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May 11, 2020 - Iyar 17, 5780

NEWS

Italian Jewish institutions at work to reopen synagogues under government guidelines

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Italian Jewish leaders are working close to the country’s authority to create the appropriate protocols to reopen synagogues in the coming days.
The Italian government is collaborating with religious institutions so that places of worship can resume activities on May 18.

NEWS

Major historian to publish book on relations between Pius XII and Mussolini

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

David Kertzer, the most authoritative scholar about the relations between the Catholic Church and the Jews and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, is working on a book focused on the relations between Eugenio Pacelli, who became Pope with the name of Pius XII, and the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Kertzer announced the new book speaking on an online event organized by Pagine Ebraiche.
The historian was one of the few scholars who had the opportunity to start examining the Vatican archives on Pius XII which were opened for the first at the beginning of March after decades, right before the coronavirus crisis forced the facility to close again.

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Israel launches initiative to support
Italian Jewish community

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

An online fundraising to support the Italian Jewish community in the time of crisis has been launched by the Israeli organization by Ha'ruach Ha'Israelit (Spirit of Israel) in collaboration with the Jewish Agency and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
The project developed after the spontaneous initiatives of several personalities who in the past received help from the country and have come forward to support Italian Jewry.
"A family never leaves anyone behind," reads the motto of the initiative.

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Veinte años sin Bartali: Italia recuerda a su estrella

Redacción MARCA*

Italia recordó este martes al ciclista Gino Bartali, tres veces ganador del Giro y doble campeón del Tour de Francia entre los años 30 y 40, de cuyo fallecimiento se cumple el vigésimo aniversario.
Bartali, uno de los símbolos del ciclismo italiano y protagonista de una histórica rivalidad deportiva con su compatriota Fausto Coppi, fue honrado este martes en una ceremonia organizada en la ciudad donde nació en 1914, Ponte a Ema, a poco más de diez kilómetros de Florencia.?

*MARCA 05/05/2020.

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2020, the good and the bad

By David Bidussa*

The year 2020 has also brought some good things. For example, Silvia Romano is free. But then a voice inside my head tells me that it is good not to forget to call things by their name. Ibrahim Gökçek has been a victim of despotism (this was the name of the political regime that in the 18th century denied the right of opponents to live) and the story of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed in Georgia by two policemen while jogging because he was black, tells us that racism still wins. Nothing tells us that they will be the last to suffer violence.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Vatican minimised Shoah reports due
to antisemitism, researchers claim

By Jacob Judah*

German researchers working in the Apostolic Archive claim to have found evidence that the Vatican was handed reports about the extent of the Holocaust in 1942, but dismissed some of the information they contained.
The seven-person team from the University on Münster claimed that the Vatican had minimised information on the massacres of Jews, considering that Jewish and Ukrainian sources could not be trusted.
The conclusions hinge on a 1942 American démarche to the Holy See.
The team found that on September 27, 1942, the Holy See was passed a report by the American envoy to the Vatican, detailing the murder of Jews in occupied Poland and asking if the Catholic Church could independently confirm the crimes it outlined.
The report outlined how Jews were being taken out of the Warsaw Ghetto, and murdered outside of the city in camps.

*The article was published in the Jewish Chronicle on May 4, 2020.

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