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\"italics\"<\/a>By Cnaan Liphshiz*<\/strong><\/p>\n

The outbreak of the coronavirus in northern Italy forced Claudia Bagnarelli to make a painful choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo keep visiting my 94-year-old mother, I needed to stop seeing everyone else in my life,\u201d Bagnarelli, a Jewish ballet teacher from Milan, said Monday.<\/p>\n

To avoid the risk of infecting her mother with the virus, Bagnarelli has gone into indefinite self-quarantine. On Monday, the Italian government ordered a lockdown of the country \u2014 including a ban on all travel and public events \u2014 in an effort to contain the spread of the disease that has already killed over 460 people there. The total number of confirmed Italian cases is nearly 10,000. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow I stay in my apartment all day, don\u2019t see anybody in person and only go out to go see my mother,\u201d Bagnarelli said. \u201cThe hardest part is not being able to see my daughter and granddaughter, whom I normally see every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very difficult. I\u2019m an Italian-Jewish mother, after all.\u201d <\/p>\n

The situation in Italy, which has a population of about 60 million, has disrupted the lives of countless Italians, many of whom have been cut off from their friends and loved ones. But Jews in Italy appear to be particularly affected because so many of them have children in Israel and other countries. <\/p>\n

Italy has about 30,000 Jews, about 8,000 of whom live in Milan. Israel is home to approximately 10,000 Italian emigres, according to the Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn Milan, a lot of Jews can\u2019t see their kids,\u201d said one such local Jewish mother of three, Sara Modena. \u201cIt\u2019s separating families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Modena\u2019s daughter arrived in Israel following the coronavirus outbreak in Italy and had to go into a two-week quarantine. (On Monday, Israel said it would force all incoming travelers, regardless of where they come from, to undergo a two-week quarantine, and on Tuesday announced it will force all tourists to leave.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to choose between staying and taking care of my parents, who are in their 80s, and staying with my three children in Israel,\u201d Modena, a 53-year-old attorney, said about the time before the quarantine.<\/p>\n

She chose her parents even though one of her children broke his leg.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least they\u2019re all together over there,\u201d Modena said of her offspring in Israel.<\/p>\n

As part of their action to stop the virus\u2019 spread, authorities in Italy have ordered the closure of all schools \u2013 including Milan\u2019s Jewish school, La Scuola Ebraica, which has 500 students \u2013 as well as churches, community centers and non-essential offices. The city, a major industry and fashion hub with one of Europe\u2019s most vivacious nightlife scenes, \u201clooks like a ghost town,\u201d said Alon Schachter, a 37-year-old programmer who moved there from Israel in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place always reminded me of Tel Aviv,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of sad to see it deserted now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, the president of the Jewish Community of Milan organization, Milo Hasbani, told congregants in a statement that synagogues will not be open for activities around the Jewish holiday of Purim, which began Monday night.<\/p>\n

Bagnarelli, the ballet teacher as well as a founder of Milan\u2019s Jewish school, said she provides her ballet students with short videos of exercises, \u201cso they can at least stay fit for when we can resume classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decrees isolating the north of Italy will be in place until April 3 at least and may well be extended.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Moshe Lazar, the emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to Milan, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Jewish burials are taking place despite the announcement by local authorities about the blanket suspension of funerals.<\/p>\n

\u201cFunerals will just have to be very small, but they will go on as usual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Unlike Christianity, Judaism requires a swift burial.<\/p>\n

The first Jewish burial under the new provisions in Milan is set to take place Tuesday at the local Jewish cemetery. Only a handful of close relatives will attend, a friend of the family of the deceased, a woman in her 90s who died of medical complications unrelated to the coronavirus, told JTA.<\/p>\n

Schachter is scheduled to travel to Israel for Passover, which this year falls on April 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t see how going to Israel will be possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There is one bright side: Supermarkets in Milan are still well stocked, several city residents told JTA. Lazar said Milan and other cities have provisions for Passover, and that in any case the outbreak does not seem set to affect the community\u2019s ability to carry out shechitah, the ritual slaughter of animals that is required to make meat kosher.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor people in places that aren\u2019t affected right now, I think it\u2019s a good idea to stock up now on food and medical supplies and just generally put in order now all kinds of affairs, things you need to sort out with the authorities or inside the family, before it becomes much more difficult,\u201d Modena said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a chance that what\u2019s happening in Milan today will play itself out elsewhere very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n


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