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October 28, 2019 - Tishri 29, 5780

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Rome to name a street after rav Elio Toaff

By Adam Smulevich

A street in the Jewish neighborhood of Rome, in front of the Great Synagogue, will soon be named after rav Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of the city for half a century.
The unforgettable leader was capable of giving a direction to the Jewish Community after the immediate post-war period. He was later the protagonist of Pope Wojtyla's historic visit to the synagogue of 1986, which marked a new beginning in the relations between Jews and Christians.

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'Jewish ritual circumcision, an unquestionable religious right'

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Jewish ritual circumcision is not and will never be questioned. It is in fact a fundamental religious right, regulated by a clear and solid-based framework.
This emerged during the hearing at the Chamber of Deputies on the initiative of the Parliamentary Committee on Childhood and Youth, presided by MP Licia Ronzulli.
Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, and Riccardo Di Segni, Rome’s Chief Rabbi, attended and spoke at the meeting, while Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, president of the Islamic Religious Community, was called to represent Italian Muslims.
The hearing was convened with respect to the examination of Act No 216, “on the issues related to ritual circumcision on minors,” which was submitted in the last few months.

Translated by Sara Facelli and revised by Claudia Azzalini, students at the Advanced School 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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'October 16: Rome does not forget'

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The solemn commemoration of the victims of the Nazi raid of 16 October 1943 began at dawn, with rav Alberto Funaro playing the shofar.
This event represents a big wound for the city of Rome, and every year, commemorations and meetings are dedicated to it starting early in the morning.
The official moment of the laying of the wreaths took place at 8:30 at the Great Synagogue of Rome: one from the city administration and the Region, and one from UCEI (Union of Italian Jewish Communities) and the Jewish community of Rome.
During the ceremony, the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi said: “Today we remember October 16, 1943, the raid of the Ghetto of Rome and the deportation of the Jews of Rome. That day inflicted a wound to our city and to the Jewish community. The city does not forget the tragedy of the Shoah, because without remembrance there is no future.”

Translated by Sara Volpe, 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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Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*

Die erste Zutat ist soziales Unbehagen. Sachsen ist ein verwickeltes Land. Der lange Integrationsprozess des ehemaligen Ostdeutschlands ins blühende Westdeutschland ist hier noch nicht zu Ende.
Die zweite Zutat ist die verbale Gewalt, die in den letzten Jahren in eine von den sozialen Netzwerken unterstützte Politik eingebrochen ist. Diese Art von Politik wird aber von manchen rücksichtslosen Politikern ausgenützt, die überhaupt keine humana pietas haben.
Die dritte Zutat ist die Wiederentdeckung der Nazi-Symbolen und der Naziparolen, die in der nicht allzu fernen Vergangenheit zu einer konkreten politischen Realität wurden.

*Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Direktor der CDEC Stiftung. Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, und Revision von Anna Zanette, beide Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Homeland

By David Bidussa*

More or less 79 years later, once again in Dunkerque, Britain and Europe discover what the last resort is.
Now, unlike June 1940, there has been no "homeland" on the horizon, ready to bring the last survivors to safety.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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Spain offers citizenship to Sephardic Jews

By New Europe staff*

Over 500 years after their descendants were expelled from Spain in 1492, more than 132,000 Jews have applied for Spanish nationality under a limited-term offer that expired in early October
The Spanish parliament passed a law in October 2015 that sought to address a what it called a “historic mistake” by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who in 1492 ordered Spain’s centuries-old Jewish community to either convert to Catholicism, be burned at the stake for heresy, or be permanently deported from Spain.
Historians believe there were at least 200,000 Jews living in Spain at the time, who today are known as Sephardim — the Hebrew term for Jews of Spanish origin. In the decades and centuries before Isabella and Ferdinand’s decree, Spain’s Jewish community was one of the largest in the world. Jews had lived on the Iberian Peninsula for more than 1,700 years, producing philosophers, poets, diplomats, mathematicians, physicians, scholars, translators, and merchants. Their numbers had diminished due to a series of massacres and mass conversions in the decades leading up to their eventual expulsion at the hands of the infamous Spanish Inquisition.

*The article was published on October 21, 2019.

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