By Yaakov Mascetti*
Identity is an implanted concept in my formation which has caused me many, many problems in the last few years. When my father was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 and it looked like, in 2010, he was …
By David Bidussa*
In memory of Paul Celan, who is not wrong to re-read every now and then.
“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night…
By David Bidussa*
I learned many things by listening to a 13-year-old teenager giving a speech for his Bar mitzvah in my synagogue. I summarize some of the things he said. In the scene of the ten commandments, three things …
By Adam Smulevich
Women from various cultural and religious identities and traditions accepted the invitation of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, together with the Interreligious Table in Rome and the Italian Jewish Center Il Pitigliani, to meet and knead …
By David Bidussa
Jewish memory has defined two paradigms of the danger of annihilation and the defeat of the annihilator. Both are in Shemot a few chapters away. The first is the liberation from Egypt; the second the episode of …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
With respect to the Divine commandment of “Lech Lecha” in the Book of Genesis I have argued here that Abraham imposed abandonment of his home, his culture and his father’s embrace is really an act of foundation …
By David Bidussa
“The provocateurs, the abusers, all those who, in any way, do wrong to others are guilty’ not only of the evil they commit, but of the perversion to which they lead the souls of the offended.” (Alessandro …
By David Bidussa
I happened to read by chance some pages by Michel de Montaigne, pages dedicated to cannibals (Essays, Book I, chap. XXXI). The philosopher reflects on the episodes of cannibalism that characterized the religious war between Catholics and …
By David Bidussa*
It is time to take stock. The Holocaust Remembrance Day turns 20. I ask myself many questions, two often come back to me. The first: in these 20 years the Shoah has been the most remembered event, …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
The Biblical act of seeing is never univocal, never simple. Rather, seeing is, by and large, a matter of will – perception entails a degree of preparation and of focus. To see is to know – and …