By Pagine Ebraiche staff* The appointment is set in the wounded city that during this difficult summer received all the love and support of the country. Genoa will host the 2018 edition of The European Day of Jewish Culture, that in Italy is celebrated on October 14. The theme chose, “Storytelling” is an age-old Jewish …
By Rossella Tercatin Limmud Italia doubles down. For 2018, the Italian branch of the UK-based Jewish charity that for the past 30 years has positioned its annual conferences among the most popular events on the Jewish international scene has decided not to limit itself to its fifth event on the Italian peninsula. After the by …
By Daniel Reichel “We saw each other here a year ago and many things have changed since then: back then I was pretty much alone while now I have my new staff, including administrators, architects and art historians”. When the staff of the newsroom of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) met with Andreina …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff The Israel Cycling Academy was the first Israeli team ever to participate in a prestigious cycling race like the Giro D’Italia that after starting in Jerusalem at the beginning of May finished in Rome on Sunday May 27, 2018. If the team didn’t succeed in winning a stage, there has still …
The following is the lecture delivered by Professor Jean-Frédéric Schaub on the occasion of the Conference ‘The Racial Laws: Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage’. My presentation invites to consider the fourteenth/fifteenth-century Iberian societies as a laboratory of racial categories, and as a first case of “guerre des races” (“war of races”), …
The following is the lecture delivered by Professor Steven T. Katz on the occasion of the Conference ‘The Racial Laws: Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage’. Antisemitism as we know it was given much of its decisive character and form as a result of a crisis within the Jewish community, a crisis …
The following is the speech given by Ambassador Sandro De Bernardin on the occasion of the Conference ‘The Racial Laws: Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage’. Distinguished guests, I welcome you to this Conference, that takes place on the day when the Giro d’Italia ends in Rome arriving from Jerushalaim, “the City …
The following is the speech given by the President of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities on the occasion of the Conference ‘The Racial Laws: Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage’. Dear Mr. Chairman De Bernardin, Dear Representatives and Guests, Illustrious speakers, On behalf of the 21 Italian Jewish Communities, I …
Sylvan Adams, presidente honorario del comité de la Gran Partida del Giro de Italia y copropietario de la Israel Cycling Academy, pone de manifiesto su objetivo: convertir Israel en un “paraíso de la bicicleta”. Lo dice exactamente así y, en este sentido, el Giro de Italia representa un punto de partida fundamental para alcanzar metas …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff Rav Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of Great Britain and a prominent contemporary intellectual, met with the Jews of Florence in an event organized by the local branch of the Chassidic movement Chabad-Lubavitch. He was introduced by the Chabad emissary rav Levi Wolwowsky. “Take risks and work hard. And if you …
By Pagine Ebraiche Staff Javier Zanetti, former captain and current vice-president of the Inter-Milan soccer team, visited the Shoah Memorial of Milan with 400 players of the Inter soccer school and of the Olimpia Milan basketball school. The visit was part of the initiative to raise awareness against racism “#TweetOffRacism – Siamo Fratelli Del Mondo” …
Salvo D’Acquisto, le carabinier napolitain qui a sacrifié sa vie pour sauver celles de beaucoup de civils. Irena Sendler, l’infirmière polonaise qui a aidé 2500 enfants à s’échapper du ghetto de Varsovie. L’allemand Armin T. Wegner, qui a documenté pour la première fois le génocide arménien et, plus tard, s’est opposé à la Shoah. Etty …
Adam Smulevich En la playa de Tel Aviv, se oye ahora la misma incitación que lo empujó hacia las más altas cumbres de los Alpes durante años: “¡Vamos, Gibo!”. Esto es prácticamente pan comido para los cinco veteranos del ciclismo italiano que, estos últimos días, se están levantando muy temprano por la mañana para recorrer …
By Gretchen Rachel Hammond* In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people. Far below him, thousands had packed into the square. As he delivered a screaming proclamation, his outstretched arm fell back across his body …
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 …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff Today there are “too many signals of a rising anti-Semitism. We have to fight it, because our own safety is at stake”, pleaded the Italian foreign minister, Angelino Alfano, during the International Conference on the Responsibility of States, Institutions and Individuals in the Fight against Anti-Semitism. The conference, held in Rome …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff About a thousand people took part in the second edition of the “Run for MEM” last week in Bologna. The non-competitive sports event was created by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) to promote awareness and knowledge about the Holocaust. Attending the event was the popular Italian singer Gianni …
By Adam Smulevich Vittorio Emanuele III, the king who signed Mussolini’s Racial Laws against Jews in 1938 is guilty “in front of history” for this act. This is the decision reached at the end of the mock trial against the Italian monarch that was held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. The …
By Daniel Reichel On December 12, 2017, at the Casa della Musica in Parma, the finalists of the Musical Composition Competition inspired by Jewish Tradition will present their musical works. The project is promoted by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities together with the Jewish Community of Parma and the Casa della Musica. It aims …
By Daniel Reichel A delegation of the Italian High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) – guided by the deputy president Giovanni Legnini and the president of the Supreme Court of Cassation Giovanni Canzi, visited Israel last week. The mission was aimed at making connections with Israeli judicial representatives. On Sunday the delegation – accompanied …