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August 24th, 2015 - 8 Elul  5775
Hypocrisie By Guido Vitale* "La polémique autour de "Tel-Aviv sur Seine" semble avoir ravivé le débat sur le boycott d'Israël que le mouvement BDS orchestre depuis quelques années. Il y aurait beaucoup à dire sur l'hypocrisie et les motivations réelles de ceux que les 300.000 victimes du conflit syrien ne font pas sourciller, mais pour qui l'organisation d'une journée Tel-Aviv en bord de Seine est insupportable". (Noam Ohama) *Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.   SUMMER BOOKS Trieste By Daniela Gross In the first pages of Trieste, Haya Tedeschi, an elderly woman living in Gorizia in northeastern Italy, waits to be reunited with her son, who was born as part of Himmler’s Lebensborn project. Reflecting on her own life, Haya brings us in the middle of the tragedy of the World War II and of the Italian Holocaust. To tell this story, the Croatian novelist, playwright and critic Dasa Drndic mixes trial transcripts, witness statements, biographical sketches, photographs. Just in the middle of the book, stand out the names of some 9,000 Jews for whose death Italy bears responsibility. A monumental, Sebaldian and deeply painful reading.   Trieste By Dasa Drndic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 368 pp.		NEWS Bibi Netanyahu to Visit Italy By Rossella Tercatin “The Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will visit Italy at the end of the month. The announcement comes only a few weeks after the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited Jerusalem for the first time since he took office. During the visit the Italian PM invited Netanyahu to Italy. According to Italian media, Netanyahu will start his trip by visiting the Universal Exhibition in Milan, where Israel is present with a pavilion located at the very center of the Expo site. The Israeli Prime Minister will then spend two days in Florence, Renzi’s native city, which he often chooses over Rome as the venue for State meetings.   Read more EVENTS Florence, Next Capital of Jewish Culture  By Adam Smulevich The next European Day of Jewish Culture, which will take place on September 6th in over thirty countries, will offer a deep reflection on the meaning of "bridges", both inside and outside the Jewish world. In Italy, the epicenter of the event is going to be the Jewish Community of Florence. In 2015 Florence has been selected as the leading city. The program of the day is going to focus on the themes of meeting, dialogue and mutual recognition between peoples and cultures. Read more featureS - Greece, the Jewish Community and the Crisis By Francesca Matalon “Greek Jews are coping with the crisis in the exact same way as every other Greek citizens do: we anxiously stand in line at ATMs to withdraw fifty euros a day and are concerned about our future in Europe.” This is the straight-to-the-point answer given by Moses Constantinis, president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, when asked about the reaction of Greek Jews to the difficult situation that their country, on the edge of bankruptcy, is facing. Read more Português Reabilitação por Eliezer Di Martino* A Perachá Qui Tetsê mostra-nos a humanidade da lei judaica. Começaremos tomando o seguinte versículo: "Se houver contenda entre alguns, e vierem a juízo para serem julgados, justificar-se-á ao inocente, e ao culpado condenar-se-á. E se o culpado merecer açoites, o juiz fará que ele se deite e seja açoitado na sua presença, de acordo com a gravidade da sua culpa. Até quarenta açoites lhe poderá dar, não mais; para que, porventura, se lhe der mais açoites do que estes, teu irmão não fique envilecido aos teus olhos." (Deuteronômio 25, 1-3) Nós concentrar-nos-emos na última frase: “Teu irmão não fique envilecido aos teus olhos”.   *O rabino Eliezer di Martino é o rabino de Trieste. Leia mais Fearful Racists By Anna Foa* Led by rightwing extremists from Militia and Casa Pound, the “Italian citizens” who hurled abuse at some refugees in Rome and in Treviso - in Veneto, in the North of Italy - setting their belongings on fire, aiming for their expulsion and claiming that they “do not want niggers,” deny being racist. “We are acting out of fear - say the protesters - we fear the immigrants, and this is the reason we don’t want them.” This kind of explanation has been circulating in the mass media for a long time. What is this fear? Are we so sure that it has nothing to do with racism? *Anna Foa is an historian. The article was translated by Isabella Favero, student at the Scuola superiore traduttori e interpreti di Trieste. Read more
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