By Guido Vitale “I started writing ‘Tikkun’ immediately after the premiere of my first feature film, ‘The Wanderer’, at Cannes Film Festival 2010. Within a month I had written a treatment that was accepted to Torino Film Lab. I had no doubt that my next film would also be set in the Jewish Ultra Orthodox …
By Guido Vitale “In this film, there is a battle, tension, or maybe collaboration between poetry and vulgarity, between poetry and the world, or the universe, and life, which are always also a bit filthy and vulgar. So I wanted the poetic dimension of the movie to come out of the highest and the lowest.” …
By Guido Vitale “Sometimes we taught our students to belittle and suspect others. One who doesn’t agree with us is criminal, not merely mistaken. Any opportunity to credit a public leader with good intention was rejected in order to credit him with alienation, with hostility, with malice – not a suspicion of evil, but a …
By Guido Vitale “The middle road is the only one which does not lead to Rome” (Arnold Schoenberg)
By Guido Vitale Redazione Aperta, the yearly journalistic workshop organized by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, begins this Monday in Trieste, for its seventh edition. The enthusiasm and the will of growing together are still there, exactly as they where in 2009. Meanwhile the journalists who compose the newsroom have had a huge professional …
By Guido Vitale As announced in the last issue of Pagine Ebraiche, where two pages where already under the new name, soon there will be another instrument to understand Israel. A new and diverse window on the “Reality of Israel” will be opened soon. As the name implies, it will be a new tool to …
By Guido Vitale “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” (Winston Churchill)
By Guido Vitale Chabat est un parfait exemple de temps écologique. Il nous offre une respiration qui nous ramène à l’essentiel. (rav Haim Korsia)
By Guido Vitale “Si l’intégration connaît des ratés, ce n’est pas la faute de la République, c’est faute de République”. (Haim Korsia, gran rabbin de France)
By Guido Vitale “A willing world can end child poverty” (Joseph Stiglitz)
By Guido Vitale “Children, it has long been recognized, are a special group. They do not choose their parents, let alone the broader condizione into which they are born”. (Joseph Stiglitz – Trento, Festival dell’Economia,Trento Festival of Economics)
By Guido Vitale Among the many valuable insights that the Turin Book Fair offered us this year, the exhibition dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the independent Berlin-based publisher Klaus Wagenbach struck a chord with me. I remember meeting Wagenbach at his office in a Berlin still dominated by the Wall. After almost thirty years, …
By Guido Vitale The Jewish magazine Ha Keillah, based in Turin, has celebrated its fortieth anniversary. I had the opportunity to address briefly the friends who have chosen to take part in the joyous birthday party. It happens too often, unfortunately, to see that a Jewish papers is treated with indifference. Sometimes, it never makes …
By Guido Vitale For a long time we have been convinced that we needed Europe. The teaching of the Chief Rabbi of France Rav Haim Korsia in this extraordinary Spring edition of Moked helped us to understand that it is Europe who needs us. (Moked is the conference of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities …
By Guido Vitale “Nous avons appris par l’exprerience vécue que nous etions capables de nous hisser au-dessus de nous-nemes” (Beate, Serge Klarsfeld “Memoires” – Fayard Flammarion 2015)
By Guido Vitale Every day I criss-cross the Italian Jewish world. This Pesach I am at home with my amazing community. Next year in Jerusalem.
By Guido Vitale There are children books, as well as TV shows, which are created from scratch based on the availability of already existing illustrations. “The Book With No Pictures” by B.J. Novak shows the uncomfortable opposite truth: If we want to enhance the value of books and reading in the eyes of the young, …
By Guido Vitale The question is how do we balance a plurality of ideas with a hierarchy of ideas. Through pluralism we make way for new ideas and prevent toxic orthodoxies. Through hierarchies we accept that our ideas are best served by context and that this context can often be found in the wisdom of …
Melamed is the name of a specific section of the national and international press review of www.moked.it , the Portal of Italian Jewry. Born three years ago, it is devoted to pedagogical matters, teaching issues and Jewish education, and every week a selection of the articles on these topics is sent out to teachers, Jewish …
By Guido Vitale “Die Zukunft war früher auch besser” (Karl Valentin)