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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• Rome’s Jews slam far-right rally

  November 13, 2012 11:46am

  The Rome Jewish community slammed a neo-fascist rally in the city’s downtown and protested plans for a similar demonstration.

• Criminalize anti-Semitic websites, Rome provincial council says in motion

  October 30, 2012 10:44am

  Rome’s provincial council is calling for websites that promote racism and anti-Semitism to be blocked and such online hatred criminalized.

• Crowds mark anniversary of Mussolini’s rise to power

  October 29, 2012 10:19am

  Hundreds converged on the Italian town of Benito Mussolini’s birth to mark the 90th anniversary of the “march on Rome” that brought the fascist dictator to power.

• Israeli films honored at International Festival of Cinema and Religion

  October 25, 2012 12:53pm

  Four Israeli films were honored at the 15th annual Religion Today International Festival of Cinema and Religion.

• Italian PM leads delegation for summit in Israel

  October 25, 2012 12:41pm

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and a high-level delegation of government ministers and businesspeople flew to Israel for a bilateral summit with Israeli leaders.

• Jewish doctor in Lviv killed by assailant identified as Arab

  October 21, 2012 6:38pm

  A Jewish doctor in Lviv, Ukraine, was beaten to death by an assailant identified by some local news sources as a 26-year-old Arab.

• Medieval Jewish banquet in small Italian town resurrects forgotten menus

  October 17, 2012 8:10pm

  A Jewish banquet in a small town in Umbria provided insight into medieval Jewish food — with talk of religious observances, economic life and sex.

• Italy’s prime minister vows to fight anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial

  October 17, 2012 10:08am

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti promised his country’s Jews that he would stand beside them in the fight against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

• Polish Jewish editor wins prize for novel about Holocaust memory

  October 11, 2012 1:32pm

  The editor of a Polish Jewish monthly was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature for a novel that deals with Holocaust memory.

• Italian president joins Rome’s Jews in marking ’82 attack

  October 10, 2012 3:51pm

  Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano participated in a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of a terror attack on Rome’s main synagogue that killed a toddler.