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May 20, 2019 - Iyar 15, 5779

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UCEI President: “ON BDS, Italy and the EU should follow Germany’s example”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities has expressed appreciation for the decision of the German Parliament to pass a law which defines the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel as anti-Semitic and has invited the Italian Parliament to follow suit.
“In approving a bill that defines the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel as clearly anti-Semitic the Bundestag has sent an important message. In this way, the BDS movement will not be able to receive any public funding or sponsorship,” Di Segni said in a statement on Sunday.

culture

David Grossman at the Jewish Book Festival
in Ferrara

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Israeli author David Grossman attended the Jewish Book Festival that took place in Ferrara on Sunday.
The Festival celebrated its tenth edition with many events hosted at the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) and in other venues around the city.
“The Festival is a central event for us,” explained MEIS President Dario Disegni.

events

Jews and Catholics, a fruitful dialogue

By Adam Smulevich

“Hine ma tov uma na’im, Shevet achim gam yachad”. “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity”: These well-known verses from Psalm 133 – in which brotherhood is compared to the holy anointing oil and to the divine dew falling on the mountains of Israel and on Mount Zion – were used by Rabbi Daniel Polish to start off his speech. In the past few days, as head of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Dialogue, he has debated in Rome with representatives of the Vatican, Jewish leaders and communication experts on the occasion of the 24th International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee meeting in Rome.

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Una polémica inapropiada

Anna Foa*

Me parece muy poco apropiada la polémica sobre la libertad de pensamiento que se ha desatado después de que se excluyera del Salón del Libro a la editorial Altaforte. Francesco Polacchi, fundador de Altaforte, con sus antecedentes penales, tiene un perfil que se parece más al de un golpeador fascista que al de un editor, es decir a alguien que se dedica a idear y crear libros. Irrupciones a Palazzo Marino, agresiones organizadas, manifestaciones violentas. Sus declaraciones a favor del fascismo no son la confesión de una fe política personal, sino una incitación al odio y, en el marco del movimiento de CasaPound, una incitación a la refundación del Partido Fascista, en contra de lo que establece la Constitución.

*Anna Foa, historiadora. 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.

Leia mas

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Culture

By David Bidussa*

Culture is created by words and images more than by ideas and ideologies. Culture is a mirror of images, projects and dreams that we hold within us. Therefore I wonder: What is our vocabulary today? What are the images produced by that vocabulary? Where is it created? Through which experiences? Which changes does it go through? How do words express what we think?

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Israel in contention to host Tour de France

By Simon Griver*

Israeli big events organisers, which helped stage the Giro last year, told a Tel Aviv conference: “The Giro D’Italia will return to Israel in 2022 and we are in advanced negotiations with the Tour de France.”
He added: “The contribution to Israel of large events like the Giro and Eurovision is in making Israel a brand that people like and feel motivated to come back to.”
Benaim said that Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams had donated €28 million to bring the Giro D’Italia to Israel last year. Branded as the “Big Start”, the world’s top cyclists spent the first three days of one of the world’s three biggest cycling races, competing in Israel last May.

*The article was published in The Jewish Chronicle on May 20, 2019.

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