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June 27, 2016 - Sivan 21, 5776

CULTURE

"Venice, Jews and Europe 1516-2016"
Opens at Doge's Palace in Venice

The area was defined by two gates which, as pointed out by the Senate on 29 March, 1516, would be opened in the morning to the sound of the “Marangona” (the bell in St. Mark’s belfry that established the city’s daily timetable) and closed at night at midnight by four Christian keepers, paid by the Jews and required to reside on site without their family in order to be better able to fulfil their supervisory duties. Moreover, two high walls were to have been built (but were never constructed) to enclose the area on the side of canals surrounding it, walling up all the banks on said canals. Two Council of Ten boats with guards paid by the new “castle-dwellers” would cruise along the canal around the island at night to ensure its security. On the following 1 April, the “grida” (“declaration”) was proclaimed in Rialto and from the bridges in every city district in which Jews resided.

Organised on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the creation of Venice’s Ghetto, curated by Donatella Calabi with the scientific coordination of Gabriella Belli and the contribution of a large pool of scholars, the Venice, the Jews and Europe 1516 - 2016 exhibition aims to describe the processes that led to the creation, implementation and transformation of the first “fence” for Jews in the world.
At the same time, the exhibition expands to a wider horizon, embracing the relations established with the rest of the city and with other Jewish (and other) districts in Italy and Europe, to emphasise the fruitful relations between Jews and Venice and between Jews and civil society in the different periods of their long stay in the lagoon, in the Veneto area and in Europe and the Mediterranean.

news

Looking at Brexit, from Italy

By Rossella Tercatin

The results of the milestone referendum that stated that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union left most Italians shocked and saddened. Italian Jews are not an exception: after the news broke, social networks were flooded with disappointed, sad or angry comments regarding the British decision.
To express the feeling of deep concern over the future of the European political project was the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Renzo Gattegna.
“The Europe that we used to know, the one that was born from the ashes of the Second World War, the free, open and inclusive Europe that was imagined and built by our forefathers, is now threatened. We are heading towards some difficult months and all the moderates of Europe are being called to cooperate to avoid other ugly surprises that could put the most important attainments of democracy in danger,” he said. He called for all European nations to contrast populism and the resurgence of xenophobic groups.

NEWS

A New Council for the Union
of Italian Jewish Communities

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) has a new council. The electoral commission composed of the general secretaries of the UCEI, the Jewish Community of Rome, and the Jewish community of Milan, Gloria Arbib, Emanuele Di Porto and Alfonso Sassun, announced the name of the new members on Tuesday June 21, after the elections held on the previous Sunday.
The Council is made up of 52 members.
Twenty of them are elected from Rome, where four lists were presented to the members of the community. Kol Israel won 8 seats with 38.2% of the votes (Ruth Dureghello, Gianni Ascarelli, Settimio Di Porto, Raffaele Sassun, Claudio Moscati, Franca Formiggini Anav, Gianluca Pontecorvo, Angelo Sed). Menorah won 5 seats with 27.5% of the votes (Livia Ottolenghi, Guido Coen, David Meghnagi, Hamos Guetta, Victor Magiar). Binah won 5 seats with 23.2% of the votes (Noemi Di Segni, Sabrina Coen, Jacqueline Fellus, Davide Jona Falco, Saul Meghnagi). Israele siamo noi won 2 seats with 11% of the votes (Marco Sed, Giacomo Moscati).
The turn-out in Rome was 24.7% (up four points compared to 2012).

NEWS

Italian Jewish Leaders Comment
Municipal Elections

By Daniel Reichel

On June 19, some of the most important Italian cities elected their mayors. Rome will be now governed by the first woman mayor, Virginia Raggi of the Five Star Movement (M5S). In Milan the center-left candidate Beppe Sala of the Democratic Party won against Stefano Parisi, the candidate supported by the right. As in the capital, the voters in Turin chose a woman from the Five Star Movement, Chiara Appendino. In Naples Luigi De Magistris, a former prosecutor, was confirmed for his second mandate and the same thing happened in Bologna with Virginio Merola (Democratic Party). In Trieste, the right wing candidate Roberto Di Piazza won against the incumbent mayor Roberto Cosolini.
All those cities will face some changes in the coming years. Particularly Rome and Turin will see changes, where Raggi and Appendino were elected for their anti-establishment positions. For this reason, there is a big debate in Italy about the future of these cities and also in the rest of the country. The debate is going on as well in the Italian Jewish community. Jewish leaders reacted in different ways to the results of the elections.

BECHOL LASHON - Français Visage par Benedetto Carucci Viterbi* “Que le Seigneur tourne son visage vers vous ...". La bénédiction, comme elle apparaît dans la partie de la Torah qu'on a lue ces derniers jours, est d'être sous le regard vigilant et attentif de Dieu. Nous lui demandons tout simplement de ne pas tourner son visage loin des affaires humaines. *Benedetto Carucci Viterbi est un rabbin. L'article a été traduit par Francesca Matalon. Lire la suite	pilpul Frankfurt and Venice By Susanna Calimani* Although the UK has just voted for the Brexit, let us stick to important things. Last month, almost a year after moving to Frankfurt, my parents came to visit me. We toured the city, they came to my workplace, explored the unexplored, compared the city to Venice: something better, something worse, something not comparable. The pros and cons, the weather and the food (Frankfurt-Venice 0-2), the neighborhood life and the lack of tourists (Frankfurt-Venice 2-2). Since Jews always look for local Jewish life and heritage, halfway between a treasure hunt and an inborn attraction, on Sunday morning we went to visit the recently restored Judengasse. *Susanna Calimani is a wandering economist, currently based in Frankfurt. Read more

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW The Fundamental Flaw By Guido Vitale "Indeed, far from Brexit hurting minorities, the real problem for minorities comes when politics ignores such concerns - when the mainstream loses touch with people and the only vehicles left to make a point are extremists. Marine Le Pen is surging in France not because all the French are fascists but because the French governing class – Eurofanatical to the core - treats its voters with contempt. That has been the EU’s fundamental flaw. It regards voters as uncouths who need to have what’s good for them imposed on them. Just look at Greece. That’s how and when extremists prosper – and that’s when the Jews suffer." (Stephen Pollard, The Jewish Chronicle) Read more	italics Brexit and the Nazis By Daniela Gross In addition to Brexit, let’s speak about the return of the Nazis. The founder of Il Fatto Quotidiano Antonio Padellaro urged readers, last Sunday, not to limit their focus on the English upheaval. As he was writing, the UK’s EU referendum was yet to be voted, but, in any case, his call sounds both imperative and worrying. The relationship between Brexit and Nazism is closer that it might seem. First of all, as Padellaro reminded, the man who murdered the British Labour Party politician Jo Cox is supposedly a sympathizer with neo-Nazi groups hostile to Europe and supporters of apartheid. Next, while this tragedy was hitting the UK “in France hordes of Russians, Croatians, English, and Germans were devastating cities and stadiums during the European cup: divided by football, but united by Nazi symbols and by xenophobe slogans.” Read more

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