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January 2, 2017 - Tevet 4, 5777
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Italian Prime Minister to Pagine Ebraiche: "Middle East at the Center of Our Agenda"

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By Adam Smulevich
 
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni spoke about the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the traditional press conference at the end of the year.
“If we allow Islamic terrorism to appropriate the Palestinian cause, we run a serious danger. We cannot afford this danger. It is a topic that we want to bring back to the agenda," he said, answering to Pagine Ebraiche. 
"There is a road identified by the international community: With the talks at Camp David, it was a millimeter from the end. The road is the one of the Two State Solution. It's not easy, but it remains the only one to follow," Gentiloni also stressed.

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A 'Garden of Questions' in the Museum
of Italian Judaism and the Shoah

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff
 
The “Garden of Questions” of the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara will be inaugurated in the spring.
The Garden will feature species of plants that are used during the Havdalah, the ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat and the beginning of the week, such as myrtle, laurel, thyme, lavender, as well as the Seven biblical species (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates) and many more.
“With this project, unique in Italy, we would like to invite the public to approach Jewish culture also through its scents and flavors. The Garden will show the species mentioned in the Bible, and the elements of Jewish nutrition,” explained MEIS director Simonetta Della Seta.

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"Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Is at Good-Point"

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The interfaith dialogue between Jews and the Catholic Church is “at a very good point”. Explaining it to Pagine Ebraiche is Father Norbert Hofmann, secretary of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
“Small and big initiatives remind us of that. If we discuss our specific experience, we can start with 2002. In June, we undertook the challenge of starting this interfaith group, with a first secret meeting promoted by John Paul II. After a few months of preparations, the work officially began the following February. Our group is small and select, the ideal set for promoting the circulation of ideas and thoughts, with a constant outlook on currents affairs: the sanctity of life, Jewish and Christian ethics and the challenges presented to religious leaders,” Hofmann told Pagine Ebraiche in an interview following the latest meeting of the Commission with the representatives of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

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bECHOL LASHON - Deutsch

Sizilianisches Tauchbad

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von Jim Tobias*

In dem heutigen Syrakus (...) ist jetzt nichts Merkwürdiges mehr, als die alten Minerventempel«, notierte der Schriftsteller Johann Gottfried Seume lapidar, als er nach einer viermonatigen Wanderung am 1. April 1802 in der sizilianischen Stadt ankam. »Syrakus kommt immer mehr und mehr in Verfall«, ergänzte er kritisch, »die Regierung scheint sich durchaus um nichts zu bekümmern.«

*Judische Allgemeine, 15.12.2016.

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Torture

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By David Bidussa*

Torture has gone again unpunished, if not in law, at least in fact. We can start with Aleppo. Although it was already clear with Srebrenica in 1995: our time is the time of perpetrators. The “never again”, if it ever existed, was just a truce.





*David Bidussa is an historian.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Germany's Other Genocide


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By Guido Vitale

In this faraway corner of southern Africa, scores of German soldiers lie in a military cemetery, their names, dates and details engraved on separate polished tombstones. Easily missed is a single small plaque on the cemetery wall that gives a nod in German to the African "warriors" who died in the fighting as well. Nameless, they are among the tens of thousands of Africans killed in what historians have long considered — and what the German government is now close to recognizing — as the 20th century's first genocide. A century after losing its colonial possessions in Africa, Germany and its former colony, Namibia, are now engaged in intense negotiations to put an end to one of the ugliest chapters of Europe's past in Africa. (The New York Times 31-12-2016).




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Menorah Exhibit Brightens Prospects for Tiny Italian Jewish Community

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By Rossella Tercatin*

In the early 1990s, a member of the tiny Jewish community of Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, Italy, pondered what could be done to ensure the community’s future.
“Currently there are two Jewish families who reside in our town, plus a few dozen people who identify as members of the community despite living somewhere else; 20 years ago the situation was not much better,” says designer Elio Carmi.
In the context of such unpromising demographics, plus “an economic recession that is certainly not inviting for the young,” he asked himself how the community could “build a vision for the future,” Carmi says in a phone conversation with The Times of Israel.


*The article was published in The Times of Israel on December 28, 2016.

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