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January 9, 2017 - Tevet 11, 5777

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UCEI and IsrAID Together to Help
Earthquake Victims

By Daniel Reichel

The Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and the Israeli NGO IsrAID offered their contribution to the people who remain homeless after the earthquakes in central Italy last summer.
Electric blankets, jackets for adults and children and shoes were delivered as a sign of solidarity from Italian Jewry and Israel. Even stoves were included.
IsrAID has been involved in the emergency crisis in the area since the very beginning.

news

After Pagine Ebraiche’s Allegations,
Paolo Di Canio Repudiates Fascism

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Former soccer player Paolo Di Canio repudiated his former support for Fascism. In an interview with the major Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, Di Canio called his tattoos featuring the word “dux” (referring to the Fascist Duce Benito Mussolini)“mistakes”. He also stated that the Fascist salutes he made several times during soccer matches were mistakes as well.
Di Canio’s statements come a few months after he was suspended by the Sky Sport Channel, where he anchored a show focused on the English Premier League, after Pagine Ebraiche denounced the Fascist tattoo visible on his arm.
The player had then addressed an apology to the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni.

culture

Israeli Artist’s Exhibit at Museum
for Contemporary Art of Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The MACRO, Museum for Contemporary Art of Rome, will feature an exhibit by the Israeli artist and photographer Rafael Y. Herman. “The Night Illuminates the Night” (January 25 - March 26) was curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Giorgia Calò, who sits on the board of the Jewish Community of Rome.
The exhibit features works created between 2010 and 2016. At the center of the pieces is a dialogue between Herman’s art and the masters of Western tradition who have depicted the land of Israel across the centuries.

BECHOL LASHON - Español "El precio de ser judío" por Cote Villar* "El judaísmo está tolerado en España, pero nada más. No, no me da miedo decirlo a los cuatro vientos, incluso pensé que debía hacerlo. Aunque no sea practicante, de alguna manera le debía este libro a la sociedad". Luis Bassat, uno de los publicistas más reputados de España, no le debe su apellido a ningún antepasado catalán, aunque la musicalidad sea ciertamente catalana, sino a sus antepasados griegos, búlgaros y turcos. Se jacta de que su madre fue la primera judía que nació en Barcelona desde la expulsión de los judíos en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos. Y cuenta mil y una anécdotas de lo que nacer bajo esa fe ha implicado en su vida: desde partidas de bautismo falsificadas a un intento de secuestro a su entonces novia días antes de la boda. *El Mundo 7.1.2017. Leía mas	pilpul - double life Meir & Zina By Daniela Fubini* The night they took down Dizengoff Square, I was there. Or at least I tried to be there. Turns out, it will take over a week, they did not make a nice, bold, resonating “boom”, and on top of everything else all the bars and stores around the round square will be open throughout the whole affair, and this honestly takes away a lot of the magic. But on the most windy, if not coldest night of the Israeli winter at sea level, at 16 C feeling like just above zero, I did the reporter thing to do, and went to look with my own eyes at the police blocking the main street of Tel Aviv, named after the beloved mayor Meir Dizengoff, and some yellow humongous trucks being positioned in the underpass, like very big Tel Aviv cats looking for some warmth in the chilly night. Some lights were switched on. That was about it. *Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York. Read more

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Zeitzeugen By Guido Vitale Was der Abschied von den Zeitgenossen der NS-Zeit für uns Nachgeborene bedeute, werde ich immer wieder gefragt. Dieser Tage, da die Medien vielfach an die "großen Toten" des zurückliegenden Jahres erinnerten, kam die Frage an den Zeithistoriker noch häufiger als sonst. Tatsächlich sind 2016 zahlreiche Menschen gegangen, deren Lebensweg und deren Lebensleistung viele von uns bewundert haben - und denen wir nicht selten mit der Illusion begegneten, sie seien einfach auf immer da. (Norbert Frei - Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena - Süddeutsche Zeitung 7 Januar 2017) Read more	italics Giorgio Perlasca: The ‘Italian Wallenberg’ By Menucha Chana Levin* While not as famous as some other Holocaust heroes, Giorgio Perlasca saved more Jews than the 1,200 saved by the famous Oskar Schindler. Like Raoul Wallenberg, Perlasca boldly rescued Hungarian Jews from under the noses of the Nazis. Yet, while Schindler and Wallenberg are well-known names from this terrible era, heroic Giorgio Perlasca still remains virtually unheard of. *The article was published in The Jewish Week on January 2, 2017. Read more

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