Symposium - Italy in the White House: A Conversation on Historical Perspectives
Several of the first American servicemen interred abroad are buried in #Sicily. Our Italy in US team is helping to uncover their extraordinary story in collaboration with The White House Historical Association, The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and the Museo Archeologico Paolo Orsi in Syracuse. This rediscovery emerged during resea...
NIAF Congressional Fellowship
The National Italian American Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the NIAF Congressional Fellowship Program. Beginning in fall 2016, the Foundation will place outstanding Italian American college students and recent graduates in offices of members of the Italian American Congressional Delegation (IACD) to encourage and support the next...
Sons of Italy to Honor Condoleezza Rice, Airline Industry Leader Nicholas Calio, Real Estate Developer Joseph Mattone, Philanthropist Mary Ann Mattone and Labor Leader Paul Rinaldi
Leaders in public service, business, labor and philanthropy will be honored May 26 in Washington, D.C., at the Sons of Italy Foundation's (SIF) National Education & Leadership Awards Gala. The SIF is the philanthropic arm of the Sons of Italy, the nation's largest and oldest organization for people of Italian heritage. Condoleezza Rice...
Antonin Scalia’s spirit lives on in stage revival of ‘The Originalist’
It was an occasion both somber and celebratory. A packed Washington theater audience witnessed the first revival performance of "The Originalist" four months after the death of its legendary and large-hearted "star," Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia. Every seat was filled in the Kogod Cradle on Saturday at Arena Stage for L.A. Theatre Works' in...
Italian festival in Bayonne to benefit lupus awareness foundation
By Nicholas Zeitlinger Italian culture, food and music will be on full display in Bayonne this weekend, and it's all for a good cause. Bayonne's inaugural Italian Festival will benefit lupus awareness with a family friendly event featuring children's events, food vendors and a free concert. The festival will take place on July 16 from 9 a.m....
There's still time to participate in the Jersey City Columbus Day Parade
By Caitlin Mota Jersey City residents will be showing off their Italian Pride this weekend at the city's seventh annual Columbus Day Parade. The parade is slated to kick off at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Dickinson High School and make its way down Newark Avenue and concluding at City Hall. The parade's route is designed to pass through the...
Happy 100th
Local Sons of Italy Lodge celebratates century of community involvement LOCK HAVEN - As they say in Italian ... Salute! You may hear that word a lot today, the biggest day in 100 years at the Lock Haven Sons of Italy Lodge. One-hundred years ago today, The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania chartered the Loggia Giosue Carducci Lodge No. 146. And, lodg...
Announcing the 2013 Feast of the Madonna del Sacro Monte, Clifton, New Jersey
Last year the event was a huge success exceeding all expectations. Next June Pat O‟Boyle is teaming up again with the SOGNA organization with the same enthusiasm determined to repeat last year success and make it even better. The time and the place will be the same as in 2012. It will start with the Mass at 10:30 on Saturday June 1st followed...
Grapevine: West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
By Rosalyn Queen Alonso Another friendly reminder that the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival will be presenting its Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, November 23, 2013. This will be only the second class to ever be inducted into this prestigious group. Among those to be inducted is Merle Moore. You might ask why?...
Italian glass artist will have one-week residency
By Marylynne Pitz / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lino Tagliapietra, an internationally renowned glass artist from Italy, arrives at the Pittsburgh Glass Center on Monday for a one-week residency with his Seattle-based team. Examples of Mr. Tagliapietra's designs are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albe...
Philadelphia: Rome of America
Did you know that a triumphal arch (copy of the Roman triumphal arch of Constantine) was built on Market Street to celebrate the victory in the Revolutionary War? Learn why the writing on that arch truly designed Philadelphia as the Rome of America, when you take this tour, organized by Philadelphia Italian Tours.
Italian American Police Society of NJ Urges Law Enforcement to Be Vigilant
The Italian American Police Society of New Jersey urges all of its members and area law enforcement officers to be extra vigilant in light of yesterday's senseless murder of the two members of the NYPD. All law enforcement personnel, especially in uniform and operating marked police vehicles, should take extra care to be aware of their surroundings...