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September 12, 2016 - Elul 9, 5776

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NEWS

President of Italian Jewish Communities
Meets President of Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni met with the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale Palace last week.
Di Segni, who was elected last June as the new head of the umbrella organization that groups and represents the 21 Italian Communities was accompanied by her predecessor Renzo Gattegna.
Among the topics discussed during the meeting were the fight against Islamic terrorism, the protection of democratic values in Italy and Europe, the upcoming European Day of Jewish Culture and the role and contribution of the Jewish community to Italian society.

NEWS

New Israeli Ambassador Takes Post in Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Ofer Sachs, the new Israeli ambassador to Italy took up his post last week. Sachs previously served as the chief executive officer of the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute. Between 2006 and 2011 he was posted in Brussels to supervise the cooperation between Israel and the European Union in the field of agriculture.
“I come from a small agricultural community in Israel, not too far from the old Roman city of Caesarea. My family has been a farming family for more than four generations and in this respect I’m very happy to be here in Italy, in a country that has such an impressive agricultural heritage,” he highlighted in a message published on the social networks.

events

Celebrating Culture in Mantua

By Ada Treves

The twentieth edition of the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, the most famous of the many cultural festivals that are organized in September all over Italy has been like a very long party. A festive edition - during the year that has Mantua as Italian Culture Capital - that has seen a huge participation with an attentive and passionate public that started filling the many spaces devoted to the Festival already a few days in advance: more than 800 people for Jonathan Safran Foer, and roughly 600 for the opening concert in the Cathedral. The edition has managed to put together continuity and innovation, building on its very tradition but also experimenting with unknown authors and new original productions, building at the same time a network of collaborators that grows stronger every year.

news

Group of Italian Soccer Fans Who Gave Fascist Salute Receives Strong Condemnation

By Adam Smulevich

Carlo Tavecchio, the president of the Italian Football Federation, strongly condemned the behavior of a group of Italian fans who gave fascist salutes before the match between Israel and Italy in Haifa last Monday. The game was the first World Cup qualifier match.
The episode, which is still under investigation, was brought to public attention by our daily newsletter Pagine Ebraiche 24 and our website, www.moked.it, both quoted by major Italian and international newspapers. The Israel Football Association transferred the photos to their Italian counterpart in order to identify and reach out to fans responsible for this manifestation of hatred.

bechol lashon - Français

Pauvreté

par Roberto Della Rocca*

“Quand il y aura parmi vous un pauvre... vous ne fermerez pas votre main pour lui...» (Devarim, 15; 7). Ceci est l'un des nombreux versets que nous avons lus dans la Paracha de Re'eh, avec lesquels la Torah nous pousse à aider les nécessiteux. Si nous traduisons ce verset littéralement on pourrait lire "..quand un pauvre est en vous-même...". C'est l'une des significations de ce passage. Comprendre que la pauvreté réside dans chacun de nous, et que, à tous moment, même ceux qui vivent dans le bien-être pourraient tomber dans la pauvreté.

**Roberto Della Rocca est un rabbin. Traduction par Francesca Matalon.

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pilpul

Judging Women's Body

By Susanna Calimani*

Whether it is about burkinis on French beaches, a controversial campaign about fertility in Italy, the pretty extreme slits on the red carpet at the Venice film festival, or the introduction of "curvy" candidates for Miss Italia, I have the feeling it is always about the same issue: someone else judging women's body and telling their owners what to do with them.
I am no doctor, but although it is not clear what exactly, there is something sick in all this.

*Susanna Calimani is a wandering economist, currently based in Frankfurt.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Un Estado judío

By Guido Vitale

"En el sur de Tel Aviv, Moshé cierra su kiosco en sabbat. «Necesitamos un día de descanso. Es un tema social pero también religioso ya que Israel es un Estado judío», reivindica". (El Mundo, septiembre 2016)

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italics

Life of Venice Ghetto
on Exhibit in Berkeley

By Laura Paull*

In the late-modern period of the Italian Renaissance, Jews living on the Italian Peninsula translated the phonetic sounds of the regional name Italia into Hebrew: I-Tal-Yah, or “Island of Divine Dew.” It was a linguistic pun.
That the Jews of 15th- and 16th-century Italy would make this lighthearted joke might reflect a certain comfort in their milieu, as opposed to, say, inquisitorial Spain, from which many had fled to their more tolerant neighbor to the east. Or it might speak of sophistication, an outcome of the dense mixing of diverse Jewish cultures in the Italian Peninsula for more than 2,000 years.

*This article was published in the JWeekly
on September 8, 2016.

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