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December 14, 2015 - Tevet 2, 5776

La menace
By Guido Vitale*

L'antisionisme du XXI siècle constitue une menace aussi grave pour le destin juif que l'antisémitisme du début du siècle dernier. (Shmuel Trigano)

*Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.
 
Donna & Barbra
By Daniela Gross

Hollywood celebrities got involved, along with the American Jewish community, in the plan to renovate Venice’s Jewish ghetto for its 500th anniversary. “Eight million euros are needed, and two have already been received from donations by people more or less well known who, across the ocean, love Venetian heritage. The singer Barbra Streisand promised to rally for it, and her enthusiasm drew in the stylist Donna Karan and other members of the Jewish elite.

As reported on Wednesday, in the daily Corriere della Sera, by Claudio Del Frate, this project was launched by the foundation Venetian Heritage, which has long been involved in saving Venice’s cultural treasures. Many members of the Jewish American communities supported it as did many VIP, who publicly promote this. Diane von Furstenberg has been involved, and the next to be contacted will be Steven Spielberg.

In the meantime, every day the foundation receives tens of emails from American Jews wishing to contribute, after having read a recent article in The New York Times about the beauty of the Venetian ghetto. “For my son’s bar mitzvah, I would like to donate a hundred dollars to your project,” they write. “These messages give us confidence,” commented the director of Venetian Heritage, Toto Bergamo Rossi. “At this pace, the ghetto renovation will begin by the end of 2016.”



 
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NEWS
Italian Rabbis Criticize New Theological Statements
on Christianity 


By Adam Smulevich

The president of the Italian Rabbinical Assembly Giuseppe Momigliano spoke critically of the public statement by 25 Orthodox rabbis, mostly from Modern Orthodox circles, in which they interpret the birth of Christianity as part of a divine plan so that Jews and Christians can work together for the redemption of the world.
"I understand the spirit in which it was written, but theological assertions such as these risk causing damage. It is more useful to focus on areas where collaboration can turn into something concrete," rav Momigliano said in a conversation with Pagine Ebraiche.

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NEWS
A New President for Italian Jewish Students 
By Daniel Reichel

Ariel Nacamulli is the new president of the Union of Young Jews in Italy (UGEI). Nacamulli comes from Rome, but he is currently attending university in Milan. He was appointed by the members of 2016 UGEI Council elected last week in Venice during the twenty-first Congress of the Union of Italian Jewish Students in Italy: Max Cavazzini (Genoa), Sara Bedarida (Livorno), Ariel Nacamulli (Milan), Filippo Tedeschi (Turin), Giorgio Berruto (Turin), Simone Bedarida (Florence ), Giulio Piperno (Rome).

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culture
Jewish Community of Rome Looks at the Jubilee
with Attention and Respect

By Rossella Tercatin

The Jewish Community of Rome looks at the “Jubilee of Mercy”, which was inaugurated by Pope Francis last Tuesday, “with attention and respect.” Detailing it was the Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni, in an op-ed published in the Italian daily Il Messaggero.
“This Jubilee is most certainly not a Jewish event. However the Jewish Community looks at it with attention and respect. The call for mercy is deeply tied in with Biblical and Jewish roots,” rav Di Segni wrote. “Undoubtedly for both faiths mercy cannot do without justice. Mercy and justice are two indissoluble aspects of divine reality and human effort. But focusing on mercy in the times we are living, when religion seems to be associated only with blood and destruction seems to be an appropriate message,” he added.
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FEATUREs -
Designing Fashion Inspired
by Torah and Vogue


By Rachel Silvera

Chaya and Simi are two brilliant and funny girls. Born and bred in Sidney (Australia), they are the daughters of a local rabbi. In a conversation with Pagine Ebraiche, they explained how they wanted to find a compromise between their two Bibles: Torah and Vogue (of course!). This is the reason why they left Sidney for New York and founded The Frock NYC, a modest clothing design studio. The Frock soon became a "fashion must" and also Vogue America wrote about it. But who are Chaya and Simi? And why did they choose to enter inside the fashion system?

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Español

de Benedetto Carucci Viterbi*

Exhibir cadáveres es profanar el Nombre de Dios.:esto es lo que enseñan los Maestros, sirviéndose de una exégesis aparentemente alejada del texto escrito en la Torá. Parece que no hay duda de que los verdugos de hoy sean profanadores del Nombre de Dios y de la dignidad humana. De todas formas, los que siguen publicando en las redes sociales imágenes de cuerpos desgarrados y decapitados también deberían pararse a pensar en sus acciones.
 
*Benedetto Carucci Viterbi es un rabino. Este artículo ha sido traducido en español por Giulia Castelnovo, estudiante de la Scuola superiore traduttori e interpreti di Trieste, que está haciendo su práctica para la revista Pagine Ebraiche.



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Double Life - Holiday season
By Daniela Fubini*

Don't we all love the holidays, with or without fake pine trees with colorful lights and the star up on top. Right now, from end of November all the way through early January is a very interesting time, in Israel, especially when you live a double life. When family and friends are spread in several different continents and usually have vacation in different moments and seasons than in Israel. And so it happens, they book flights and arrange accommodation and tourism, asking questions and making itineraries, and then eventually disembark at Ben Gurion Airport, obviously in the middle of what here is the most normal working day, with deadlines and meetings and conference calls and half of the team sick because hey, it's winter, and surprise, winter is cold in Israel, and you can even get a cold.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.




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