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February 26, 2018 - Adar 11, 5778

Sports

Five Cycling Champions on the Israeli Roads

By Adam Smulevich

Five great former champions are cycling Israeli roads on the itinerary of the upcoming Giro d’Italia which will start off from Jerusalem on May 4, 2018.
Alessandro Ballan, Maurizio Fondriest, Paolo Savoldelli, Gibo Simoni and Andrea Tafi have collected many victories in their careers whether in the Giro or at the World Championships or other very important competitions. Now they are on a very special journey for another race.

culture

"Portrait of an Old Rabbi" in the Spotlight
at Uffizi

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“Portrait of an Old Rabbi”, a masterpiece by Rembrandt, has been placed at the center of the new branch of the world famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
“It is among the most relevant pieces of our museum and most definitely is in the top 20. Finally it has received the importance that it deserves,” commented the Uffizi director, Eike Schmidt.
The painting by the Dutch artist is featured in the new permanent exhibit devoted to 16th century art and to the Italian artist Caravaggio, in the penultimate of the eight rooms.

culture

Musical Festival Resurrects Works by Jewish Composers Murdered in the Holocaust

By Gretchen Rachel Hammond*

In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people.
Far below him, thousands had packed into the square. As he delivered a screaming proclamation, his outstretched arm fell back across his body while, head raised high, Mussolini drank in a deafening roar of approval.
Two months earlier, a manifesto had been published which declared that “Jews do not belong to the Italian race. Generally speaking, no trace is left of those Semites that, over the centuries, have landed on the scared soil of our fatherland."

*This article was published in the Tablet Magazine on January 31, 2018.

bechol lashon - Español

Preocupaciones

David Bidussa*

En la mirada dentro de nosotros que comenzó con la escena global de Macerata (desde el 29 de enero en adelante, incluyendo ayer), más que “el racismo que hay en nosotros”, me preocupan:
1) la memoria unilateral; 2) la irrelevancia dada a la muerte violenta de los otros; y 3) la baja tasa de capacidad de desobediencia que caracteriza nuestros tiempos. O sea, la ausencia de voluntad de salirse del sistema para intentar “mover el sentido común”.

*David Bidussa es historiador social de las ideas. Traducción de Ilaria Vozza, estudiante de la Escuela Superior para Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Trieste, de prácticas en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas.

Leia mas

pilpul

My Facebook Feed and I

By Susanna Calimani*

Last week I opened Facebook, it was already the third time that day. I check my newsfeed multiple times a day out of boredom: in the metro, in the elevator, while waiting for colleagues in the canteen. The pictures of a wedding, the first birthday of a friend’s kid, the 10km run of that friend training for a marathon, the political barometer for the coming Italian elections, a sunset from a Mexican beach, a snowy mountain, random posts, “A national concours has been postponed due to a Jewish holiday. Hurray for the lay state.”
Suddenly my sensor for “non Jews who make comments about Jews and related issues” started beeping.

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

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italics

Stumbling Stone Holocaust Memorial
Stolen In Northwest Italy

By JTA*

Italian police are investigating the theft of a “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorial to an Auschwitz victim.
The memorial, a gold-colored cobblestone-sized monument embedded in sidewalk, was stolen last week just a month after it was placed in Collegno, a suburb of Turin in northwest Italy.
Collegno Mayor Francesco Casciano called the theft a “deplorable act that goes beyond vandalism” as it took place at “a time when a resurgence of neofascism” threatens democratic society.
The stumbling stone commemorated Massimo De Benedetti, who was deported from Collegno and killed in Auschwitz in October 1944.

*This article was published in The Forward on February 21, 2018.

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