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December 16, 2019 - Kislev 17, 5780

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Jewish Leaders Gather for the annual general convention of Italian Jewry

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The annual general convention of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) took place in Rome on Sunday.
Community presidents, board members, rabbis, and employees from the 21 Jewish communities in the Italian peninsula gathered to delve into the theme chosen for this year: Jewish education from age 0 to 120.
UCEI President Noemi Di Segni opened the meeting, highlighting how education has an impact on our entire lives.

NEWS

An unforgettable rally in Milan: “No more hatred, let us talk about love”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

“We are here to talk about love. Hatred is for ‘keyboard warriors’ only.” Once again, senator for life Liliana Segre delivered a clear message: hatred is a waste of time; the moment has come to turn over a new leaf.
She delivered her speech in Piazza della Scala last week, in Milan, her hometown, where more than 600 mayors from all around Italy gathered to show their support and participate in the demonstration against any form of hatred, antisemitism, racism and discrimination.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised 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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Four international organizations launch
a new Euro-Med agenda

By Enrico Molinaro

In view of the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Declaration (which established the Union for the Mediterranean, editor’s note), the leaders of four international organizations, Amb. Miguel Angel Moratinos (High Representative, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations-UNAoC), Amb. Nasser Kamel (Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean-UfM), Dr. Nabil Al-Sharif (Executive Director, Anna Lindh Foundation-ALF), and Prof. Angelo Riccaboni (President, PRIMA Foundation), for the first time together, launched a new joint positive agenda, vision and action plan, giving a fresh momentum to the multilateral cooperation within the common Euro-Med ecosystem.
The inter-institutional Seminar on the Revitalization of the Euro-Med Cooperation, a side-event of the fifth edition of the Rome Med-Dialogues, held in Rome on December 6, 2019 was a follow-up to the successful bilateral meeting between Amb. Kamel and Dr. Al-Sharif organized by RIDE-APS in Palermo on May 15, 2019, in close cooperation with the Italian MoFA’s Euro-Med coordinator.

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Piero Terracina, entre Mémoire et histoire

Anna Foa*

Je ne sais pas quoi dire. Je n’ai envie de parler de rien d’autre que de la mort de Piero Terracina, mais je vois qu’on a tout dit à ce sujet dans ces dernières heures. Je voudrais donc évoquer un épisode qui a eu lieu il y a beaucoup d’années lors de la journée du Souvenir dans une école sarde qu’on a visitée ensemble. On avait demandé à Piero de parler aux élèves plus âgés ainsi qu’aux enfants de 8-10 ans. Il avait peur de les choquer avec ses mémoires du camp de concentration et de trop s’émouvoir en parlant avec de petits enfants.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Sara Facelli et révisé par Mattia Stefani, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaires au journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Oblivion

By David Bidussa*

In next week’s Torah portion, we will read this verse: “The chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him." [Gen. 40.23].
Was it not enough to say that he forgot him? Why is it also written that he "did not remember him"?
Because oblivion is never only the effect of a natural process ("he forgot"), but also of a voluntary act ("he did not remember").
This is true also for Remembrance: it is not only about what we do not forget, but also about what we decide to remember."

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Italian composer giving new life to music
lost during the Holocaust

By CBS staff*

During the Holocaust, an entire generation of talented musicians, composers and virtuosos died, but their musical legacy lives on thanks largely to the extraordinary efforts of Francesco Lotoro. An Italian composer and pianist who converted to Judaism, Lotoro is on a mission or "mitzvah" – a Jewish duty – to recover, catalog and perform music written in captivity, including music written secretly by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.

*The article was published in CBSnews on December 11, 2019.

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