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February 27, 2016 - Adar 1, 5777

NEWS

Italian Minister of Education Visits
Jewish School in Rome

By Ada Treves

Two intense and emotional hours in the Jewish school of Rome: this was the surprising outcome of a visit of the Italian Minister for Education, University and Research that was supposed to be a rushed first occasion of knowledge and discovery. Last Thursday, Valeria Fedeli took the time to meet with all local and national representatives of the Jewish communities that run one of the four Jewish schools still resisting in Italy, notwithstanding the many difficulties.
After visiting the school, and having attended some classes, the Minister had a strong message to share with the students: "Study, and take your own responsibilities: this is the only way to be citizens of the world."

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Italian MP Works on New Law
against Fascist Propaganda

By Adam Smulevich

Passing a law against Fascist propaganda in Italy is a project on which the MP Emanuele Fiano of the Democratic Party has been working for many years. Now it may finally be done. A vote by the Parliament could be put on the agenda in the next few months.
Fiano explains that the goal is to punish certain behaviors that individually considered are not deemed as crimes, without changing the laws already existing. For instance, the Roman salute when not done with the purpose of forming an association or to serve the goals of the old Fascist party, ends up not being by itself punishable in the current system.
Equally serious and not just a matter of folklore is the whole and complex business built around the sale and the trade of gadgets, wine bottles, symbols and slogans explicitly recalling the Fascist and Nazi regime.

CULTURE

CDEC Digital Library, a Trove of Testimonies
on Italian Jewish Life

By Rossella Tercatin

Every family has drawers full of photos from the past, and every single one of them could be a potential piece in the mosaic of history, if only there was a venue to collect and categorize them. For Italian Jewish families, this opportunity is now offered by the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC), a Milan-based non-profit and research center that was created to study and preserve the knowledge, awareness and documents of what happened during the Holocaust. Today it is a pillar not only of Holocaust studies in Italy, but also on Italian Jewish life and history in the contemporary world.
To add relevance to the CDEC’s activities, the center offers a Digital Library where all the pictures they received from 2001 onwards are accessible online, from every corner of the world, together with many videos, and other documentation.

bECHOL LASHON - Français

Offrir ce que l'on n'a pas

par Marc Abitbol*

Pour construire le Tabernacle, Moïse fait un appel aux dons: les Hébreux doivent contribuer en personne à l'édification de la résidence divine. Au-delà des apports en argent, c'est du budget spirituel, du supplément d'âme apporté par chacun, dont dépend la solidité de la maison d'Israël.

*Marc Abitbol est chef d’entreprise.
Akadem.org 26.2.2017

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Geometric Forms

By Sergio Della Pergola*

The bi-dimensional geometric form that best expresses the current geopolitical situation of the Western world is a spiral. If we look at it in a tridimensional way, it is a vortex.

*Sergio Della Pergola is a professor emeritus of demography at the Hebrew University in Israel.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Keine Ahnung

Guido Vitale

“Trump hat keine Ahnung” (Amos Oz, Der Spiegel 25-2-2017)

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Vatican and Rome’s Jewish Museum Team Up
for Menorah Exhibit

By Elisabetta Povoledo*

This much is known: In 70 AD the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, looted the temple of its treasure — including a seven-branched solid gold menorah — and brought at least some of the artifacts back to Rome in a triumphant procession. Depictions of the victorious Roman army and its booty are carved on the Arch of Titus, near the Colosseum, built about a decade later to commemorate that military triumph.
What later happened to the menorah has been the object of intense speculation for centuries, giving rise to various, sometimes colorful, legends and scholarly hypotheses over its whereabouts.
Now, Rome’s Jewish community and the Vatican have teamed up to produce an exhaustive exhibition on the menorah, which in time became an enduring symbol of Jewish culture and religion, in a collaboration that leaders of the two communities described as a further step in solidifying their ties.

*This article was published in The New York Times on February 20, 2017.

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