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• Treaty between Vatican, state of Palestine goes into effect

  January 3, 2016 9:21am

  The two entities signed the pact this summer; the Vatican recognized a state of Palestine nearly three years ago.

• Rome prosecutors investigating list of Italian Jews posted on extremist website

  December 23, 2015 3:54pm

  Six years ago, a virtually identical list as the one on the Italian section of Radio Islam was posted on the white supremacist website Stormfront.

• Andreja Preger, noted concert pianist, anti-Nazi partisan, dies at 104

  December 20, 2015 12:31pm

  Preger taught piano at music academies, performed widely and founded the Belgrade Trio, which performed concerts all over Europe as well as in the United States and the Soviet Union.

• Vatican: Catholic Church must not try to convert Jews

  December 10, 2015 11:07am

  A new Vatican document said the Church must work with Jews and Jewish institutions to further dialogue and mutually understand and fight anti-Semitism.

• Jewish souvenir vendors wear yellow Stars of David in Rome protest

  December 3, 2015 4:52pm

  A spokesman for the vendors said they used the Holocaust imagery “because the latest measures taken by the city seem to be aimed at Jews.”

• Top officials at Rome’s Israelite Hospital arrested in fraud probe

  October 23, 2015 4:52pm

  Italian police arrested senior officials and medical personnel at Rome’s Israelite Hospital for allegedly defrauding the country’s national health service.

• Italian synagogue damaged in severe storm

  October 4, 2015 2:23pm

  Some of the windows were shattered and pictures showed glass littering the interior of the sanctuary in Tuscany.

• Auschwitz ‘showers’ highlight challenge of balancing tourism and memory

  September 8, 2015 6:07pm

  By using mist showers for the benefit of overheated tourists, the former concentration camp reignited debate about its duties to the past and those it now educates.

• Holocaust denier David Irving leading tour of WWII sites

  September 3, 2015 9:58am

  Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria, launched what he calls “Real History” tours in 2010.

• Marking numbers on refugees’ arms recalls Holocaust, Italian Jewish leaders say

  September 3, 2015 8:29am

  Czech police used felt-tipped pens to mark the hands and arms of refugees, mainly from Syria, taken off a train near the border crossing with Austria.