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June 15, 2020 - Sivan 23, 5780

NEWS

Restoration works at the Synagogue
of Florence begin

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Restoration works at the Synagogue of Florence started last week.
The works are necessary to protect the structure, after recent studies of the building exposed extensive floor damage.
The floor will be therefore restored to reconstruct the original structure, as architect Renzo Funaro, the president of the “Opera del Tempio ebraico” told Pagine Ebraiche.

NEWS

Italy and Israel look at innovation together

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

While Israel is still discussing when to restart some sectors – from trains to culture – after the coronavirus outbreak, one of its initiatives has already been relaunched: “Accelerate in Israel”, the program fostered by the Italian embassy in Israel to allow Italian start-ups to ‘accelerate’ in Israel.
The new announcement was published on the Italian embassy’s website last week, and applications must be submitted by July 31, 2020.
“Accelerate in Israel” is an instrument for financial support in the framework of the Agreement on Industrial, Scientific and Technological Research and Development Cooperation between Italy and Israel.

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As restrictions are lifted, Italian Jewish communities celebrate their happy occasions

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

As the restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Italy are progressively eased up, Italian Jewish communities started to celebrate again life-cycle events in person, according to the guidelines of the authorities.
In Rome, Elinor and Marco, who were supposed to get married in Jerusalem in March, celebrated their wedding at the Great Synagogue, wearing a mask and with a limited amount of friends and family members, but great joy.
Another wedding was celebrated in Livorno, the wedding of Loretta and Clemente. The ceremony took place in the chief rabbi’s apartment.

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„Jewish lives matter“

Anna Foa*

“Black lives matter”. Vielleicht hat David Bidussa Recht, wenn er sagt, dass die Bewegung noch nicht wie die I have a dream von 1963 ist und, dass sie an einer genaueren Richtung mangelt. Doch stellen wir uns vor, Hunderttausende Leute hätten im Jahr 1938 „Jewish lives matter“ geschrien, um sich gegen Antisemitismus einzusetzen.

*Anna Foa, Historikerin. Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, Studentin der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Religiosity with a smile: Remembering Giovannino (Yohanan) Di Castro

By Yaakov Mascetti*

Two days ago, Giovannino (Yohanan) di Castro passed away in his Kibbutz, Sde Eliyahu, at the age of 96. Together with Nurit (Nora) Ravenna, Giovannino was one of the central pillars of the kibbutz he lived in for most of his life, after having lived through the Fascist regime, the racial laws, the Nazi occupation of Rome and finally the liberation by the hands of the American army. He had, as he used to tell me on the torrid Shabat afternoons we spent together in their apartment, been hidden in a monastery in Rome together with part of his family. Shortly after the liberation he came to Israel and joined already growing Italian group of kibbutznikim in Sde Eliyahu – an awkward and well-concocted marriage between German-born founders who had arrived in Israel in 1934, and Italian Jews who joined the agricultural community with a first group in 1938 (aliyat hanoar) and then in 1945.

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

ITALICS

Rome Jews celebrate first Jewish wedding after lockdown

By Cnaan Liphshiz*

Italian Jews celebrated their community’s first wedding since the country’s synagogues, along with many other institutions, were shut down due to the coronavirus.
Marco Del Monte, a Rome-born chef who is studying for a master’s degree in psychology, married Elinor Hanoka, a sixth-year medical student from Israel, on Sunday while wearing face masks at the Great Synagogue of Rome.
The couple had planned to marry in Jerusalem in March, but Italy and Israel went into lockdown.

*The article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on June 9, 2020.

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