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December 23th, 2013 - 20 Tevet 5774
"A Comparison that Offends Italy and Holocaust Victims" “The life of European Jews under the Nazis was marked by a vortex of violence, persecution and death, a catastrophe not only for Jewish people, but for the whole of human kind. Any comparison with the Berlusconi family situation is therefore not only inappropriate and unacceptable, but also offensive towards the memory of people who were deprived of every right and of their very own lives after atrocious sufferings”, UCEI's president Renzo Gattegna said in a statement, after Silvio Berlusconi said that his family feels as Jews must have felt under Hitler's regime.   Read More Italian Inquisition site hosts Hanukkah candle ceremony A Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony was held in the Steri Palace Prison in Palermo in Italy, which served as a prison during the Spanish Inquisition. The candle lighting Wednesday was sponsored by the Shavei Israel organization and led by Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, the organization’s emissary to the Bnei Anousim, or Crypto-Jews, in southern Italy and Sicily. Italian Jewish leaders and about 100 Bnei Anousim from the Palermo area attended the event, according to Shavei Israel. The organization seeks to bring descendants of hidden Jews back to their roots. “For 200 years, Jews were tortured within the palace’s walls, and many were then burned at the stake by the Inquisition for secretly practicing Judaism,” said Michael Freund, Shavei Israel’s founder and chairman. “In the place where the darkness of the Inquisition once predominated, the flicker of our Hanukkah candles now prevails".   Read more		dialogue Italian Rabbis and Bergoglio by Adam Smulevich and Daniel Reichel What do Italian Rabbis think about Bergoglio? What is the impact of his action on interfaith dialogue? Those are the questions Pagine Ebraiche, the magazine of Italian Jewry asked some prominent Italian Rabbis, in a story which was also run by the Holy See Daily. arts and culture Aldo Finzi's Masterwork Debuts 70 Years Later by Rossella Tercatin Moments before he passed away, in 1945, composer Aldo Finzi whispered the words, “Fate suonare la mia musica” (“Let my music be performed”). Recently, on a particularly cold December night, his last and greatest wish was fulfilled in the 19th-century Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo, less than 35 miles away from the legendary La Scala Opera House, where Finzi’s opera “La Serenata al Vento” (“The Serenade to the Wind”) should have been performed nearly 70 years ago. The limits of interfaith dialogue A symphony that sounds wrong by Riccardo Di Segni On the 15th of November the Osservatore Romano published an interview with Rabbi David Rosen (“Why we cannot be enemies”) which, among other things, includes this question: “At the end of June, Auschwitz hosted a celebration in memory of Holocaust victims, with important rabbis, cardinals and bishops, where a symphony on sufferance was played. You where there. What did this mean to Jews?”. Rabbi Rosen answered: “Similar concerts have been organized in many other places too, but the one in Auschwitz has been the most powerful demonstration of the love between us”. I do think it is important to explain what happened and the reasons for my disagreement with Rabbi Rosen and with the other rabbis who were present. Riccardo Di Segni is the Chief Rabbi of Rome
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