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December 24, 2018 - Kevet 16, 5779

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The 140 Years Of Vercelli Synagogue

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

“The new synagogue we built with such great success has been a clear sign of the strong connection between religion and freedom.”
In 1878 Ezechia Norzi stated those words. He was the secretary of the Vercelli Jewish community, also known as “Jewish University” back then. After 140 years since the building of the synagogue bound to welcome a community involving hundreds of individuals, a few dozen people gathered to celebrate the synagogue’s construction anniversary. It was a token of recognition for those who were “proud to be part of the glorious Italian history at last” during those years. Several representatives of the civil, religious and military institutions attended the ceremony as well.
The president of the community, Rossella Bottini Treves, greeted the public. The recovery of the building and many of its valuable decorations are due to her, as well as the rebirth of the community. And although its small numbers, the community conveys a strong sense of vitality. Rav Elia Richetti, the community rabbi, opened the ceremony playing an ancient shofar that came from the Jewish community of Biella, now embedded in the section of Vercelli. He took the shofar from one of the display cases located in the museum on the women’s balcony.

*Translated by Simone Simonazzi, 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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A Carabinieri Delegation Visited
the Shoah Memorial in Milan

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

A group of the Italian police officers (Carabinieri) visited the Shoah Memorial of Milan last week. The Memorial is located in the warehouses in the city’s train station. From here Jews and other deportees were forced to board the trains to the death camps so that they could be hidden from the rest of the population.
Guiding the delegation of the Carabinieri was senator for life Liliana Segre. Segre, 88, who was on one of those trains. From there she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of 14.

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Italian National Institute Pays Tribute
to Jewish Manager

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro e le malattie professionali or INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Workplace Accidents and Occupational Diseases) paid tribute to Also Fuà, a manager who was dismissed after the promulgation of anti-Jewish Laws in 1938.
After many decades, Fuà will be remembered with a commemorative plaque at the entrance of the INAIL Tower.
“It was a long process that has finally come to a conclusion. It is an important message of remembrance,” commented INAIL president Massimo De Felice.
“In 1880 Luigi Luzzatti who was Jewish had the intuition to establish the INAIL. In 1932, Guido Zevi, a Jewish engineer, was given the task of rebuilding the palace after a demolition. In 1938, Aldo Fuà, an INAIL Jewish manager was forced out of his position after the anti-Jewish Laws. In 2018 there is a plaque to commemorate him. I owed it to my grandfather,” commented Fuà’s grandson Dario Coen.

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Kultur

David Bidussa*

Wir leben in einer besessenen Welt. Und wir wissen es. Es käme für niemanden unerwartet, wenn der Wahnsinn eines Tages plötzlich ausbräche in einer Raserei, aus der diese arme europäische Menschheit zurücksänke, stumpf und irr, indes die Motoren noch surren und die Fahnen noch flattern, der Geist aber ist entwichen“.
Mit diesen Worten beginnt „Im Schatten von morgen. Eine Diagnose des kulturellen Leidens unserer Zeit“, ein im Jahr 1935 veröffentlichtes Buch von Johan Huizinga.
Von Zeit zu Zeit muss man es wieder lesen, nicht nur um eine Vorstellung davon zu bekommen, wie es begann, sondern auch, wie es enden könnte.

*David Bidussa, Sozialhistoriker der Ideen.
Übersetzung von Anna Zanette mit der Hilfe von Giulia Schincariol, Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Triest und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Service

By Daniela Fubini*

After coming back from four years in the United States, aka the most service-oriented place on earth, I was once with my dad in a restaurant and the waitress did a terrible job. She was not polite nor kind, made mistakes with our orders and was overall not professional. I got really upset and I wanted to call the manager, when my father said hold on, how do you know that this will not be the last straw and your complain will not result in her being fired? Do you want to be responsible for this lady losing her parnasa?This happened many years ago but I remember it as one of the big lessons in my life. After that, when I made my Aliyah and I had to learn how different - to say the least - is the very concept of service in Israel, my immune system was ready for the challenge, and when I see fellow new immigrants who struggle in their absorption because of their higher standards I feel for them.

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

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My Holiday Recipe: Sweet Ricotta Cheese Latkes Inspired by Hanukkah

My holiday recipe: Sweet ricotta cheese latkes inspired by Hanukkah
This may be cheating, since Hanukkah came and went early this year, wrapping up on Dec. 10, but that doesn't mean it's too late to whip up a batch of ricotta cheese latkes.
Kat Romanow came across this recipe while doing research for a Hanukkah party a few years ago.
"There was this lesser known tradition around Hanukkah of eating dairy foods to commemorate the story of Judith killing Holofernes," she explained.
In the story, the heroine Judith saves her town from Assyrian invaders with some quick-thinking and a nice cheese plate.
"Judith saved the town and all the Jews in it by feeding him lots of salty cheese, and he drank lots of wine because he was so thirsty. And he passed out and she cut off his head," said Romanow.
Consider this a cautionary tale against over-imbibing this holiday season.
Romanow says this story led her to discover that ricotta cheese latkes were the first kind of latkes made by Jewish people in Italy, so she decided to try them out.

*The article was published in CBC on December 22, 2018.

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