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January 16, 2017 - Tevet 18, 5777

NEWS

Running for Memory in Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The ambition of the “Run for Mem” race is to promote the “Message of Memory” and the importance of Holocaust Remembrance in the entire society via a new powerful medium. With this goal in mind, the non-competitive race will take place in Rome on Sunday, January 22, 2017. The initiative is organized by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, together with Maratona di Roma and Maccabi Italia and with the support of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The race will start in the old Jewish quarter, in the square that bears the memory of the Nazi-Fascist raid of the Ghetto which took place on October 16, 1943.

NEWS

"In Paris, Italy Should Lead the Way
in Affirming Israel’s Unambiguous Right
to Exist in Peace and Security"

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The president of the Union of the Italian Jewish Community (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni, sent a message to the Italian government on the eve of the Paris Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Di Segni noted that “in such a crowded contest” with over 70 delegations, the main protagonists, Israel and the Palestinians, would not be attending. “It is necessary to reflect on their absence,” she added.
“National states and international organizations will never be able to take the place of the parties to the cause in defining the path to the needed coexistence, the desired peace and the establishment of a Middle East of growth and development. However, they can carry out an inescapable task: establishing the basic principles for the parties to have a dialogue. The hope is that Italy, considering its true friendship with Israel, solidly rooted in the historic, cultural and political relationships between the countries, will express a clear position, supporting a dialogue based on the unambiguous right of Israel to exist in peace and security,” she pointed out.

MEDIA

The Golem, from Myth to Modern Icon

The January issue of Pagine Ebraiche features a special section about the figure of the Golem, edited by journalist Ada Treves. The following is the introduction to the special section.

By Ada Treves

So rooted in collective phantasy as to be virtually omnipresent, the Golem has a role in all media, from film to sculpture, from comics to video games. According to the most widespread legend it is a giant clay model of a human figure with a vague shape. Created by the Maharal of Prague, rav Yehuda Löw ben Betsalel, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of his time, it is made with mud coming from the banks of the Vltava. The story is almost archetypal: the Maharal decides to create the Golem with a specific purpose because Jews in Prague are in danger, accused of ritual murder. Thanks to the Golem the plot is foiled, but the rabbi loses control on his creature who turns against its creator and ends up pouring that same Jewish blood that it was supposed to protect. It is fortuitously "turned off" and its remains are still hidden in an unattainable attic of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague.

NEWS

New Stolpernstein across Italy

By Daniel Reichel

Dozens of Stolpernstein, the “stumbling stones”, will be laid in different Italian cities during this month, in Rome, Milan, Venice, Turin. From North to South, the stones designed by German artist Gunter Demnig, will commemorate the victims of the Nazis and the Italian fascist regime.
Each stone bears the name, birth year, and fate of an individual victim, including the dates of deportation and death, if known. Twenty-four of these new Stolperstein will be laid in the streets of Rome.
The total number of cobblestone-sized memorials in the Italian capital city will reach 260: “a sign of the success of this idea to give back the dignity and a place of memory to people that often do not even have a grave," explains architect Adachiara Zevi, the person responsible for the Stolpernstein in Italy.

bechol lashon - Français

Les Juifs de Milan s’opposent à une manifestation de l‘extrême-droites

Des leaders juifs italiens ont mis en garde contre un rassemblement néo-fasciste organisé samedi à Milan.
Dans une déclaration conjointe, la présidente de l’organisation cadre de l’Union des Communautés juives italiennes, Noemi Di Segni, rejointe par les dirigeants de la communauté juive de Milan ont qualifié le rassemblement organisé par le mouvement d’extrême-droite Nuova d’”initiative dangereuse promue par un mouvement qui défie ouvertement les valeurs de notre démocratie”.

Times of Israel Français, 15.1.2017.

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Impoverished
Epistemology
and Fatherhood:
Yaakov and Joseph

By Yaakov Mascetti*

As the father of two adolescents, I find myself thinking a lot about the education, influence, freedom of and control over another human being who is not me. Parenting is inherently complex, to say the least, because it entails, by definition, the human reproduction of the self, the multiplication of two adults into a ramified set of future possibilities. From a religious perspective, when a man and a woman join in the effort to bring a child to this world, they cooperate with God in the creation of a new human being – and that is essentially the main problem, because human beings were created, as the narrative goes, in God's image and after his likeness. Pro-creation is, thus, the most delicate act a human being engages in throughout his life – the formation of an image, the multiplication of himself / herself, and the education of the new being to perform independently.

*Yaakov Mascetti holds a Ph.D. and teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Social Trap

By Guido Vitale

"Social media are a trap" (Zygmunt Bauman).

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Palermo to Get First Synagogue in 500 Years

By JTA*

The Roman Catholic Church in Palermo is ceding to Jewish ownership the use of part of a church and monastery complex built atop the ruins of a medieval synagogue.
The move is being viewed as a gesture of reconciliation more than 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Sicily.
The church will finance renovations in the space to create a new synagogue and Jewish heritage center for the several dozen Jews who now live in the city.

*This article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 9, 2017.

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