Screening of documentary, "Oro Macht Frei".a 70 minute film about the Roman Jews and the period of anti-Jewish perscution in Italy from Mussolini's Racial Laws through the Nazi occupation of Rome.
January 25th, 2:30pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Park Plaza
Terra del Vento è stato presentato alla presenza del Procuratore Nazionale Antimafia Franco Roberti, del sindaco di Napoli Luigi De Magistris e del teologo Gennaro Matino
Il ricordo di una donna importante per l'Italia. Esempio per le giovani generazioni di un'Italia in difficoltà come allora. E' stata una delle 21 donne eletta all’Assemblea Costituente ed una delle grandi protagoniste della storia italiana, dal 1939 al 1981, quando lascia la presidenza dell’ANFE (Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Emigranti) che aveva fondato nel 1947.
Si è svolto a Pescara, l'annuale Convegno che ANFE e CIF hanno dedicato a due abruzzesi straordinarie, Maria Federici e Filomena Delli Castelli, componenti dell’Assemblea Costituente e poi della Camera dei Deputati
It now appears certain that Giorgio Napolitano will resign as of Jan. 14, at the top of Italy’s current political agenda is election of his successor. Before this happens, let’s consider what the function of an Italian president is – unlike the royals of Britain or Spain, he is far more than a ceremonial figurehead – and then take a backward look at the presidents of the past.
Ricordando Pino Daniele (Mar 19, 1955 · Jan 04, 2015)
Memorie indelebili a New York con l'icona della musica italana/napoletana.
Ci siamo salutati immaginando un ritorno. Non è stato così, ma questa città lo ama insieme a me. E per sempre.
Remembering Pino Daniele (Mar 19, 1955 · Jan 04, 2015)
Indelible memories in New York with the Neapoletan/Italian pop icon.
We said goodbye envisaging a return to New York. It's not going to happen, but this city loves him, together with me. And will love him forever.
A singular event: in January at 30 West 12th street, S.F. VANNI, the first Italian bookstore in America, in business from 1884 to 2004, will reopen as a pop-up bookstore and cultural space, under the auspices of Centro Primo Levi
Today’s news of frayed relations between police and minority communities in Ferguson, Mo., New York and elsewhere should ring a familiar bell to Italian Americans. Newspapers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offered many accounts of tension and distrust between the police and Italian immigrants—the minority community of the day. And while it’s true enough that Italian Americans have deep roots in the NYPD, therein lies another story: how they achieved acceptance after years of tense relations with police.
Una notte incantata, quella della Befana, ma non per questo non seriamente adulta, spazio controcorrente al tempo che viviamo, un tempo che ci costringe a concretezza arida, a fare a meno dei sogni, quasi a sentirci in colpa se ancora ne sentiamo il bisogno. Abbiamo assassinato i sogni e con loro la gentilezza, materia prima per sognatori.
More than 2000 years ago the Three Wise Men visited Jesus after his birth and gave him three symbolic gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. From that time on, the Befana comes every year, on January 6, to fill Italian kids’ stockings with all sorts of goodies!
In Palermo, a major boulevard is named “Via Vittorio Emanuele”; there is the “Teatro Garibaldi” and “Via Garibaldi”. Similarly, in Naples’ center is “Garibaldi Plaza” and “Corso Victor Emmanuel”. In New York’s Staten Island there is a “Garibaldi Ave” and a “Garibaldi Museum”; and in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park there’s a statue of Garibaldi.