What It Means to Be Jewish Today: The Chief Rabbi of Rome - Riccardo Di Segni - 265 - Alain Elkann Interviews

COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE. Riccardo Di Segni is the Chief Rabbi of Rome and director of the Italian Rabbinical School since 2001. He is a retired medical doctor specializing in radiology, and as Vice President of the National Committee for Bioethics (Comitanto Nazionale per la Bioetica) in Italy combines his rabbinical duties with his background in medicine. Di Segni is an author whose work focuses on religious, historical, and cultural aspects of Jewish life.  "Despite everything, Judaism endures." "It is the world that is changing, not just Israel." "My mother always told me, 'It's difficult to be Jewish.' It is a very demanding religion that regulates every moment of existence."