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June 24, 2019 - Sivan 21, 5779

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Incumbent President Ruth Dureghello
Wins Community Elections in Rome

By Adam Smulevich

Incumbent President Ruth Dureghello has been confirmed as leader of the Jewish Community of Rome.
She and her group "Per Israele" (For Israel) scored a clear victory in the community elections held on June 16.
Per Israele received 48,51% of the votes and obtained 14 of the 27 seats available in the new council.
Five other lists ran for elections, for a total of 135 candidates: "Menorah" obtained 15.82% of the preferences, Dor va dor" 14.39%, "Binah is real" 10.69%, "Ebrei per Roma" 6.24%, and "Maghen David" 4.34%.

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Elections held in several Italian communities

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Several Italian Jewish communities have gone to the polls in the past few weeks to elect their boards.
Besides Rome, where incumbent president Ruth Dureghello and her group Per Israele won a substantial majority, elections were also held in the Jewish Community of Milan, the second largest in the country.

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A monument to the Aliyah Bet in La Spezia

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A monument to the Aliyah Bet - the operations to allow Shoah survivors and refugees to reach the land of Israel under the British Mandate between 1945 and 1948 – was inaugurated in the city of La Spezia last week.
Many ships of the Aliyah Bet ships sailed from the port of La Spezia.

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L’héritage moral de Bloch

Anna Foa*

Il y a soixante-quinze ans, le 16 juin 1944, meurt fusillé par les Allemands près de Lyon Marc Bloch, membre de la Résistance et probablement le plus grand historien du XXe siècle. Il avait cinquante-huit ans. David Bidussa, auteur d’un excellent article en sa mémoire publié hier sur Gli stati generali, a consacré son analyse surtout à l’un de ses livres extraordinaires, L’Étrange Défaite, écrit en 1940 s’interrogeant sur la défaite subie par la France. Dans la même année, à cause des lois sur le statut des Juifs du régime de Vichy, il est viré de l’école, mais il y est réadmis pour ses mérites exceptionnels.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiant de l’École supérieure de Langues modernes pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs et stagiaire dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Hatred

By David Bidussa*

Nowadays, hatred is a feeling that does politics. "The cleaning phase has started with Walter Lubcke. But more will come after him. Including you. Your life will come to an end in 2020." This is the letter that Henriette Reker, the independent mayor of Colony received last Friday. I did not read any statement by nationalist of illiberal democracy supporters to distance themselves from or to condemn the content of this letter or to express their solidarity to Henriette Reker. Like other times in history, indifference will be the decisive factor.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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Why did Italian Jews of old marry
before Pesach?

By Kobi Nachshoni*

An ancient scripture discovered in Florence, Italy, uncovered an old Jewish Italian custom: to marry off several men and women in a mass ceremony on the eve before Passover.
The scripture, that is now being put for auction, and the custom it describes, remained a mystery until Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome, made it his mission. But careful investigation recently solved the mystery.
The famous document was a 317-year-old ketubah, a traditional Jewish marriage agreement, and it lead Di Segni to the story behind the ancient custom. The Ketubah, randomly found in the Jewish archive in Rome, was covered in colorful and golden decorations and bared hand-crafted drawings of a bride and a groom wearing fine cloths, alongside lions and decorated horses.
But what caught Di Segni's eye wasn't the unique decoration, but the unusual date of the wedding: April 12, 1702, a day before Passover.

*The article was published in Ynet on June 22, 2019.

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