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December 2, 2019 - Kislev 5, 5780

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Florence celebrates a new chief rabbi

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Rabbi Gadi Piperno has taken office as the new chief rabbi of Florence. He has replaced Rabbi Amedeo Spagnoletto, who served in the position for two years.
Many members of the community gathered on Sunday for a day of learning celebrating both rabbis.

NEWS

Genoa’s warm welcome to Liliana Segre
“She is a symbol of courage”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

“Today we are not talking about haters. We are only talking about those who love,” said Liliana Segre to thousands of people who welcomed her in Genoa for the awarding of the international recognition assigned every year by the Centro Primo Levi.
Many listened to her in the Palazzo Ducale, where the ceremony took place, some others followed her speech on the large screen which was set up in the street for the occasion. This is how Senator for life Segre was greeted in Genoa on the very day in which she was named honorary citizen of the city.
The crowd in the street responded actively and unanimously to those insults, threats and hatred Segre is forced to live with every day.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Sara Facelli, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Second World War bomb defused
near synagogue in Turin

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Thousands of residents were evacuated as explosive experts defused a Second-War-World bomb uncovered in the San Salvario neighborhood in Turin on Sunday.
The 250-kilogram bomb was dropped on the city by the Royal Air force in 1942. It was found during excavations in via Nizza, close to the city’s synagogue.
Over 270 aircraft were used in the 1942 bombing. Among others, the synagogue was hit, as well as part of the Jewish community’s archives. The building was rebuilt in 1946.
The operation to defuse the bomb and take it away was completed successfully by the Italian military.

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Au-dela’ des fake news

Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*

L’utilisation des réseaux sociaux de manière inconsciente et/ou irresponsable entraine beaucoup de dégâts aujourd’hui. En plus de l’augmentation incontrôlée de la violence verbale, l’un des problèmes les plus graves qui grimpe à la première place est la diffusion d’informations, nouvelles et données inexactes, pas vérifiées et parfois (souvent) tout simplement fausses. Beaucoup d’entre nous commettent cette erreur tous les jours en publiant sur Internet des nouvelles et des images qui suscitent notre intérêt, mais dont l’origine est inconnue. Nous contribuons tous à la diffusion de fake news. La mise à terme de cette pratique est un devoir tout d’abord culturel est politique, et il y a des instruments pour nous y aider.

*Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Directeur de la Fondation CDEC. Traduit par Sara Facelli, étudiante de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaire au journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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One-sided

By David Bidussa*

"One-sided" has become a way of saying that will probably mark our time (just as "ce n'est qu'un début, continuons le combat" was in 1968).
It is not the symptom of a residual phenomenon, but of a common cliché that was dormant for a long time and has now risen to new life.
It is a case of "present through the past."

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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Posthumous honor given to Florence chief rabbi for saving Italian Jews in WWII

By TOI staff*

A posthumous award was granted Tuesday in Jerusalem to the former chief rabbi of Florence who was a leader of the Italian city’s Jewish-Christian underground rescue network during the Holocaust.
The Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jews who Rescued Fellow Jews during the Holocaust and the Bnai Brith World Center granted the award to Rabbi Nathan Cassuto, as well as honoring Matilda Cassin, a member of the underground.
The citations were presented to Asher Varadi, Cassin’s son, and David Cassuto, son of Rabbi Cassuto.

*AP contributed to this report. The article was published in the Times of Israel on November 27, 2019.

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