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November 27, 2017 - Kislev 9, 5778

NEWS

Italy Mourns the Loss of Rabbi
and Teacher Giuseppe Laras

By Adam Smulevich

Italy mourns the passing of Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, long-serving chief rabbi in Milan, Leghorn and Ancona and former president of the Italian Rabbinic Assembly. Rav Laras represented a fundamental figure not only for Italian Judaism, but for the entire society. Born in 1935 in Turin, the rabbi was deeply marked by the Shoah. He lost his mother and grandmother, and narrowly escaped deportation himself.
He was a protagonist in the mission of interfaith dialogue. In his last message published after his death, Rav Laras stressed: "It is up to all of us, Christians and Jews, to seize the opportunity to make the Bible the future, different and yet synergic, for our two Communities of Faith, to turn it into a source of life for Western civilization. And it is extremely urgent to give back to the Bible its real voice, which can in no way be reduced to a secular manual for subsistence, goodwill and pacifism of sorts".

EVENTS

Parma Gears Up for Jewish Music Contest

By Daniel Reichel

On December 12, 2017, at the Casa della Musica in Parma, the finalists of the Musical Composition Competition inspired by Jewish Tradition will present their musical works.
The project is promoted by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities together with the Jewish Community of Parma and the Casa della Musica. It aims to support the composition of new songs inspired by Jewish tradition and to further enrich this specific area, which strongly characterizes the various sectors of cultural and religious life.

NEWS

Rome’s Great Synagogue Lit Up to Raise Awareness on Violence against Women

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Great Synagogue of Rome was lit up to raise awareness on violence against women. The orange lighting featured on its front was part of the initiatives for the international day against violence against women.
Between January and September in Italy over 84 women were killed, over 8,000 pressed charges for being stalked, 9,000 for family violence and 3,000 for being raped.

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Miedo

David Bidussa*

El miedo es una cuestión política importante. Hace unos 350 años, Thomas Hobbes ya nos dice que el miedo es la base en la que se funda la política. Por ello, cuando el miedo resurge, es necesario saber que se trata simplemente del efecto de la falta de una política apta para apagarlo. Puede movernos hacia la indignación el nuevo proyecto del partido Forza Nuova “Passeggiate per la sicurezza”, pero tanto la indignación como la estrategia del dedo acusador no solucionarán ningún tipo de problema, si no nos fijamos atentamente en las necesidades, en los miedos y en las emergencias de quien realmente vive el día a día de las ciudades.

*David Bidussa es especialista en historia de las ideas y disciplinas sociales.
Traducción de Anna Pagetti, estudiante de la Escuela Superior para Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Trieste, en prácticas en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas.

Leia mas

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Black Friday's Light

By Daniela Fubini*

In a few days the celebrations for Hanukkah will be in full throttle, and all of a sudden the Black Friday makes totally sense. First it seemed like a flu that we contracted by being too close to our American broad - and richer - family; not on a government level, where they have absolutely no clue how to handle the reality that family you don’t choose. The American Jewry is family, although different, strange at times, and very high maintenance. But anyway, back to Black Friday.
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here, so why should we celebrate it’s nemesis, the orgy of consumerism that drags millions of Americans to every physical and online store? Then I realized how close it comes to Hanukkah and it all made sense. Would have been better to understand this earlier, and scope every available store in half a day, to get all gifts done - until Purim, at least.

*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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ITALICS

A Thanksgiving Pasta Inspired by Roman Jews

By Elin Schoen Brockman

It’s been 32 years since Calvin Trillin’s famous proposal, in the New Yorker, that Spaghetti alla Carbonara replace turkey as our national Thanksgiving dish. After all, Trillin argued, the Indians could have brought it to that first Thanksgiving dinner (their ancestors having learned how to make it from Christopher Columbus).
In the intervening years, the Carbonaristas have not abandoned the cause. Last Thanksgiving, the New York Times published Ian Fisher’s account of attempting to master this seemingly simple Roman dish, which, at its most basic—and therefore, its best—involves a sauce of eggs enhanced with some form of bacon (usually guanciale or pancetta), and, on top of that, Pecorino Romano cheese.

*This article was published in the Tablet on November 27, 2017.

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