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April 3, 2017- Nissan 7, 5777
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A Florentine Politician among the Righteous

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By Adam Smulevich

Renato Fantoni, an important representative of the institutions of the city of Florence before and after World War Two, was officially designated a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
A crucial factor in the decision of the recognition were the stories rediscovered and written about in a recent edition of the monthly newspaper Pagine Ebraiche. During the anti-Jewish persecutions Fantoni hid his friend Eugenio Artom with his wife Giuliana, and butler Amedeo.

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CULTURE

An Exhibit of Questions at the MEIS

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A new exhibition at the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara will be inaugurated on April 5.
Just a few months before the opening of the building that will host the first part of the permanent exhibition, visitors will be able to enjoy the exhibition devoted to “Space for Questions”.
“What does Judaism mean to you?” “How do we celebrate the holidays?” “Where do we meet?” “What do we eat?” are the four crucial questions on which the itinerary is based.
“Sometimes the answer will be straightforward, sometimes it will be another question. This is the exact embodiment of the Jewish approach to knowledge,” commented MEIS director Simonetta Della Seta at the press conference presenting the initiative.

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NEWS

Irua Brings Young Italian Jews Together

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff
 
Over 150 young Jews from all over Italy have participated in the great conference Irua (‘event’ in Hebrew), organized by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities in Tuscany last weekend.
“The atmosphere was great, the participation high, especially from the small Jewish Communities. There has been a lot of exchanges among the participants and as such the sessions were on a very high level,” commented rabbi Roberto Della Rocca, who is the director of the Education and Culture Area at UCEI. He introduced the young people to UCEI member of the board Livia Ottolenghi and the president of the Jewish Community of Florence Dario Bedarida.

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BECHOL LASHON - Deutsch

Kein Tod in Venedig 

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von Andrea M. Jarach*

Venedig gehört immer weniger den Venezianern. Jedes Jahr wird die Stadt von rund 22 Millionen Touristen besucht und wandelt sich immer mehr zu einem großen Freiluftmuseum und Vergnügungspark. Ein normales Leben ist für viele Einwohner kaum mehr möglich, seit Langem nehmen Tausende Venezianer Reißaus. Nach offiziellen Angaben wohnten 2016 nur noch etwa 55.000 Menschen in der Innenstadt, 1951 waren es noch 174.000.
Die Stadtverwaltung versucht, mit Krediten und Vergünstigungen neue Bewohner anzuwerben – doch nur mit mäßigem Erfolg. Vor allem illegale Beherbergungsstrukturen und ein wilder Mietmarkt breiten sich aus.
für eine Freundschaft?



*Judische Allgemeine, 30.03.2017



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Wheat

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By Daniela Fubini*

I found myself recently in a field of wheat, during a quiet walk over the weekend. The wheat field was already partially harvested, and on the ground here and there I could see and pick up broken ears of wheat. Funny thing, I only saw them on the way back from the walk, as if they had been thrown to the ground while I was walking uphill. But no, they were there before and when I eventually saw them there where hundreds, maybe thousands.
And then it hit me: ok, this is the work of a machine, not of humans on feet, but even when the harvest was made by humans on feet they surely left quite a big amount of leftovers after they finished chopping the wheat and gathering it in bags. So the whole story with Ruth picking the leftover wheat or barley after the men of Boaz takes a completely different proportion.

*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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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

'Nothing Like South Africa'

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By Guido Vitale

"I remain committed to both Israel and South Africa, and I straddle both societies. I am acutely aware of Israel’s problems and faults, but it is nothing like South Africa before 1994. Those who accuse Israel of apartheid — some even say, “worse than apartheid” — have forgotten what actual apartheid was, or are ignorant, or malevolent." (Benjamin Pogrund, The New York Times)









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A Clue Points to Rome’s Medieval Jewish Cemetery

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By Elisabetta Povoledo*

Excavations that unearth some artifact or another are common enough in Rome, but archaeologists monitoring a building restoration were taken aback when they found 38 well-preserved skeletons that they believe were once buried in the long-vanished Campus Iudeorum, or Field of the Jews.
Scholars knew that Jews were buried in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome from 1363 to 1645, when the cemetery was moved to make room for new city walls, but the recovery of the remains was the first tangible sign — at least in recent times — of one section of the burial site near the Tiber River.

*The article was published in The New York Times on March 28, 2017.

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