An Italian steakhouse with sizzle
Osteria Posto. For folks unfamiliar with Italian, "osteria" means a restaurant serving wine and simple food. "Posto," meanwhile, means a place to relax. Put the two words together and you have a restaurant where you can unwind while dining. "Simple," however, is not an adjective one should use to to accurately describe the cuisine at the newly open...
Joy Mangano: Italian of the Week
Joy Mangano was born on February 15, 1956, in New York to Italian American parents who owned a school bus and airport shuttle business. As a child, she enjoyed taking apart various products and putting them back together. She enjoyed math and mechanics, and graduated with honors from high school a year early. When she was a teenager, she developed...
New York State Funds $1.5M Triangle Factory Memorial
by JTA New York state is allocating $1.5 million in state funds for a memorial commemorating the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The New York Times reported Monday that the memorial will consist of steel panels on the former Triangle building in New York City. The building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Man...
Local charity event benefits Make-A-Wish
The Italian American Cultural Society of New Jersey, which was founded in October 2014, recently held its first major charity event for Make-A-Wish New Jersey. The event was held at the Samuel and Josephine Plumeri Wishing Place in Monroe Township. More than 180 people attended the event and raised $21,000 which will grant two childre...
Attorney James P. Montana
by Leonard F. Amari This month we highlight the distinguished career of prominent lawyer, litigator and government leader James P. Montana. Montana's father, James Sr., was also a lawyer, highly respected attorney and community leader, truly beloved and well known and a moving force for decades in the successful growth of the 97-year-old J...
Italian Restaurant To Open At The Summit
Later this Spring, Skipolini's Italian, an award-winning, Bay-area restaurant, will be joining The Summit community. Skipolini's will be bringing a 41-year, award-winning, reputation to The Summit, in the building just south of BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. The menu at Skipolini's Italian will feature pizzas, pastas and other classic Italia...
Amazon Brings in Corning CEO to Board, Will Let International Business Chief Take Leave
By Greg Bensinger Amazon.com Inc. appointed a new director to its board and said it is granting a two-year leave to its head of international business. The Seattle retailer said Diego Piacentini, 55 years old, is leaving the company for two years, beginning in August in order to work as the head of the Italian prime minister's digital...
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...
Walker Art Center hires new curators from Milan and New York City
by Mary Abbe Walker Art Center has hired two curators, Adrienne Edwards from New York City and Vincenzo de Bellis from Milan, Italy. Vincenzo De Bellis, who was born 1977 in Putignano, Italy on the Adriatic coast, will be Curator, Visual Arts at the Walker. A co-founder in 2009 of the non-profit Peep-Hole Art Center in Milan, he h...
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...
A day in the life of the swiss guards
The guys in the striped balloon pants you see at the Vatican are part of the Pope's private army. They belong to the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the oldest and smallest active military unit in the world. They serve as personal escorts to the pontiff, and as guards for Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo. But it's not all standing around and looking g...