On Thursday, March 22nd, Rabbi Riccardo Shmuel Di Segni, M.D., Chief Rabbi of Rome since 2001, introduced an audience of about 100 students and community members to the long-standing debate on the Vatican’s policies in the 1930s and 40s when Italy introduced racial laws and Jews were deported to death camps. Dr. Di Segni, a trained physician who serves as the chairman of the radiology department at the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome, vice president of the Orthodox Conference of European Rabbis and the Italian government’s National Council for Bioethics, gave a knowledgeable introduction to the long and complicated relationship between the Church and the Jews.
The event was sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Endowment at Boston University, The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, the Catholic Center, and the Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights department at the School of Public Health.
Source: https://www.bu.edu/jewishstudies/2012/03/16/chief-rabbi-of-rome-visit/