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February 19, 2018 - Kislev 23, 5778

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A Bonfire for Freedom in Turin

By Ada Treves

The second appointment with the "Bonfire of liberties: a commitment to rights", jointly organized by the Waldensian Church and the Jewish Community of Turin on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the Patent letters with which Carlo Alberto granted civil rights, first to the Waldenses and then to the Jews, is the confirmation of a commitment already taken last year.
The City of Turin has for the second time hosted the meaningful appointment in the central Piazza Castello. The anniversary celebrates many different events and it was remembered by a bonfire which brought together many symbols, and came to shed light and bring warmth in a time when even the gesture of gathering around a fire has a great reach. It marked 170 years from the Albertine Statute, celebrated every year in the Waldensian valley lit up with fires. The tradition is now shared with the Jewish community in the city center. It marked also eighty years from 1938, when racial laws were promulgated by the fascist regime, and seventy years from the promulgation of the Italian Constitution.

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First Ever Israeli Cycling Team to Take Part
in the Giro d’Italia

By Adam Smulevich

In January Israel’s first ever professional cycling team, Israel Cycling Academy, was invited to participate in the Giro d’Italia scheduled to begin in Jerusalem on May 4th. The managers of the team highlighted how this opportunity marks “a historic moment for Israeli sports and a great honor.”
In 2016 and 2017 the Academy in collaboration with our newspaper Pagine Ebraiche organized a cycling event to honor Gino Bartali: athletes and team executives cycled from Florence to Assisi to honour the memory of the Florentine champion who was recognized as a "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 2013 for his efforts in helping Jews during World War II.
Participating in the Giro represents a new challenge and the most important competition this young team has ever entered.

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Union of Italian Young Jews: a New Board

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Unione dei Giovani Ebrei d’Italia (UGEI - Union of Italian Young Jews) has a new board and a pretty full agenda for 2018.
The latest event organized by the UGEI was a conference with Vera Vigevani Jarach, one of the founders of the movement of the Mothers of Plaza De Mayo. And the board is already working on the “spring break” week end to celebrate Lag BaOmer in May.
Members of the new board are Ruben Spizzichino (Rome), Alissa Pavia (Milan), Alessandro Lovisolo (Turin), Simone Israel (Verona), Carlotta Jarach (Milan), Luca Spizzichino (Rome) and Giulio Piperno (Rome).

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Mémoire

David Bidussa*

13 décembre 2011. Dans les rues de Florence, Gianluca Casseri tue Diop Mor et Modou Samb et blesse Moustapha Dieng, Sougou Mor et Mbenghe Cheike. Ce n’est pas vrai qu’à Macerata on ait dépassé une limite. C’est juste qu’on n’a pas de mémoire.

*David Bidussa est un historien. Traduction de Federica Alabiso, étudiante de l’Ecole Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaire auprès du journal de l’Union des Communautés Juives Italiennes.

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Mamá’s sauce

By Daniel Leisawitz*

Matilda Koen-Sarano was born in Milan in 1939. Her parents were Sephardic Jews born in the city of Aydib (Turkey). Koen-Sarano grew up in Milan, speaking Italian outside the house, and Ladino with her family. She attended the Jewish Community school in Milan and studied languages and literature at the Università Bocconi in Milan. She went on to specialize Judeo-Spanish literature and folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has become one of the leading writers and scholars of Ladino language and literature. She now lives in Israel.
The following story, “La salsa de la mamá,” is taken from her first collection of Ladino folktakes, Kuentos del folklore de la famiya djudeo-espanyola (Jeruslaem: Kana Press, 1986). This story was told to her by her uncle Arturo Sarano (b. 1918 at Rhodes).

*Translation from Ladino to English by Daniel Leisawitz.
Daniel Leisawitz is the Director of the Italian Studies Program at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA). The artwork is by Abraham Cresques a 14th-century Jewish Spanish cartographer.

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Rising Racism, Anti-Semitism Taint
Italian Electoral Campaign

By Associated Press*

VERONA - When hundreds of hardcore Verona soccer fans chanted "Adolf Hitler is my friend" and sang of their team's embrace of the swastika, Italian Jewish communities complained, and waited.
Local officials initially dismissed the incident -- which was filmed and circulated on social media by the so-called "ultras" themselves -- as a "prank." Condemnation only came several months later, after another video from the same summer party, this time profaning Christian objects, also went viral.
"These episodes should absolutely not be dismissed," said Bruno Carmi, the head of Verona's tiny Jewish community of about 100, speaking at the Verona synagogue, which is flanked by two armed police patrols. "In my opinion, whoever draws a simple swastika on the wall knows what it means.”

*This article was published on Ynet on February 9, 2018.

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