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October 29, 2018 - Cheshwan 20, 5779

AFTER THE EVENTS IN PITTSBURGH

Noemi Di Segni (UCEI): “We All Stand Together against Hatred”

Following the tragic events in Pittsburgh, the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni sent the following message to the leaders of Tree of Life Synagogue:

Dear Mr. Joel Don Goldstein, Dear Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers, dear friends, on behalf of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities I would like to express our deepest condolences and our most sincere closeness to all the members of the congregation.
The level of hatred to the Jewish people, of millennia, centuries and decades has never paused and yesterday has entered a place of holiness and prayers. This horrible act, the most terrible in the history of Jewish presence in the United States, calls upon all of us to stay together and continue in any educational engagement that we are perpetuating every day, convinced that all voices need to be strong and loud in condemning these actions, any radicalization, and the growing of white Suprematism, to be fought together with all civil and political forces. We need to say the opposite: All Jewish people need to live!!
We mourn all those who found their premature death, praying for the families and the healing of the wounded ones.
Shalom from Italy, we are all with you.

AFTER THE EVENTS IN PITTSBURGH

De Bernardin (IHRA): “We Call on the International Community to Speak Out”

Following the tragic events in Pittsburgh, Ambassador Sandro De Bernardin, Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), made the following statement:

“It was with great shock that I learned of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on 27 October.
As the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and in the name of all 31 Member Countries, I express sincere condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the survivors, and the whole Jewish community in Pittsburgh.
We condemn this anti-Semitic hate crime and call on the international community and all political, social and religious leaders on the national and local level to speak out against hate speech, to ensure the security of all vulnerable communities, and to support social and educational efforts to address all forms of antisemitism.”

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Survivor and Senator for Life Segre Introduces a Bill for a Committee against Intolerance

By Adam Smulevich

"I was a victim of hatred of fascist Italy. I feel that after all these years, a tide of racism and intolerance is growing again, which must be stopped in any way: today a Parliamentary committee for this purpose is necessary more than ever”. 88 year old Holocaust survivor and senator for life, Liliana Segre presented a bill to establish a “Parliamentary committee to monitor and formulate policies about the phenomena of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism,” last week. The initiative has been felt as urgent.
"Our current reality presents us with a daily list of disgraceful acts. We must work against the fascistization of common sense that is just a step above the indifference that 80 years ago brought shame to fascist Italy," she said at a press conference held at the Senate, remembering the ignominity of the Racial Laws promulgated in 1938, and their terrible consequences.

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Last Survivor of the October 16 Nazi Raid
in Rome Has Passed Away

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Lello Di Segni, the last survivor of the Nazi raid of Rome’s ghetto that took place on October 16, 1943, passed away at the age of 91 last Friday. As the result of the raid, over a 1,000 Roman Jews were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Just sixteen returned.
The death of Di Segni, who has been remembered among others by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, has prompted heartfelt condolences from many public figures. His death marks the end of an era – some noticed. The memory of October 16, the darkest page of the Shoah in Italy, now lies exclusively with the new generations.

Noticias

1938, la exposición en el Quirinale

Pagine Ebraiche staff

Impulsada por el presidente de la República italiana Sergio Mattarella, la exposición "1938: la humanidad denegada - De las leyes raciales italianas a Auschwitz" se inaugurará esta tarde en el Quirinale en presencia del Jefe del Estado.
Se trata de un proyecto dedicado especialmente a los jóvenes, ha explicado su portavoz Giovanni Grasso durante la rueda de prensa previa al evento en las salas del Quirinale, en la que ha participado junto con el otro curador, Paco Lanciano, diseñador de la exposición, y con el presidente de la Fundación Memorial de la Shoah de Milán, Roberto Jarach.
Todo esto ha sido posible gracias a la interacción y a la orientación hacia las nuevas formas de comunicación que caracteriza esta pequeña pero significativa exhibición, impulsada por el Ministerio de Educación, Universidades e Investigación y el Memorial de Milán para conmemorar los ochenta años de la entrada en vigor de las Leyes raciales fascistas.

Traducido por Arianna Mercuriali, 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.

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bechol lashon - Français

Gestes

Pierpaolo Punturello*

Il est très difficile d’accepter l’idée que notre guide, notre maître Moshe ne soit pas entré en Terre promise pour avoir frappé un rocher avec son bâton. Et pourtant, toute sa faute repose dans ce geste : colère, rancune, occasion manquée d’éduquer le peuple et de sanctifier le nom de Dieu.
Certains gestes, bien que petits, marquent pour toujours notre être, même sans le vou-loir. Et c’est dans ces petits gestes quotidiens que se trouve la différence de ce que l’on est.

*Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, rabbin. Traduction de Beatrice Bandini, étudiante de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et In-terprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaire auprès du journal de l’Union des Com-munautés Juives Italiennes.

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double life

Weapons

By Daniela Fubini*

When I did my pilot in Israel in the summer of 2006, and the country was at war with Lebanon, I remember that I felt a bit uncomfortable when I was sitting on a bus and across me or at my side I had a cold and shiny barrel of rifle, usually owned by a sleepy youngster - maximum age: 25. No, actually the IDF owned the rifle or whatever other thing that can spit fire and kill, but that didn't matter too much. My concern was to try and keep my body outside of the line of fire: you never know.
There were soldiers everywhere, always in full uniform, travelling in any direction and always with a weapon on them. All that display of weapons was part of being at war naturally, and I remember thinking that in my almost four years in America, possibly the heaviest armed country on the planet, I had not once seen a weapon (besides on police officers and similar, naturally).

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Israel, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.

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ITALICS

A darker story

The police report said that "the terrified child, Emma Calò, aged 6, clung, weeping, to the clothes of the concierge...M r and Mrs Berna begged the official to desist from his intentions, but he was adamant." Told that this heart-wrenching scene took place in Rome in 1944, most Italians could confidently guess the background: the official would have been a Nazi engaged in the round-up of Jews that followed Italy's withdrawal from the second world war, when the Italians' German allies became their occupiers. As for the Bernas, their compassionate behaviour typified the Italian nation, which had been seduced by fascism but was never anti-Semitic. The official, however, was not German, but Italian. And, as Simon Levis Sullam's vigorously revisionist history makes clear. while many Italians stood up for the Jews, many did not. Some looked away, and some took an active, even enthusiastic, part in the persecution and removal of the 6,746 Jews sent from mainland Italy to German extermination camps. This was particularly true in the Italian Social Republic (Rs1), the fascist-run state in the north. To ingratiate themselves with the victors after the war, Italian bigwigs exalted the role of the Jews' defenders while minimising that of their persecutors. Hampered though it is by the disappearance of much of the documentary evidence, Mr Levis Sullam's short book sets out to give the latter group their sinister due.

*The article was published in The Economist, on October 27, 2018.

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