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February 3, 2020 - Shevat 8, 5780

NEWS

UCEI and the Jewish community of Milan
unite to help refugee family

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

The Almohammad family were fleeing war-torn Syria when, after spending some time in refugee camps in Libya, they finally found a safe place in Milan. The seven of them – two parents with four children and another relative in tow – were welcomed by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and the Jewish Community of Milan, which decided to make their contribution and shelter a family shattered by war, in line with the humanitarian corridor project promoted in 2016 by the Community of Sant’Egidio, the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy and Tavola Valdese. UCEI’s concrete act of solidarity adds up to other reception initiatives in which Italian Judaism has already participated.

*Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, 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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Flags flown at half-mast at NATO headquarters on an Italian proposal

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

All NATO member states’ flags flew at half-mast on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. This solemn and unprecedented initiative for NATO headquarters was carried out by impulse of the Italian Permanent Representation led by Ambassador Francesco Maria Talò.
“We continue doing what is a moral duty and is dictated by law since 2000, namely preserving Remembrance. This initiative represents something new for NATO,” Talò said.

*Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

NEWS

Italian Football Association and UCEI
launch cultural initiative against racism

By Adam Smulevich

The Italian Football Association (FIGC) and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) have launched a cultural task force against racism in stadiums, FIGC President Gabriele Gravina announced last week.
The project - he explained - was created in agreement with UCEI President Noemi Di Segni as a response to an increasingly wide-spread offensive language "that generates concern but also leads us to invest more and more in education and training".
A recent event organized by UCEI to kick racism and antisemitism out of Italian stadiums which was recently held in Rome and was attended by Gravina among others discussed these topics.

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Mattarella erinnert an Antisemitismus in Italien

KNA*

Zum Holocaust-Gedenktag hat Italiens Staatspräsident Sergio Mattarella vor einem Wiedererstarken des Antisemitismus gewarnt. Das Virus der Diskriminierung, der Unterdrückung und des Rassismus sei nicht auf einen isolierten Bereich der Geschichte beschränkt. Es zu bekämpfen, sei eine Frage der Zukunft der Menschheit, sagte Mattarella am Montag bei einer Feierstunde in seinem römischen Amtssitz, dem Quirinal. Dabei beklagte er auch Judenhass in Italien..

*27.01.2020

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'Come to Pharaoh':
Exodus as Divine Act
of Self-Erasures

By Yaakov Mascetti**

With respect to the Divine commandment of “Lech Lecha” in the Book of Genesis I have argued here that Abraham imposed abandonment of his home, his culture and his father’s embrace is really an act of foundation of a new national model – a nation, the Abrahamic one, that is based on the void of solitude, on the uncertainty of movement. The many of the Hebrew nation grow out of the nothingness of a man who leaves everything, in the name of a Divine promise.
Curiously, the parsha of “Bo,” “come” is also based on movement, an ordered kind of movement (Ex. 10:1-2).

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

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ITALICS

15% of Italians say Holocaust never happened

By Cnaan Lifshitz*

More than 15 percent of respondents to a poll in Italy said the Holocaust never happened.
The results are part of the annual Eurispes Italy Report published Thursday. The poll by the non-governmental organization probes Italians’ views on a number of subjects, including the credibility of the government, the media and history, this year including the Holocaust.
The prevalence of Holocaust denial among the 1,120 Italian adults surveyed is more than five times higher than in the 2004 edition, when 2.7% of respondents said the Holocaust never happened.
Nearly 24% of the respondents said Jews control the economy and media, and 26% said they control US policy.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel via JTA on February 1, 2020.

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