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October 30, 2017 - Cheshwan 10, 5778

NEWS

Israel Invites Jorge Bergoglio to Launch
the Giro d’Italia in Jerusalem

By Adam Smulevich

At a meeting at the Vatican, Sylvan Adams, the Honorary President of ‘Big Start Israel,’ invited Pope Francis to launch the start of the Giro d’Italia 2018, which will begin in May with the three opening stages in Israel (the first one, in Jerusalem). The news was announced on our website www.moked.it, and was soon picked up by many newspapers raising great interest in public opinion.
As we verified, during the meeting Adams handed the Pope a special letter from Israel’s
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, requesting the pontiff’s public blessing for the race, sending a strong message of peace, dialogue and coexistence across the world.

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Jewish Leader urges Italian Sports Authorities to Fight Anti-Semitism

By Philip Pullella*

Italian sports authorities must do more to root out anti-Semitism in stadiums and apply sanctions against offending fans, the head of the country’s Jewish communities said on Thursday.
She was reacting to an anti-Semitic outburst by Lazio fans, who pasted stickers of Holocaust victim Anne Frank wearing the jersey of their rivals AS Roma at Rome’s Olympic Stadium.
“There is a new way of expressing anti-Semitism and sports is one of them,” Noemi Di Segni told Reuters.
The episode last Sunday was widely condemned and on Wednesday night a passage from Anne Franks’ diary was read out loud at the start of Serie A matches during what was billed as “a moment of reflection”.

*This article was published in Reuters on October 26, 2017.

NEWS

"Revulsion in Italian Soccer
Over Anti-Semitic Taunts"

By Jason Horowitz*

In the more than 70 years since the Nazis discovered Anne Frank’s hiding place and then murdered her in a concentration camp, the Jewish girl’s diary entries — brimming with life and optimism in the face of utter despair — have been read in classrooms, libraries and war zones around the world.
In Italy on Wednesday, her sentences resounded over the loudspeakers of soccer stadiums, a response to the shock and disgust felt by the country’s political, cultural and Jewish leaders after fans of Lazio, one of Rome’s teams, had left stickers in a stadium with the image of Frank wearing the colors of a crosstown rival to mock that team’s supporters. Some Lazio fans have been known to engage in anti-Semitic behavior, and the association with Frank was meant to be taken as an insult.
“This has uncovered a problem that has been building up for a long time,” said Adam Smulevich, author of “Presidents,” a book about the Jewish roots of some Italian soccer teams and an active member of the Italian Jewish community. “But if we concentrate only on this one episode, we fail to see this is a much larger problem than just Lazio. It’s an issue for all of Italian society.”.

*This article was published in The New York Times on October 26, 2017.

bechol lashon - deutsch

Davor, danach, wer
und warum

Anna Segre

Warum ist der Schurke ein Schurke geworden? Weshalb findet sich der Protagonist letztlich in exakt derselben Situation vor, in welcher wir ihn zu Beginn sehen? Wer ist eigentlich dieser Nebencharakter, der in einigen kurzen Szenen auftaucht? Was wird unseren Hauptfiguren 20 Jahre nach Ende der Handlung widerfahren sein? Von Filmen zu Büchern lassen sich Einige die Fortsetzungen, Vorgeschichten, die Handlung aus einem anderen Blinkwinkel, sowie Geschichten in Bezug auf Nebendarsteller und Weiteres entgehen. Dies ist kein neueres Phänomen. Schon Dante verfasste eine bekannte Fortsetzung der Odyssee (ohne diese überhaupt gelesen zu haben); lange Zeit vor ihm variierten bereits Vergil und Ovid das homerische Epos, indem sie Aeneas und die trojanischen Begleiter des Odysseus auf verschiedenste Entkommene von hier und dort, von der Insel des Polyphems oder dem Hause der Kirke, treffen lassen.

Übersetzung von Milena Porsch, Studentin der Universität von Regensburg und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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"We Need Teachers"

By Dario Calimani*

Perhaps it’s the rising age, perhaps the unexpected events of life, but as time passes you have the strange feeling of a growing belief that being a Jew doesn’t just mean that you passively accept a given identity, be it for a coincidence or for your choice. You wonder if, in order to be and feel a Jew, you need no more than owning a library full of Jewish books and reading various Jewish writers, or being proud of Freud and Einstein; or if it’s enough to think about the Shoah every day, or to support Israel and Netanyahu with all your heart. Observing the Kashrut is not so hard as well. It is a passive acceptance of a diet which, after all, doesn’t make you feel so different from a strict vegetarian.
Someone will tell me that the Torah is very clear about what it means to be a Jew: na’asé wenishma’, do first, understand later.

*Dario Calimani is a professor at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Translation by Rachele Ferin, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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First Italian Talmud In 500 Years
Donated To Library Of Congress

By Aiden Pink*

A volume of the first Talmud to be printed in Italy in 500 years has been donated to the Library of Congress.
“Italy is the place where the Talmud was printed for the first time. … It is a very symbolic event that we wanted to share with the wider public,” Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni said on Monday, according to the Religion News Service.
The Talmud was translated from Aramaic into Italian using a new technology called the Traduco system, which uses techniques of computational linguistics.

*This article was published in The Forward on October 24, 2017.

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