yael Amato at Alessandro’s bar mitzvah at the synagogue Ner Tamid del Sud.(Courtesy of the author)
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    Italy’s Only Female Rabbi Digs Up the Country’s Hidden Jewish Roots

    Barbara Aiello has uncovered many Italians’ secret histories. But her methods and theories have won her many detractors.

    byKarina Ioffee
  • Roberto La Galla, dean of the University of Palermo, Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, and others like the Hanukkiah at Steri Palace prison in Palermo, Sicily(Courtesy of Shavei Israel.)
    Roberto La Galla, dean of the University of Palermo, Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, and others like the Hanukkiah at Steri Palace prison in Palermo, Sicily(Courtesy of Shavei Israel.)
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    Crypto-Jews Light Up Spanish Inquisition Prison

    Happy Hanukkah from Palermo, Sicily

    byRachel Silberstein
  • Taormina, Sicily.(Giovy/Flickr)
    Taormina, Sicily.(Giovy/Flickr)
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    Long View

    At a book festival in Sicily, admiring a tranquil lifestyle and remembering a father’s bedtime stories about drunks and prostitutes, based on his time spent Irgun gun-running at Italy’s southern tip

    byEtgar Keret
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