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July 13, 2020 - 21 Tamuz, 5780

NEWS

Italy and Israel sign a protocol to fight coronavirus together

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Italian and Israeli authorities signed a protocol to fight coronavirus together last week.
"The Israeli embassy in Italy has initiated this scientific cooperation in the spirit of collaboration and friendship with our beloved Italy, in order to overcome the coronavirus crisis that has caused so much suffering,” Israeli ambassador to Italy Dror Eydar commented.

NEWS

Italian Jewish community, an example
of resilience

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Jewish Agency for Israel organized a meeting with its chairman Isaac Herzog and several leaders from communities in the diaspora, including the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni.
“Diaspora communities have always made an essential contribution to Israel. Now the time has come for Israel to do something in the opposite direction too," Herzog said.
The meeting was an opportunity to present a series of initiatives aimed at offering support to all those Jewish communities around the world that are facing major challenges in the light of the pandemic.

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Vatican diplomacy’s commitments
and weaknesses: from Israel
to relations with Judaism

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“We’re living in a moment of great conflict, including in the Middle East. All of this is creating an atmosphere in which many discriminations will probably continue to thrive. We need a lot of work at the grass-roots level to change hearts,” said Paul Gallagher, Vatican’s Secretary of Relations between States – the Holy See’s “Foreign Minister”. The English Archbishop was hosted in a behind-the-scenes meeting on Vatican diplomacy which was organised by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) with the participation of Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s International Director of Interreligious Affairs, and moderated by journalist Lisa Billig, AJC Representative in Italy and Liaison to the Holy See. The meeting was an occasion to address different topics, among which were engagement in dialogue, the fight against antisemitism, and ongoing negotiations between the Vatican and Israel.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Sara Facelli, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

bechol lashon - Español

La N de (Vittorio) Gassmann

Emanuele Calò*

He restaurado el antiguo apellido de la familia. Agregué una “ene” al final: ahora soy Alessandro Gassmann en el pasaporte. No para romper el vínculo con mi padre, que siempre ha sido muy fuerte. Sino para recuperar la historia familiar. Nosotros somos judios. Yo a medias, mi padre por completo. En el 34, la abuela, que había quedado viuda con dos niños y sintió la tormenta que se avecinaba, quitó la “ene” del apellido de los niños y lo cambió de Ambroon a Ambrosi. Mi padre Vittorio tenía todas las características que se atribuyen a los judíos, incluido la del ahorro: un hombre muy generoso (nunca lo he visto dejar pagar un almuerzo o una cena a su comensal), en la casa apagaba continuamente las luces, apagaba el interruptor central, desenroscaba las bombillas. Estaba obsesionado con el consumo de electricidad. Tenía un sentido de la naturaleza temporal de las cosas, de la fugacidad de la vida.

*Enlace Judío México, 7.7.20.

Más

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Attachment or proximity
to God?

By Yaakov Mascetti*

The fervor or passion of a man for God is traditionally exemplified in the Torah by the uncompromising behavior of Pinchas in the book of Numbers:

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Pinchas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion. Say, therefore, ‘I grant him My pact of friendship. It shall be for him and his descendants after him a pact of priesthood for all time, because he took impassioned action for his God, thus making expiation for the Israelites.’” (Num. 25:10-12).

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

ITALICS

Jewish Agency says Israel helping Diaspora weather pandemic, in role reversal

By Yaakov Schwartz*

Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog cited a “change of paradigm” during the pandemic era, in which Israel is helping struggling Jewish communities across the Diaspora – instead of the other way around – after initial disbursements from an emergency loan fund helped communities stave off collapse.
Addressing a virtual briefing on Wednesday at which some of the community heads shared their experiences weathering COVID-19, Herzog said the Jewish Agency has already provided nearly $10 million in interest-free loans to 23 Jewish communities in Latin America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, New Zealand and South Africa – and that applications for an additional $12 million put the requested amount of aid at over $22 million.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel on July 8, 2020.

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