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May 18, 2020 - Iyar 24, 5780

NEWS

Italian synagogues reopen their doors

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Synagogues have reopened on Monday, as established by the protocol signed by the Italian Government and the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) at the Chigi Palace last week.
The document is the result of fruitful, ongoing dialogue between the two institutions, and provides regulations on all aspects related to the attendance of places of worship.
The outcome was strongly appreciated by UCEI President Noemi Di Segni, who attended the meeting along with Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni, representing the Rabbinical Assembly of Italy (ARI).
They signed the protocol along with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

NEWS

Milan’s Jewish Community establishes committee to study resuming school activites

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Jewish Community of Milan has established a committee to study the issues related to reopening the school after the long shut down caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
The school that offers from kindergarten to high school has been closed since March, with students attending classes online.
The committee held its first meeting at the end of April, also online.

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Back on the banks of the Arno River
in memory of Nathan Cassuto

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

As a child, he remembers taking walks, sometimes close to the Synagogue. And his love for art and beauty, which his father passed on to him during the unforgettable visits of the most important landmarks of their city. These fragments of life are anchored in the memory of David Cassuto, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, and son of the great Rabbi Nathan Cassuto, who was killed in a Nazi camp and, prior to that, had been the head of the Jewish Community of Florence as well as a leading figure of the undercover assistance network which heroically helped persecuted Jews. It was a betrayal that brought about his capture and deportation to extermination camps.
Over the past few months, David went back to Florence to tell his father’s story, but also to thank those who offered assistance to him and to his family at that time. His was a testimony travel documented by the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem.

Translated by Sara Facelli and revised by Mattia Stefani, students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

bechol lashon - DEUTsCH

Das Feiern für Hitlers Niederlage

Anna Foa*

Den 8. Mai 1945: Deutschland unterschreibt die bedingungslose Kapitulation. In vielen Ländern westlichen Europas, wie Frankreich und Groß Britannien, wird dieser Tag als der Tag des Sieges gefeiert (und es wird im östlichen Europa am 9. Mai gefeiert). Was hat denn dieses Datum für Deutschland bedeutet? War das die Niederlage der furchtbaren Nazi Diktatur oder die Niederlage der deutschen Nation? Das ist eine Frage, die die Deutschen für Jahrzehnten geteilt hat.

*Übersetzung von Rachele Ferin, und Revision von Sara Facelli, beide Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Post-Covid and post-war

By David Bidussa*

The idea that the period post-Covid equals the post war period is becoming more and more common. I understand the appeal of comparison, but I believe it is not only wrong, but it creates of confusion and false expectations for at least three reasons. The post-war period is politically the domain of the winner who does not aspire to solidarity but to domination; it presumes a loser on whom to pour all the causes of the ailments and finally it implies an idea of the future.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Catholic Church in Germany ‘complicit’ in
Nazi crimes, German Bishops’ Conference says

By JTA staff*

Catholic bishops in Germany “made themselves complicit” in Nazi crimes according to a report by the German Bishops’ Conference.
At a video news conference Wednesday, the president of the conference, Bishop Georg Baetzing, presented the findings of a 23-page report, “German Bishops in the World War,.”
“Inasmuch as the bishops did not oppose the war with a clear ‘no,’ and most of them bolstered the [German nation’s] will to endure, they made themselves complicit in the war,” the document said, according to a report in Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur.
The report also said that while the bishops did not share Hitler’s racial ideology, they still helped support “both soldiers and the regime,” The Times reported.
Hundreds of bishops provided spiritual guidance on the German front lines during the war and thousands of church properties were converted into military hospitals, staffed by Catholic nuns, the report notes.s.

*The article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on May 3, 2020.

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