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June 12, 2017 - Sivan 18, 5777

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Italian Prime Minister Visits Synagogue
to Pay Tribute to Libyan Jews

By Adam Smulevich

The Prime Minister of Italy Paolo Gentiloni visited the synagogue of Rome last week on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Libyan Jews in Italy.
"The Jewish communities in Italy are highly sensitive on the subjects of immigration and acceptance. They are aware of the tremendous efforts Italy has been making despite the difficulties, controversies and dangers so as not to close the doors to those who escape from war. Jewish Communities understand all of this because they have experienced it themselves personally,” PM Gentiloni stressed this during his speech in the synagogue which was completely full.

NEWS

After Quake, Solidarity through Sports

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

On July 2, 2017, a new five-a-side soccer field will be inaugurated in the village of Scai, part of the municipality of Amatrice, one of the areas most severely hit by the earthquake in the summer of 2016.
The field was again brought to life thanks to a donation by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
The inauguration will be celebrated with a special event, a soccer match with the cooperation of many non-profit organizations, including the Italian branch of Maccabi.

evenTS

Limmud Italia Marks Its Fourth Edition

By Pagine Ebraiche Staff

For the fourth year in a row, a Limmud event took place in Florence, Italy in the first week of June.
Based on the format started in the United Kingdom over thirty years ago, Limmud events bring together thousands of participants from all over the world to many different locations for programs devoted to Jewish education in all forms.
The three day Italian event, completely booked since April, featured over 50 sessions over the course of a week end from Friday to Sunday.

bECHOL LASHON - Français

Venise: reportage sur 500 ans de présence juive

Times of Israel staff

Le ghetto de Venise fêtait ses 500 ans l’année dernière. C’est en mars 1516 que la République de Venise accepte la présence des Juifs dans la ville, à la condition qu’ils habitent dans un quartier dont les accès seront condamnés le soir venu : le premier ghetto, dans le quartier de Canareggio, où se trouvaient des fonderies.
Ghetto en vénitien pouvant évoquer les « jets » qui s’échappaient des ateliers, ou le lieu où l’on jetait les résidus de fonderies.

*Times of Israel Français 07.06.17

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Altrove/Elsewhere

'La Festa della Repubblica'

By Daniel Leisawitz*

On Friday, June 2, Italy celebrated the Festa della Repubblica – the annual commemoration of the founding of the Republic of Italy. After the fall of the Fascist dictatorship and the end of the Second World War, Italy was faced with the choice of which form of government the state should adopt. On June 2-3, 1946, a national referendum was held in which Italians were given the choice of either retaining the Savoy monarchy, or founding a parliamentary republic. The results were closer than we might think, with 54.3% of voters favoring the republic.

*Daniel Leisawitz is the Director of the Italian Studies Program at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA). The artwork is by Abraham Cresques a 14th-century Jewish Spanish cartographer.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Many Things Unsaid

Guido Vitale

“If I live to be one hundred, there will still be so many things unsaid” (Kirk Douglas to his wife, Anne, 1958 - “Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood”)

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Libya’s Jews: A Forgotten Consequence of 1967

By David Harris*

Fifty years ago this month, the world was transfixed by the war raging between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
The war was triggered by blood-curdling threats from Cairo and Damascus to annihilate the Jewish state, troop mobilization toward Israeli borders, and Arab calls on the UN to remove peacekeeping troops in the Sinai, who were acting as a buffer against conflict. But beyond the gaze of the international news media, another campaign was ruthlessly being waged in 1967: to drive an already diminished Jewish community from its historic home in Libya.

*David Harris is the CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC). The article was published in The Algemeiner on June 11, 2017.

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