Rome names a street after historic Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff
Toaff served as Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2001. He was instrumental in turning a Jewish community that was still devasted from the Holocaust into a prosperous center of Jewish life.
Inauguration of Elio Toaff Street in Rome in October 2019. (photo credit: COURTESY OF PAGINE EBRAICHE)ByROSSELLA TERCATIN