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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Italian soccer players honor Jewish soccer coach killed in Shoah

JTA REPORTPublished January 16, 2013

Italian soccer players expressed opposition to racism this week by honoring a Jewish soccer coach who was killed in the Holocaust. At an Italian Cup quarter finals match in Milan Wednesday, team members of the Milan Inter team and Bologna donned T-shirts...

Man plotting attack on Milan synagogue arrested

JTAPublished March 15, 2012

ROME – Police in northern Italy have arrested a young North African man suspected of planning terrorist attacks on the Milan synagogue and other targets. The 20-year-old man, who has lived in Italy since childhood, was arrested early Thursday in the...

Demonstrators protest Israeli stand at Milan tourist fair

JTAPublished February 20, 2012

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged a protest in front of the Israeli stand at an annual international tourist fair in Milan. Video showed about 10 demonstrators dressed in keffiyas and holding the Palestinian flag passing out flyers and chanting anti-Israel...

Judge orders Nazi-looted painting returned to Jewish heirs

JTAPublished February 7, 2012

A U.S. federal judge has ordered a painting seized from a Florida museum where it was on loan returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owner. The 16th Century painting "Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue" by Girolamo de' Romani was ordered...

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