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December 30, 2019 - Tevet 2, 5780

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Prominent Italian writer sparks outrage
with anti-Old Testament column

By Adam Smulevich

On Christmas eve, a piece full of prejudice and stereotypes about the Old Testament appeared in the most important Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera. The column carried the byline Dacia Maraini, 83 years, a renowned writer and a permanent columnist at the newspaper.
Maraini spoke of Judaism as a "severe and vindictive" religion, compared to Christianity which according to the writer introduced, "the concept of forgiveness, respect for women, the refusal of slavery and war" for the first time in monotheism.

NEWS

Religious communities gather in solidarity
with homeless in Milan

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

An event for reflection between different religious communities in Milan in solidarity with the city’s homeless took place last week before the Shoah Memorial. The City Angels of Milan, an organization known in the city for its commitment to those in need which has been collaborating with the local Jewish community for years organized the occasion.
Franco Buzzi, prefect of the Ambrosian Library, Imam Khaled Elhediny, Gadi Schoenheit, member of the Board of the Jewish Community, the Christian Orthodox priest Father Emmanuel Carbonaru, the evangelical pastor Marcel Moro and the Tibetan Buddhist monk Cesare Milani attended the meeting between representatives of different religions, institutions and citizens.

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A new president for the Union
of Young Jews of Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Simone Santoro, 24, from Turin, is the new president of the Union of Young Jews of Italy. The newly elected 2020 Council appointed him unanimously.
Santoro is a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in engineering. In the past he studied in Barcelona.
After his appointment, he said that he intended to set a year of work dedicated to dialogue, “the art that induces people to discover how much they have in common".

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Italie : la ville de Schio rejette l’idée d’un mémorial de la Shoah

TOI staff*

Le projet consistait à installer à Schio, ville de 40 000 habitants dans le nord de l’Italie, 14 « Stolpersteine », des pierres commémoratives, comme on en trouve partout en Europe, en mémoire aux Juifs de la ville déportés et tués durant la Shoah. Il a finalement été rejeté par le conseil municipal de la ville, a rapporté le journal italien Corriere della Sera.
Selon les conseillers municipaux de centre-droit opposés au projet, celui-ci risquait de « favoriser la haine et les divisions».

*Times of Israel Français, 17.12.2019.

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Amoz Oz and the Fanatic

By David Bidussa*

“The fanatic is a walking exclamation mark. The fight against fanaticism would do well not to reply with an opposite exclamation mark. Fighting fanaticism does not mean annihilating all fanatics but, perhaps, putting in place a cautious therapy on the little fanatic who more or less hides inside the soul of most of us, and also laughing a little behind our exclamation marks ... ".
(Amos Oz, "Dear fanatics"). A year later we miss your voice a lot, Amos Oz. Luckily, we at least have his books."

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii?

By Julie Masis*

POMPEII, Italy — In the gift shop at the Pompeii archaeological site, tourists might notice a book entitled, “The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix.”
Dedicated “to the Jewish victims of the eruption of 79 CE,” it claims that a Jewish author was actually the first to record the destruction of the ancient Roman city just a year after the disaster. Or, more accurately, that we owe the oldest written record of the eruption of Vesuvius to an ancient Jewish author.
The book, authored by Rabbi Isidoro Kahn from Naples and archaeologist Carlo Giordano, is the only one ever written about the Jews of Pompeii. It was first published in Italian more than 40 years ago, and by now both of the authors have died.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel on December 27, 2019.

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