Ruth Ellen Gruber RSS

is JTA’s senior European correspondent. Based in Rome, she travels and writes extensively on Jewish affairs in Italy, Central and Eastern Europe and other European countries. A former UPI reporter, she has also written for The New York Times and the Encyclopaedia Judaica. She is also the author of several books: Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe and Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today.

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• Italian prosecutor probing Adolf Hitler-labeled wine

  August 9, 2012 10:35am

  A public prosecutor in Italy has opened an inquiry after a vacationing Jewish-American couple complained about wine with a picture of Adolf Hitler on the label for sale in a shop near Verona.

• Shopping center construction damaging historic Lviv synagogue

  August 8, 2012 10:37am

  The Jewish community in Lviv, Ukraine, has warned that construction of a new shopping center could seriously damage a historic synagogue next to the site.

• Italians join Israelis for Olympic minute of silence

  July 30, 2012 1:06pm

  Italian officials joined Israelis at the Olympics in London for a minute of silence to honor the 11 Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

• In Poland and Slovakia, restoring awareness of a forgotten Jewish past

  July 23, 2012 6:33pm

  Projects in Oshpitzin and Bratislava are aiming not just to recall the past but to foster a better understanding of the present.

• Letter from Krakow: When is anti-Semitism not anti-Semitism?

  July 18, 2012 7:01pm

  An altercation at a Krakow cafe prompts the question about responding to allegations of anti-Semitism via social media’s instant responses.

• Netanyahu urges Hungarian leader to act against resurgent anti-Semitism

  July 17, 2012 6:41pm

  At a meeting with Hungarian President Janos Ader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed concern at a “dangerous” resurgence of anti-Semitism in Hungary and called on the Hungarian government to take action.

• Italy to fight anti-Semitism in cyberspace

  July 17, 2012 10:20am

  The Italian government plans to introduce new legislation to beef up measures countering anti-Semitism and hate speech in cyberspace.

• Bosnian politicians consider ending constitutional discrimination of Jews, Roma

  July 16, 2012 10:33am

  Politicians from Bosnia and Herzegovina talked about changing the country’s constitution to end discrimination against Jews and other minorities.

• Righteous Gentiles honored in Warsaw

  July 15, 2012 8:05pm

  Dozens of elderly non-Jewish Poles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust were honored in Warsaw.

• Wiesenthal Center’s most wanted Nazi located in Budapest by tabloid

  July 15, 2012 2:59pm

  A fugitive Nazi war criminal who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths was tracked down in Budapest by a British tabloid newspaper.