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May 27, 2019 - Iyar 22, 5779

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EU elections, nationalist parties gain support but do not win a majority of seats

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“Populist tide rises but fails to flood EU,” read a headline in the pan European online newspaper Politico.eu on Monday.
Indeed, the day after the European elections, a feeling of relief has been expressed by all those who believe in the European Union project all over Europe: even though anti-European parties have gained support across the continent, their numbers are far from enough to form a majority.
“We are far away from the dreaded black wave. We are far away from the mass victory of the unrestrained nationalism,” wrote French author and intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy in an op-ed published by the Italian daily La Stampa on Monday.

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President Mattarella at the Shoah Memorial: “Remembrance is the basis for the future”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

"The depths of evil are unimaginable and our duty to Remembrance is the basis for the future and for a better living.” This was the message launched by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella after visiting the Shoah Memorial in Milan together with Senator for life and witness of the Shoah Liliana Segre.
Segre was deported to Auschwitz from this very place on the 30th of January 1944, when she was only 13 years old.
“No matter how many books we read or how much footage we watch, such moments are moving and striking”, stated the Italian Head of State, when Liliana Segre showed him the deportation rails and explained the symbolic meaning of the Memorial today.

Translated by Simone Simonazzi and edited by Mattia Stefani, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

culture

Minister Bussetti: “We are extremely proud
of the Italian translation of the Talmud”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“The past is always present within us and we must keep reliving it. We must keep interpreting it, in accordance with the teachings of Judaism and of the Babylonian Talmud,” Marco Bussetti, the Italian Minister of Education, said during the presentation of the Talmud Translation Project at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan last week.
The project was set up by a memorandum of understanding between the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Italian Ministry of Education, the National Research Council (CNR), the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and the Italian Rabbinical College.

Translated by Simone Simonazzi, and edited by Sara Facelli, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Schools unite for supporting Remembrance

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Upon the joint initiative of the German Embassy in Italy and the Italian association Arte in Memoria, pupils of several schools in Rome have been engaged in the cleaning of 288 Stolpersteine which have been installed around the city since 2010.
Spolverare la Memoria (Dusting memory) is the title of this initiative which, during the World Day for Cultural Diversity, has gathered students of Deutsche Schule Rom, Liceo Renzo Levi, Liceo Statale Eugenio Montale, IIS Luigi Einaudi, IISS Roberto Rossellini, Liceo Ginnasio E.Q. Visconti, Liceo Artistico Ripetta, IIS Leonardo da Vinci Maccarese-Fiumicino, Liceo Aristofane and of the American Academy.

Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Élections européennes:
le Crif appelle à une mobilisation citoyenne

Crif staff*

À l'occasion des élections européennes, le dimanche 26 mai prochain, le Crif appelle à une mobilisation citoyenne, et invite à voter pour les listes qui défendent les valeurs démocratiques et les droits fondamentaux.
L'antisémitisme en hausse dans le monde et notamment en Europe (les attaques contre des juifs ont augmenté de 73%) pourrait se traduire par l'élection de représentants des partis nationalistes et populistes au Parlement européen. Face à la possible montée des extrêmes aux élections européennes, les juifs d'Europe sont inquiets.

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Anxieties

By David Bidussa*

Ian Fleming is back in the bookstores with all his 007 work. In the past I would have said “Hooray! Heroes never pass!” Today, I feel the atmosphere is different and the protagonist is conspiracy and the strength of the Spectre. Fleming’s books have not changed. It is the new anxieties of the readers that makes a difference.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Over 1,000 fires extinguished in Israel

By Marcy Oster*

The more than one thousand fires which led to the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes have been extinguished, Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Services announced.
The fires, aided by dry and hot weather conditions, burned from Thursday until Saturday night.
Among the causes of the fires were faults in electrical cables, embers from Lag B’Omer bonfires, arson and incendiary balloons launched from Gaza at southern Israel, according to the agency.
The fires burned down nearly 2,000 acres of forests, with the worst damage in the Ben Shemen Forest in central Israel.
At least 50 houses burned down from the fires in central Israel, including 40 homes in Mevo Modi’im, founded by the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, amounting to most of the village, as well as 10 homes in Kibbutz Harel.
More than 1,000 firefighters battled the blazes throughout the country, as did Israel’s 12 firefighting planes from five other countries identified as Egypt, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy. Four Palestinian firefighting companies also assisted.

*This article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on May 27, 2019.

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