ABSTRACT
According to an authoritative advice accepted by the Constitutional Court in Sentence no.59 of 1958, a new organisation showing the characteristics of stability, the presence of a certain number of believers, and its own rules, must be considered a religious denomination. ^
The Italian Jewish world can identify itself as belonging to this classification, owing chiefly to many centuries of recognition, and the presence of believers. The constitutional concepts of "social formation" (Article 2) or of "association" (Article 18) seem, on the contrary, restrictive.
