Lucca Bans Kebabs. Regional councillor denounces “gastronomic racism”
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Goodbye to North African couscous, Indian chicken curries and papaya salads from Togo. It’s Italian food only from now on. Or rather, strictly Luccan fare, such as spelt soup, chestnut flour cake, torta co’ becchi cake and other Tuscan delights. (Read the article by Francesco Alberti)
Rome on Fast Track for Formula One
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Flammini's meetings with Ecclestone. Mayor Alemanno says project is "interesting". (Read the article)
Italy remembers the Holocaust. Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, President Napolitano says
ANSA. Rome, January 27 - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by stressing the ''clear and explicit'' distinction between criticising Israel and denying the Jewish state's right to exist. (Read the article)
Israeli Jews welcome Pope's words. Risk of break in ties subsiding
ANSA. Gerusalem, January 28 - Pope Benedict XVI's strong stand against denying the Holocaust was welcomed Wednesday by the highest Jewish authority in Israeli, which had threatened to sever ties indefinitely with the Vatican. (Read the article)
Il giorno della Memoria a New York: La storia nelle strade
Il Console Generale di New York apre lo speciale di i-Italy dedicato al Giorno della Memoria. "L'Italia non dimentica! Ecco il senso della lettura dei nomi delle vittime italiane dell’Olocausto, effettuata sul marciapiede davanti al Consolato Generale..."
Pope Shoah record 'unequivocal'
ANSA. Vatican Radio on Tuesday defended Pope Benedict XVI's ''unequivocal'' record on the Shoah amid a row over a bishop who was rehabilitated despite being a Holocaust denier. (Read the article from ANSA)
A Skeptic's Inauguration Diary
When my Italian mother all but dragged me to Washington on the day of the Inauguration, it helped me believe again
For a Peaceful Union of Minorities
The former President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities: "We need to build a world where all the national, linguistic, and religious groups become aware that there all are, in fact, minorities..."
Taking History to the Street
The Consul General of Itlay in New York opens i-italy's special issue dedicated to Remembrance day: "Italy does not forget. We still feel shame that this occurred in our country."
Nedo, Andrea e Talia. Memoria al futuro.
Incontro con il giornalista Andrea Fiano, membro del Consiglio Direttivo del Centro Primo Levi di New York. Andrea è figlio di Nedo, sopravvissuto ad Auschwitz, e padre di Talia, teenager Italo-Americana
Memoria al Futuro
A special issue of i-Italy dedicated to Remembrance Day. For an uncompromising critique of racism, past and present - in Italy, in America, and everywhere in the World.
"Lo stato di eccezione" by Germano Maccioni
Trailer of the film "Lo Stato di eccezione. Processo per Monte Sole 62 anni dopo". Germano Maccioni followed and recorded the 2007 court proceedings against several Nazi officers and soldiers who, in 1944, murdered hundreds of Italians residing in Marzabotto and in the hills of Monte Sole
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