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March 16, 2020 - Adar 20, 5780

NEWS

Israeli cities expressed solidarity to Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

Israeli cities expressed solidarity with Italy. The walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, but also the municipality buildings of Tel Aviv and Petah Tikwa were lit up with the colors of the Italian flag.
“Italy, Jerusalem stands with you,” read the message on the Old City walls.

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Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs speaks with UCEI President

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

The President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni and the Israeli Diaspora Minister Tzipi Hotovely spoke on the phone and discussed Israel’s support for the Italian Jewish community in the face of the healthy emergency.
Hotovely remarked on Israel's closeness to Italy and its Jewish world, offering Jerusalem’s support, while Di Segni explained the measures taken by the Jewish communities in compliance with the directives of the government, giving an overview on the critical issues the country is facing.

NEWS

“Remembrance stays open”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

A tool for students and teachers, as schools are closed but teaching and learning should not stop. Especially on topics which help build the society’s sense of civic duty.
With a joint project named “La Memoria resta aperta” (Remembrance stays open), the Foundation “Museum of the Shoah” in Rome and Rai Cinema will make available for free a number of documentaries on the Holocaust and anti-Jewish laws which can be streamed on the website Raicinemachannel.it. It is a project which “aims at giving access to contents and educational tools, so that students and teachers can keep on studying even during class suspension.”

*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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Adversités et occasions

Anna Foa*

«Ils paraissent des adversités, mais ce sont au contraire des occasions», comme l’écrivit Giambattista Vico. Est-ce que c’est trop optimiste ? Alors on pourrait dire : « Ils paraissent des adversités, mais c’est à nous de les transformer en occasions».

*Traduit par Mattia Stefani et révisé par Sara Facelli, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaires dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Obedience

By David Bidussa*

Sometimes calling things with their name helps to understand them.
In recent days many people are frightened by the words "duty of obedience" because it gives the idea of a possible domination without the possibility of opposing it. In short, despotism (not to mention totalitarianism). If I say "naasseh venishma", can we make up for it?

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Italy’s Jews face realities
of coronavirus lockdown

By Cnaan Liphshiz*

The outbreak of the coronavirus in northern Italy forced Claudia Bagnarelli to make a painful choice.

“To keep visiting my 94-year-old mother, I needed to stop seeing everyone else in my life,” Bagnarelli, a Jewish ballet teacher from Milan, said Monday.
To avoid the risk of infecting her mother with the virus, Bagnarelli has gone into indefinite self-quarantine. On Monday, the Italian government ordered a lockdown of the country — including a ban on all travel and public events — in an effort to contain the spread of the disease that has already killed over 460 people there. The total number of confirmed Italian cases is nearly 10,000.
“Now I stay in my apartment all day, don’t see anybody in person and only go out to go see my mother,” Bagnarelli said. “The hardest part is not being able to see my daughter and granddaughter, whom I normally see every day.
“This is very difficult. I’m an Italian-Jewish mother, after all.”

*The article was published in JTA on March 10, 2020.

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