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February 15, 2016 - Adar 6, 5776

CULTURE

Shylock Gets Ready to Land in Venice

By Rossella Tercatin

A very special production of “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare is on its way to being presented where it is ideally set, in the heart of the city’s Ghetto.
The production, by Compagnia de’ Colombari, is part of the initiatives to mark the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Ghetto in Venice, the first one in history.
The play will be performed in the Campo de’ Ghetto, the neighborhood main square from July 26 to July 31, 2016. “All during the course of the play, Shylock is and remains a foreigner, an outcast,” director Karin Conrod explained to the Italian newspaper, Pagina99. “For this reason, the character will be performed by five actors, men and women of different ages, nationality and religion. This is to make sure that the audience better understands Shylock’s role as an outsider. This way the painful human nature of the character will be highlighted more than the individual performance of an actor."

NEWS

Historic Bar-Mitzvah in Mantua

By Adam Smulevich

The Jewish community of Mantua, one of the smallest in Italy, celebrated the third bar-mitzvah in just a few months. The bar-mitzvah ceremony marks the moment that a boy becomes responsible for Jewish ritual law, traditions, and ethics. From this time he is able to participate in all areas of Jewish community life.
Alessandro Norsa, 13 years old, shared his emotions with the entire community and was assisted by the chief rabbi of Padua, rav Adolfo Locci, who stood with him on the bima.
“In accepting the commitment of the observance of the Torah, you become an individual on your own, set within a community, with the ability and duty to influence it,” rav Locci told Alessandro in his Davar Torah.

FEATUREs

Milan, a Diverse Jewish Community

By Francesca Matalon

It is time for celebrations for the Jewish Community of Milan. The year 2016 marks the 150th anniversary since its foundation. The following article is the second installment of a two-part series devoted to the history and present life of the Community.

After Second World War, the Jewish community of Milan found its way back to life thanks to hard work and the arrival of new immigrants from many countries, most of which were Arab. People came from Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran, forming a Community featuring a variety of ethnic groups, commonly referred to as edot – something unique in Italy.
“Milan is the most international reality among Italian Jewish Communities, and because of this it is somehow more like Israel than to the rest of Europe,” Milan’s chief rabbi Alfonso Arbib told Pagine Ebraiche. The Italian Jewish paper reached out to some of the people that guided the kehillah through the most recent part of its history.

BECHOL LASHOn - Français Coeur de Benedetto Carucci Viterbi* "Et Itro écouta ...": ainsi commence la parachah qui raconte le don/réception de la Torah. Selon Rav Wolbe ce début est une indication générale de la qualité requise pour recevoir la Torah correctement: la capacité d'écoute; avoir un cœur qui écoute, non seulement des oreilles qui entendent. *Benedetto Carucci Viterbi est rabin. La traduction est de Francesca Matalon. Lire la suite	PILPUl - Double Life February By Daniela Fubini* February is one of the favorite months in my double, even triple life. It counts many blessings: framed by the American high holidays of the Superbowl at the beginning and the Oscars at the end, spiced up in the middle by the Italian musical sanctity of Sanremo: there is never a dumb moment in February. Right. Provided that you are ready to forget about sleep, and follow the holy ceremonies in real time. Who would want to see the already deathly boring American sport the day after, or hear the honey-sounding words "...and the winner is..." even one minute after they are spoken? *Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York. Read more

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Les juifs sont forts By Guido Vitale "Les juifs sont forts, voilà la vérité. Oui. D'abord parce qu'ils ont, eux qui ont toujours été si seuls, des alliés solides - à commencer par les chrétiens. Ensuite parce que leurs ennemis sont idiots, illettrés, véritables crànes rasés de la pensée - rien à voir avec les Céline ou les Paul Morand, qui avaient, hélas, du génie. Et puis parce qu'ils sont forts, enfin, d'une force intérieure dont les antisémites, de gauche comme de droite, n'ont pas la moindre idée et qui est la force de l'esprit". (Bernard-Henri Lévy) Read more	italics The Endless Fascination of Italian Ancient Ghettos By Pagine Ebraiche staff In the coming weeks, Venice will start featuring the many initiatives to remember the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Ghetto in the city. Historically ghettos were the areas where Jews were forced to live by law, stripped of most civil, economic and political rights, often being physically abused and persecuted. Today many locals and tourists are fascinated by ancient Jewish neighborhoods and Venice is not the only city in Italy where the former Jewish ghetto is still home to the local Jewish community. For instance, last week the Italian weekly L’Espresso featured an article on the Jewish quarter of Rome. Read more

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