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Cure for anti-Semitism in Italy? Two Mormons and a rabbi in Florence

By Mark Paredes
Published on November 19, 2011


Back to Back Jersey Shore Tests My Love Affair With Snooki

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 30, 2011


Jersey Shore: The Great Wall of Florence

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 28, 2011


A Short Escape to Prewar Italy

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 5, 2003

What better place to visit as civilization teetered at the brink than the repository of much of civilization's bounty?

Beyond the Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 4, 1999

The leaders of the Jewish community worry about the high intermarriage rate, whether the children of such marriages are to be accepted as Jews, and about the separation of church and state.


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