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    Elio Toaff (30 April 1915 – 19 April 2015) was the Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002. He served as a rabbi in Venice from 1947, and in 1951 became...
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  • Church. Elio Shazivari (born 1985), Albanian footballer Elio Steiner (1904–1965), Italian actor Elio Toaff (1915–2015), Italian Orthodox Rabbi Elio Veltri...
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  • ritual murder which was the central claim of blood libel. Ariel Toaff is the son of Elio Toaff, late former Chief Rabbi of Rome. Among his works are The Jews...
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    Israel-Diaspora Relations. Della Pergola is married to Miriam Toaff - daughter of Rome's chief rabbi Elio Toaff - and has four children. Della Pergola is a specialist...
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    Commemorate the Shoah at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II, Rav Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of Rome, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of the Italian...
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    articles, among which are a book he co-wrote with Italian Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff, a former religious leader in Rome, called How to Be a Jew and Other Works...
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    the early history of the Roman Catholic Church. He prayed with Rabbi Elio Toaff, the then Chief Rabbi of Rome. In 2010 Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni hosted...
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    US conductor Gilbert Levine, was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and survivors of the Holocaust...
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    in Vatican City, along with Pope John Paul II, and Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff. In recent times, Scalfaro was the chairman of the committee that advocated...
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    culturally and religiously." (it) Camminare insieme (with Alain Elkann et Elio Toaff), Milan, Bompiani, 2015. Peacemaking : An Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli...
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  • interviews with witnesses and survivors, including the chief rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, it told the history of Italian Jews after the promulgation of the Italian...
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  • Popes Clement IX, Clement XII, Leo X, Paul III, Urban VIII, Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff, and Minister Angus Morrison. In sciences, notable alumni include Astrophysicists...
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    traumatic memories of his experiences. According to the chief rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, Levi telephoned him for the first time ten minutes before the incident...
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  • Messas (1994–2011) Michel Gugenheim (2012– ) Israel Zolli (1940–1945) Elio Toaff (1951–2002) Riccardo Di Segni (2002–present[update]) Josiah Pardo (1648–1669)...
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    the time in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (to the disappointment of Elio Toaff, the Chief Rabbi of Rome). Most significant of all was the reporting in...
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    his death in 1958, among many Jewish tributes, the Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, said: "Jews will always remember what the Catholic Church did for them...
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    This concert was attended by Pope John Paul II, Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, and President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and was broadcast throughout...
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  • – Donald Mills, lead tenor of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999) April 30 – Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (d. 2015) May 1 – Archie Williams, American athlete (d...
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  • of the Krakow Philharmonic, in December 1987. Pope John Paul II, Rav Elio Toaff, the Chief Rabbi of Italy, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of Italy...
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  • escape safely. Alitalia's efforts were assisted by Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff and the Government of Italy. According to sources, at least 18 Jews were...
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    Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti Giuseppe Maria Terreni (1739–1811), painter Rabbi Elio Toaff (1915–2015), Chief rabbi of Rome Ilaria Tocchini Angiolo Tommasi (1858–1923)...
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  • (1561–1619), rabbi Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (1475–1550), rabbi, philosopher Elio Toaff (1915–2015), rabbi and former Chief of Italian Jews Community Isaiah di...
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  • Marzio since 2001 April 17 – Renato Altissimo, 74, politician April 19 – Elio Toaff, 99, rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome (1951–2002) May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, 68,...
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  • No. 2 "Resurrection. The event, which was attended by the Pontiff, Rav Elio Toaff, Imam Abdulawahab Hussein Gomaa, and 7,000 invited guests, was telecast...
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    a single state, leading to the creation of Yugoslavia in 1918. Born: Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002 (d. 2015); Bruce...
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  • 1932, he married Pia Toaff, sister of the later Chief Rabbi of Rome and Venice Elio Toaff, and daughter of Alfredo Sabato Toaff the Chief Rabbi of Livorno...
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  • 85, American record label founder (ESP-Disk), colon and spine cancer. Elio Toaff, 99, Italian rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome (1951–2002). Betty Willis, 91...
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  • Affairs Adriano Sofri, writer Tiziano Terzani, journalist and writer Elio Toaff, former Chief Rabbi of Rome Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, 19th century surgeon...
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  • Emanuele Pacifici, Non ti voltare: autobiografia di un ebreo,: prefazione di Elio Toaff (Firenze : Giuntina, 1993). Giorgio Nissim, Memorie di un ebreo toscano...
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    Jewish Museum of Venice was founded in 1953 by Cesare Vivante and rabbis Elio Toaff and Bruno Polacco. It was established at the request of Giovannina Reinisch...
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