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April 29, 2019 - Nisan 24, 5779

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Italy Marks Liberation Day

By Pagine Ebraiche

Rallies and marches were held all over Italy to celebrate the liberation from the Nazi-Fascist regime on April 25, 1945 last Thursday.
In many cities, including at the national rally in Milan and Rome, groups of people joined the events under the banners of the Jewish brigade, the British Army formation of Jewish recruited in the Mandated Palestine.
In Rome, many representatives of Italian authorities joined the event organized at the Balbo Street synagogue, where the Jewish Brigade headquartered after the Liberation of Rome.

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Fake Twitter Account of Holocaust Survivor Gets Disconnected

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A fake Twitter account of Italian Holocaust Survivor and Senator for Life Liliana Segre went offline last week.
For months, the account had been pretending to be an official communication channel of the senator, who since her appointment in 2018 has become a public voice against intolerance, hatred and indifference.
Moreover, several prominent media outlets, including the Italian press agency Ansa, and the daily La Repubblica, shared the content of these profiles in their articles.

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The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah Featured in the New York Times

By Rossella Tercatin*

The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara was featured in a long article in New York Times on Wednesday.
“The history of Jewish life in Italy might seem like one long saga of suffering and trauma: slavery by the Romans; the Inquisition and persecution by the Church; forced segregation to cramped neighborhoods in the Middle Ages. The first of many ghettos was established in Venice in 1516. The 20th century witnessed the rise of fascism, anti-Semitic racial laws and the Holocaust, when nearly 7,700 Jews out of a total population of 44,500 were killed. However, there is another part to the Italian Jewish story, one of acceptance, integration and even appreciation throughout the long arc of civilization on the peninsula,” wrote the author of the piece Harry D. Wall.

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Mucho más que un asilo político

Michael Ascoli*

Los sudaneses de fiesta por las calles de Tel Aviv, sus bailes y sus espontáneas ganas de volver pronto a casa demuestran mejor que cualquier otra teoría que han llegado a Israel a la fuerza. No han ido allí a robarle el trabajo a nadie, es más, nunca han tenido la intención de robar.
Las especulaciones y las polémicas estériles que desde hace años atañen a Israel, chocan con la realidad de los hechos. Solo cabe esperar que Sudán esté realmente dispuesto a emprender un camino democrático.

*Michael Ascoli, rabino. 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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Charoset or Passover dilemmas

By Daniela Fubini*

In the local supermarket, three days before Pesach, among a frenzy crowd there are three women: an Israeli, a French and an Italian. And this is not the beginning of a joke, it is my 72-hours-to-matzah moment, this year. So the setting first of all: a quite large but not American-size large supermarket of a medium brand; not the cheapest and not the most expensive. Many shelves and entire aisles of non-Pesach products are already wrapped in white plastic and blocked at both entrances by pallets and other massive objects that can be found in supermarkets, like stands emptied and used as temporary walls.

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

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Women of the Ancient Near East

By Carly Silver*

What survives in the archaeological record never ceases to be a marvel. There are a few unique references to Roman women converting to Judaism—inasmuch as one can term that religion as a singular entity in antiquity—in the first century C.E. As various religions filtered throughout the Mediterranean, people began following different gods, ranging from the worship of Isis to the that of the Jewish God.
In 1592, a Flemish tourist trekking through Italy copied the unusual inscriptions he came across in the Jewish catacombs of Rome. He jotted down what he saw on the sarcophagus of one Beturia Paulina (alternatively recorded as Veturia or Beturia Paulla).
Based on her moniker, the tomb’s inhabitant likely grew up worshiping the gods of the Roman Empire. Her epitaph was written in Greek transliterated into Latin. Eventually, Beturia converted before her death at the age of 86 years and six months, eventually buried in the Jewish catacombs in Rome. Thus, we can presume she lived near or around Rome and its environs during her life.

*Carly Silver is a public historian, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. The article was published in Bible History Daily on April 17, 2019.

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