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January 6, 2020 - Tevet 9, 5780

NEWS

Kicking racism out of stadiums: UCEI calls
Italian soccer world to action

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, soccer clubs and sports institutions have accepted the invitation of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) for a stronger commitment in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism in Italian stadiums.
On Thursday, January 16, at the headquarters of the UCEI Bibliographic Center, the event “Kicking racism” will send a strong message.
The event was conceived especially for young people. Together with UCEI President Noemi Di Segni, attending the event will be, among others, the Minister of Sports Vincenzo Spadafora, the president of the Italian Football Association Gabriele Gravina, the president of the Italian Football Player Association Damiano Tommasi, the CEO of the Lega Calcio Serie A Luigi De Siervo and the CEO of the National Amateur League, Cosimo Sibilia.

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The Jews in the Renaissance, a conference
in Jerusalem

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A conference exploring the topic of Jews during the Renaissance will be held at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on January 12-15.
Titled, “Imagining the Renaissance / Defining the Jews,” the conference is organized by the National Library of Israel, PRIN 2015 - The Long History of Antisemitism, the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of History University of Maryland Johns Hopkins University, EMODIR - Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism, UNESCO Chair in Religious Pluralism and Peace, and Fondazione Giovanni XXIII per le Scienze Religiose.
It received the support of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, The Lechter Institute for Literary Research - Bar Ilan University, and the Vice President for Research, Bar Ilan University."

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The Jewish Community of Naples will not attend Remembrance event by Municipality

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Jewish Community of Naples announced that it will not be present at the laying of nine stumbling blocks in memory of the members of the Procaccia-Pacifici-Molco families barbarously slaughtered in the Shoah. The decision has been taken due to the fact that the new municipal board member for culture Eleonora de Majo, known for her hateful positions towards Israel, will participate in the initiative.
"We want to reiterate that there are things that pass and others that remain, especially in the intangible memory of the city. Well, initiatives such as that of installing the nine stolpersteine fall into this latter case. Therefore, by their very nature they cannot lend themselves to misunderstandings of any kind, especially if there are values with high and unequivocal meanings at stake, such as the right to exist for the State of Israel," read the letter the community sent to the municipality.

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Synagogues d’avant-guerre

Robert Philpot*

Un organisme européen de premier plan a demandé que des mesures soient prises pour préserver les synagogues juives historiques sur tout le continent après que des recherches ont révélé que près d’un quart d’entre elles sont en « mauvais ou très mauvais état ». Seulement 22 % des bâtiments fonctionnent encore comme des synagogues.
Une résolution adoptée par l’Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe qualifie le patrimoine culturel juif de « partie intégrante du patrimoine culturel partagé en Europe » et affirme qu’il existe une « responsabilité commune de le préserver ».
L’Assemblée est le bras parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe, une organisation de 47 pays à l’échelle du continent. Elle est composée de 324 membres issus des Parlements nationaux du Conseil de l’Europe. La Knesset d’Israël a le statut d’observateur.

*Times of Israel Français, 23.12.2019.

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Sensing Truth: Looking up and seeing portentous things

By Yaakov Mascetti**

The Biblical act of seeing is never univocal, never simple. Rather, seeing is, by and large, a matter of will – perception entails a degree of preparation and of focus. To see is to know – and to know is to see.
This kind of conception of sight is quite distant from what we define today as sight. For the modern reader, who lives in a highly visual dimension where pictures are taken all the time and everywhere, visual perception is often a given, a natural part of everyday life such as breathing, or eating. One defines one’s daily acts by visual portrayals – selfies, pictures of legs on the beach, pictures of delicious courses at a restaurant, smiling happy faces with breathtaking views. In the contemporary world, no ceremony takes place without a video recording; children in daycare are perceived strictly through phones; all events require a video-documentation, and no event is perceived directly any more, but solely through the filter of a black mirror."

*Yaakov Mascetti (PhD) teaches at Bar Ilan University.

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ITALICS

Italian politician attacked by youths in Venice shouting about Anne Frank

By JTA staff*

ROME — Italian Jewish leaders voiced solidarity with former member of parliament Arturo Scotto, who was punched in the face by youths shouting about Anne Frank in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square on New Year’s Eve.
Police in Venice are investigating the incident. Scotto, a former leftist member of parliament who is not Jewish, wrote in a Facebook post that he, his wife, and his son were walking in the square when they heard a group of some eight youths shouting chants exalting Italy’s wartime fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The youths also shouted “Anne Frank – we put her in the ovens,” according to Scotto.
When he turned to tell the youths to stop, Scotto said they punched him three times in the face and beat up a young man who came over to offer help.

*The article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 2, 2020.

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