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March 21, 2016 - Adar II 11, 5776

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A Portrait of Italian Jewish Life

By Giulio Disegni

The vice-president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Giulio Disegni delivered the following speech before the general assembly of the World Jewish Congress, which took place in Buenos Aires last week.

The history of the Jews of Italy spans more than two thousand years. The Jewish presence in Italy dates to the pre-Christian Roman period and has continued, despite the great influence of Catholic Church on the country.
We have currently 21 Jewish communities from north to south and every one has a special history for its’ origins, traditions and culture. Jewish life continues with many projects in education, Jewish schools, kashrut, the fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Furthermore we continue to produce Jewish culture.

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“Venice Connects Past and Future”

By Ada Treves*

“My name is Živa”. Thanks to the way she introduces herself one can understand many things about her. It is not all about her raspy voice: I feel her strong and vaguely unsettling presence while she gazes at the pictures hung on the walls of her Ikona Gallery. Despite being motionless and silent, I sense her uncommon grit and her craving for wonderful and real things. In order to understand her we have to look back: “I was born in Zagreb in 1945, twenty minutes after my twin brother Ognjen, but I did not cry, so my mother asked «To je živa? Is she alive?». So I became Živa”. These are the first words of a video produced by the University of Nova Gorica in 2014, in which Živa tells her story, beginning from one of her 1976 works, in which the sound of an old camera accompanies the image of a young black-and-white hand caressing a wall. This hand is replaced by Živa Kraus's hand; she is a painter, art dealer and artist. Her fingers, the skin marked by time, lightly touch the walls of her Venice: “I arrived in Venice chasing my inner voice… After my first solo exhibit, in Zagreb, I was thinking about going to Paris, but in the end something brought me here, to this unique city”.
Her profound love for Venice does not stop her from criticizing the place whose changes she has experienced, a place which “should not be compared to anything, because it is unique and peculiar.”

*This article has been translated by Ilaria Modena, student at the Scuola superiore interpreti e traduttori di Trieste, ‎who is doing her apprenticeship in the newsroom of Pagine Ebraiche.

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Livorno Remembered Rabbi Elio Toaff

By Adam Smulevich

The Jewish Community of Livorno honored the memory of Elio Toaff, who served as Chief Rabbi of Rome for 51 years, eleven months after his demise. Rabbi Toaff, who was born in Leghorn in 1915, was one of the most important figures in the history of Italy and European Jewry.
Open to the entire city, the commemoration started in the municipality palace and was attended, among others, by the mayor Filippo Nogarin, the president of the local Jewish Community Vittorio Mosseri, Chief Rabbi Yair Didi, the president of the Jewish Community of Rome Ruth Dureghello and rabbi Gianfranco Di Segni.

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Venice Super-Star on DafDaf

By Ada Treves

Venice is the main star of issue 66 of DafDaf, the Jewish magazine for kids, in time for the first initiatives organized for the fifth centenary of the Jewish Ghetto, the area that has become a universal symbol of exclusion.
"Campo del Ghetto, in Venice, is surrounded by canals, and it resembles a small island. It is a square, in fact, and like all those of the city on the Lagoon it is called Campo. But it is an unusually large Campo, and it is not uncommon to find someone who will take the opportunity to play some football!"
Some info about the museum, the particularities of the various "scole", the synagogues, some info about the language and the images from "The Ghetto of Venice, 500 Years of Life," the film directed by Emanuela Giordano form a beginner's guide to Venice. The illustrations chosen for DafDaf come from "a small guide that is really worth taking along when visiting Venice with kids": part of the homonymous Edizioni EL series, the "Guidina" (small guide) of Venice is written by Sarah Rossi and illustrated by Stefano Turconi and besides giving precise information on the best routes to discover the city it narrates much of its history, its people and its traditions.

BECHOL LASHON - Español Apuestas de Roberto Della Rocca* La Torah nos cuenta que Aarón, el primer Sumo Sacerdote, tendrá mérito de llevar en su corazón “todos los nombres de los hijos de Israel” (Shemot, 28; 30) grabados en las piedras engastadas en el pectoral del juicio con las que interpretaba la voluntad del Eterno. *Roberto Della Rocca es un rabino. Este artículo ha sido traducido en español por Letizia Anelli, estudiante de la Scuola superiore traduttori e interpreti di Trieste, que está haciendo su práctica para la revista Pagine Ebraiche. Leia mas	pilpul Humbleness By Benedetto Carucci Viterbi* “Every mitzvah requires a appropriate deliberateness. The only exception is humbleness. A deliberate humbleness is not valid.” (Menachem Mendel, Kotzk rebbe). *Benedetto Carucci Viterbi is a rabbi. Read more

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Una interpretación perniciosa By Guido Vitale "Identificar «los movimientos sectarios y las corrientes totalitarias» como una «interpretación perniciosa y distorsionada» del islam. Detectar el lenguaje del fanatismo. Reconocer «en qué momento un individuo se identifica con el radicalismo violento» o valorar la importancia de concienciar contra «las perversiones» del extremismo en uno de los grupos de mayor riesgo: los jóvenes. Son algunos de las contenidos para la prevención del terrorismo que, por primera vez, han sido incluidos en los currículos de Religión Islámica que se impartirán a los alumnos musulmanes en centros educativos públicos y concertados según lo diseñado por la Comisión Islámica Española." (Abc, Madrid 19 marzo 2016). Read more	altrove/elsewhere An Embroiderer’s Work By Daniel Leisawitz* Last Shabbat, Jews all over the world read the last chapters of the book of Exodus, in which the final priestly accoutrements are made, the Mishkan is completed, and its components and furnishings are brought to Moses for assembly in order to prepare the Tabernacle for the arrival and indwelling of the divine Presence. Among the final preparations is the fabrication of the priestly vestments, which are made according to precise instructions given by G-d, as to color, material and form. In addition to the woven tunics, decorated turbans, and linen breeches are “sashes of fine twisted linen, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, done in embroidery – as the Lord had commanded Moses” (Ex. 39:29). The detail that interests me here is the ma‘aseh roqem: the “embroidery,” or literally, “embroiderer’s work.” *Daniel Leisawitz, professor at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA). The artwork is by Abraham Cresques a 14th-century Jewish Spanish cartographer. Read more

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