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In L. 27/02/2004 n.46) art.1, com.1, DCB Milano Milano DCB com.1, art.1, n.46) In L. 27/02/2004 (conv. 353/2003 • D.L. in abbonamento • Spedizione Spa italiane L’inFormazione prodotta dalla Comunità ebraiCa di miLano si evoLve. pensando ai giovani il sito mosaico e Jewboxradio I nuovi media Anno 66°, numero 2 • Febbraio 2011 • Shevat - Adar rishòn 5771 • Poste 5771 - Adar rishòn • Shevat 2011 2 • Febbraio numero Anno 66°, della Comunità Israele / Costume Attualità / Personaggi Cultura / Musicisti Israeliani divoratori di libri: un record da Ben Stiller: “Psicoterapia e ebra- Yehudì Menuhim: storia di un violinista geniale 6400 nuovi titoli l’anno e 18 uscite al giorno ismo erano il mio pane quotidiano” che pensava alla musica come forma di tikkun numero 2 della Febbraio Comunità Ebraica Bollettinoubtkhnc ,hrcgv vkvev iutyc di Milano www.mosaico-cem.it 2 0 1 1 EDITORIALE 02 • Prisma Cari lettori, care lettrici, Notizie da Israele, Italia, mondo attualità Israele il Giorno della Memoria appena trascor- ebraico e dintorni. so ha visto fiorire un po’ ovunque eventi 06 numerosi e tutti interessanti. L’intera 06 • Attualità / israeLe settimana dal 23 al 30 gennaio è stata Siamo i lettori più “forti” del mondo, animata da dibattiti, tavole rotonde, di Aldo Baquis proiezioni... Se da una parte qualcuno, (Ferruccio de Bortoli e Ernesto Galli del- 08 • Attualità / ITALia Il sindaco Moratti, la Scuola Ebraica, la Loggia), ha creduto giusto mettere in Milano, intervista di Ilaria Myr guardia circa una certa “ipertrofia della memoria che rischia di far perdere l’indi- 12 • Il mio ebraismo spensabile nesso tra funzione conoscitiva Ben Stiller: psicoterapia e ebraismo il mio ebraismo (sapere, affinché catastrofi come la Shoah erano il mio pane, di Odeya Bendaud non accadano mai più) e funzione etica 12 (cittadini consapevoli dei valori univer- 10 • L’altra Israele sali, e quindi migliori)”, dall’altra parte La poesia delle erbe e il mantra invece io ritengo che il Giorno della Me- di Rabbi Nahman, di Luciano Assin moria sia un’occasione per interrogarci su noi stessi. Guardare al nostro presen- 14 •Lungo il filo del tempo te a partire dalla immane tragedia della Quel violino fragile e magico chiamato Yehudì Menuhim, di Ruth Migliara Shoah è un’opportunità per fermarci, guardare alla nostra identità di ebrei e l’altra Israele italiani, e rompere lo schema ripetitivo di 16 •Cultura / PATRIMONIO L’avventura di Feinberg, due volte un “disperato presente che ci schiaccia”, strappato all’oblio, di Aldo Baquis come dice De Bortoli. Un’occasione per 10 riflettere su questo terribile disimpegno 18 •Cultura / storia morale che sembra travolgere la classe 2000 anni di Ostjudentum, dalla Yiddish- politica del nostro Paese ma anche sullo keit al Nuovo Mondo, di Rossella De Pas smarrimento della società civile, quando non si fa assuefazione che scivola all’in- differenza. Riflettere ad esempio, sul fatto 20 • Libri e dintorni che con il 2010 si è conclusa un’epoca e che con lei muore un modello di pensiero: 22 • Comunità lungo il filo del tempo quello che postula una felicità legata alla Nuovi media: il sito Mosaico e la prima convinzione di uno sviluppo crescente webRadio ebraica italiana, di R. Zadik 14 e infinito, individuale, economico, so- ciale. Un’idea di felicità che si realizza 29 • Comunità / oFFiCina solo nell’accumulo infinito di beni, cose, Eletto il nuovo presidente Ugei, Daniele oggetti. Ora, come dicono in molti, non Billy Regard, di Miriam Bendayan esiste economia sganciata dalla morale e dall’ecologia. Occorre un nuovo modello 28 • Comunità / oFFiCina di pensiero, capace di ancorare l’econo- Labna.it, il sito di cucina compie un mico nel sociale, che faccia della sobrietà anno, di Miriam Bendayan e della misura la nuova piattaforma della patrimonio nostra ricerca di felicità. Per uscire dal 40 • Lettere cuore di tenebra che ci ha reso sudditi e 42 • Piccoli annunci 18 consumatori ciechi, per ripensarci come 43 • Note tristi soggetti capaci di raggiungere una forma 45 Note liete di felicità che si misuri con il piacere delle • relazioni, con il gusto per gli altri, con 46 • Agenda quella creatività che fonda l’essere divino 48 • Cognomi e parole della natura umana. Bollettino 1 In copertina: le redazioni della webRadio (on air a fine febbraio) e del nuovo sito Mosaico. PRISMA news da Israele, dall’Italia, dal mondo ebraico e dintorni notizie a cura di Ilaria Myr In breve israele / aliyà record nel 2010. un olè hadash ha 99 anni Nuovi antisemiti questo, che invece altri 6 Paesi sudamericani Nuova compagnia parole di hanno fatto (Brasile, low cost sbarca Dall’Est il numero più Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay in Israele odio dall’est ed Ecuador). L’accu- oli low cost con desti- alto di nuovi cittadini satore Tuma fa parte vnazione israele: non I volti e i nomi all’ovest della larga comunità un sogno, ma una realtà resce l’immigrazio- palestinese residente concreta nel prossimo ne in Israele e le della Shoah antisemitismo soffia da in Cile, la più ampia futuro. L’ex chief opera- C provenienze sono ono a oggi circa 4 milioni le est e ovest, indistintamen- esistente oggi fuori dal ting officer di easyJet, sempre più varie. Secondo Svittime della Shoah alle qua- L’ te, come ricordano ogni Medio Oriente. Al di edward Winter, ha infatti gli ultimi dati dell’Agenzia li, grazie a un attento lavoro di giorno le dichiarazioni o i fatti che qua dell’oceano, la siglato un accordo con Ebraica, nel 2010 sono stati ricerca di storici e ricercatori, il trasudano odio contro gli ebrei e che situazione non è però il ministero degli esteri più di 19.000 i nuovi olim Memoriale dello Yad Vashem arrivano da tutte le parti del mondo. migliore. Si è parlato tanto del prete israeliano per il lancio chadashim, gli ebrei che è riuscito a restituire l’identità. Fra le più recenti, ricordiamo quel- greco ortodosso, il metropolita Sera- della nuova compagnia si sono trasferiti in Isra- Lo ha annunciato di recente lo lo che ha detto un senatore cileno, phim del Pireo, che in un’intervista Jet israel, che opererà ele: 16% in più del 2009, stesso Memoriale, soddisfatto per Eugenio Tuma, a proposito dei suoi radiofonica ha dichiarato: “Hitler era solo con voli low cost da che già aveva registrato essere riuscito ad avere ridato un connazionali ebrei: sarebbero “spie uno strumento utilizzato dai sionisti e per israele. per portare un’impennata, con più nome e un volto agli oltre due terzi agenti del governo israeliano”. L’ac- per assicurarsi la creazione dello Stato a realizzazione questo di 16.000 unità, rispetto delle vittime. Per 2,2 milioni di cusa riguarda tutti, senza eccezione: e d’Israele”. Ma non è tutto: il dittatore progetto, il ministero ha ai dieci anni precedenti. queste, fondamentali sono state infatti il politico ha chiaramente fatto nazista sarebbe stato finanziato di- già stilato due modelli Una fetta importante (40%, sone in tutto, contro le 152 gnificativo è il Venezuela, le informazioni fornite da parenti anche i nomi di suoi colleghi, come il rettamente dalla famiglia Rothschild finanziari per la nuova 7.700 persone) è costitui- del 2009) e dall’India (48), dal quale sono arrivati ben o amici, mentre per i molti altri Ministro degli Interni Rodrigo Hin- per convincere gli ebrei a lasciare compagnia aerea e ha ta da immigrati dall’ex ma anche da Paesi europei 150 nuovi immigrati, con- sono stati centrali gli archivi e le zpeter, che in quanto ebreo sarebbe l’Europa per stabilirsi in Israele. E, consultato il ministe- Unione Sovietica, Europa come Belgio (250) Svizzera tro i 39 del 2009. ricerche degli storici. Rimangono “un attivista e un militante della causa parlando di una cospirazione ebraica ro delle finanze per lo dell’Est e Germania. Ma (120) e Italia (110). Sem- Infine, nuove presenze invece praticamente inesistenti le israeliana”. Ma gli ebrei cileni (cir- per asservire il Mondo, ha aggiun- sviluppo di una rete di sono più alte anche le quote pre alta, e nel 2010 ancora anche dalla Cina (10), speranze di trovare informazioni ca 23.000) sarebbero anche la causa to: “Se questa è la loro intenzione, sicurezza, che dovrebbe relative al Nord America più alta, l’immigrazione Monaco (4), Giappone (3), sui restanti due milioni di vittime, della lentezza del governo a ricono- non era forse una buona ragione per costare circa 100 milioni (3.980 persone) e America francese, che questa vol- Honk Kong (3), Honduras uccise nell’Europa dell’Est, nell’ex- scere uno Stato palestinese: passo, bruciarli?”. di schekel (28 milioni di Latina (1.470). ta supera le 2.000 unità, (3), Malawi (2) e persino Urss e in Grecia. dollari). Interessante poi è l’evidente mentre è diminuita quella Guadalupa (2). L’età media incremento di nuovi immi- dalla Gran Bretagna (760). dei nuovi arrivati è di 29 Bocelli star grati dall’Australia e dalla Ma il Paese che più di tutti anni, ma c’è anche chi ha Fermate quell’aquila, Nuova Zelanda (260 per- mostra un incremento si- fatto l’aliyà all’alba dei 99. Immigrati non a Masada ebrei in Israele è una spia del Mossad arà il tenore italiano sandrea bocelli ad l 58% degli israeliani ritiene e vie dello spionaggio sono infinite: è con questa convinzione che avere l’onore di conclu- L’ebraismo iraniano in mostra a Tel Aviv Iche gli immigrati e i lavoratori L l’Arabia Saudita ha di recente arrestato un’aquila con l’accusa di dere l’edizione 2011 del stranieri danneggino fortemente il essere entrata sul territorio arabo con il compito di raccogliere quante masada opera Festival, na mostra dedicata alla storia, alla l’esilio da Gerusalemme fino ai giorni carattere ebraico dello Stato di Isra- più informazioni possibili per conto del Mossad.
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