It’s always Chanukah in this picturesque Italian town
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTADec 07, 2017
CHANUKAH 5778 SECTION E PAGE 6 CASALE MONFERRATO, Italy — It’s always Chanukah in this picturesque town in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Jews have lived in...
Shylock back in Venice
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAAug 04, 2016
VENICE — Last week, an international, multilingual cast performed Shakespeare’s controversial play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in the secluded main plaza of the...
Money, memory meet at Auschwitz
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTASep 24, 2015
CRACOW Pawel Sawicki gets to his desk every morning by 7, but he works no regular office job. Sawicki is an information officer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State...
Warsaw’s POLIN museum celebrates and mourns Polish Jewish life
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAOct 30, 2014
WARSAW In a Europe wracked by fears of rising anti-Semitism, and in a country whose Jews were all but annihilated in the Holocaust, a dazzling new museum of life...
Two popes canonized
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAMay 01, 2014
ROME Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints of the Roman Catholic church on April 27, the day that is also the eve of Yom Hashoah. […]
Yael: fictional Israeli undercover agent at UN
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAJun 20, 2013
BUDAPEST Theres a new Jewish heroine on the block, a tough but tender Israeli who does undercover work for the UN and stars in a new series of thrillers […]
Warsaw marks ghetto uprising
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAApr 25, 2013
WARSAW In Warsaw, sirens wailed and church bells rang to mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, a valiant but failed revolt by Jewish fighters...
Warsaw’s Jewish history museum is dedicated
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAApr 18, 2013
WARSAW Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this citys Museum of the History of...
Jews sing Francis’ praises
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAMar 21, 2013
ROME — When the white smoke rose last week at the Vatican, signaling to the world that the College of Cardinals had chosen a new pope, Catholics weren’t the...
Benedict’s papacy: a period of close Jewish relations with occasional bumps
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAFeb 14, 2013
ROME Pope Benedict XVIs eight-year reign as head of the worlds one billion Catholics sometimes was a bumpy one for the Vaticans relations with Israel and the...
