The following article appeared in the October 13, 2008 Inquirer. This school should be commended for their program!
By Rita Giordano-
Inquirer Staff Writer
In Caterina Dawson’s Italian-language class at Glassboro High School, they don’t study the verb to whack.
There are no goodfellas, wiseguys, godfathers or dons. Conspicuously absent, too, is Tony Soprano, New Jersey’s most infamous [...]
Category Archives: Italian Culture
Italian culture class finds amore in N.J. The popular curriculum has gained national attention.
Italian American Museum opens in New York’s Little Italy
The following article appeared in the October 13th edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
By Carlin Romano -Inquirer Book Critic
NEW YORK - When Italian Americans end today’s uptown parade on Fifth Avenue for Columbus Day, Joseph Scelsa hopes they’ll keep marching right down to the corner of Mulberry and Grand in Little Italy.
Little Italy, you see, is [...]
Italians and the American Revolution
The following was found on the National Italian American Foundation website.
From the beginning of U.S. history, Italians have supported American independence.
Three Italian regiments, totaling some 1,500 men, fought for American independence: the Third Piemonte, the 13th Du Perche, and the Royal Italian.
Filippo Mazzei, a Tuscan physician, fought alongside Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry [...]
Sons of Italy Charges Batavia School Play Sterotypes Italian Americans
Washington, DC– November 7, 2006 A play to be performed at the Rotolo Middle School this month stereotypes Italian Americans and is “most inappropriate entertainment” for children, charges the Sons of Italy Commission for Social Justice (CSJ), the anti-defamation arm of the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the oldest and largest Italian American [...]
Italian Americans Charge Free Enterprise Fund Committee with Ethnic Stereotyping
Press Contact: Kylie Cafiero, (202) 547-2900 kcafiero@osia.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 25, 2006 - The Free Enterprise Fund Committee, a lobbying group in Washington, DC, is guilty of stereotyping Italian Americans, charges the Commission for Social Justice (CSJ), the anti-defamation arm of the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the largest Italian American organization [...]
Italian-American Crime Fighters
New Study from Sons of Italy
Washington - August 10, 2005 - The pivotal role that Italian Americans have played since the 19th century in enforcing the law is the subject of a new study from the Commission for Social Justice (CSJ), the anti-defamation arm of the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the oldest [...]
