Are you racists? I mean: are we Jews racists?

According to the BBC, that may well be the case.

On Chanukah, a group of Jewish teens have been attacked by an antisemitic mob in Oxford Street, London. …

What’s in a name, Judah.

Chanukah is coming! But what Chanukah is about?

Well, to properly understand Chanukah, it’s helpful to properly understand this week’s Torah portion.

And to properly understand this week’s Torah portion, it is helpful to focus on an apparent digression.

To begin with, this week’s Torah…

Ho pensato che si potrebbe fare una antologia dei migliori giochi di parole di Franco Levi, ma come si fa a scegliere. “Ho un testicolo, un piccolo testo”. “Il reverendo Mooni Ovadia”. “Kofi Onan”…

Lampi di genio che ricorderemo tra venti, trenta anni quando sarà affievolito, o forse scomparso, il…

A few days ago I received a really interesting question. I have been asked which blessing a Jew has to say when seeing a garbage truck.

The question may sound theoretical. But only if you have been away over the last two weeks, yet probably the smell of it has…

I have a soft spot for Baruch Spinoza, the XVIIth century Dutch philosopher.

As we all know, Spinoza was Jewish. …

Adon Olam, Lord of the universe, here we are: Your people, the Jews.

Like every year, we congregate, some of us virtually, some other in synagogues, real places. Like every year, we grab a prayer book; we try to remember the prayer. Like every year, we recognise the melodies; and…

Young David had just turned 18 when he had a big fight with his father, one of these fights following which the son leaves home for good. David jumped on a train and went away. He did not have a destination in mind. He wandered around the United States, moving…

September 11, 2001, was a beautiful sunny day in Milan. Like every morning, I was in the library of my university, busy with my PhD dissertation.

I’m not sure how I realised that people were leaving the reading room.

Internet wasn’t a big thing in Italy back then. Still, there…