anti-Semitism 
"If Auschwitz did not heal the world-Semitism,
what will cure him?" ( Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize
and survived the Nazi death camps)
anti-Semitism He wrote not long ago, Sergio Harari "Corriere della sera" that anti-Semitism is not only at Auschwitz, the racial laws of 1938, and the denial of the Holocaust, but also what we experience in everyday life. Adding, among other things, that never in the past year happened to be uncomfortable for stupid jokes and phrases uttered with absolute normality, as if he was saying anything wrong, nor anything racist.
The fact is - even if, in the current cultural climate favorable than ever to multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism, is hard to believe - that anti-Semitism is coming back unexpectedly to fill our everyday life a bit 'anywhere in our country. And Venice, in this respect, it makes no exception, unfortunately.
rooted and preconceived The inability of some of our fellow citizens do not own copies to accept diversity and respect it, mixed with ignorance and a good dose of anti-Semitism of yesteryear array of both religious and secular never vanished, is generating feeding and fortunately only in some areas bordering the Ghetto Cannaregio and low-acculturated or not a shameful and embarrassing climate of hostility toward Jews Chabad-Lubavitch of the Venetian community - in this Ghetto, along with other communities Hebrew, with its center and other activities of religious and educational - which are invariably viewed with suspicion and intolerance at all free from many residents of these areas, as well as the number found to be excessive on the basis of purely personal considerations and subjective, especially for themselves: for the simple fact of being Jewish, in other words, and not to hide their identity at all this with a traditional and typical clothing that distinguishes them. Due to the fact that they are also often the subject of jokes by some idiotic distinguished inexperienced, in compliance with such sublime aesthetic criterion is not known, does not hesitate to consider very source of ridicule and laughter, rather than respect it is considered a matter strictly belonging to them and their rules, that kind of dress in black, leading mostly beard and do not give up all and sundry during the day to the typical Jewish hat circular ( kippah) and the fringes outside the trousers ( tzitzit ) as required by them to make Torah.
order to avoid such conduct not very honorable and decent for a city respectful of different religious faiths, which is deemed to be Venice, I certainly worth the trouble to remind those Venetians who still do not know that the community in question, like it or not a certain, objectively and legitimately ago from more than twenty years of religious life, social and cultural city and, far from being isolated as a hotbed of religious fanatics, there have been sometimes wrongly accused, belongs to one of the largest Hasidic movements of Orthodox Judaism, which administers thousands of centers, communities, schools and synagogues around the world. Providing assistance, educational and other services not only to its own members, but also to Jews in general. That is what happens the rest in Venice, where the central Chabad-Lubavitch is, among other things, a reference point for the thousands and thousands of Jews from around the world each year to visit the Ghetto with the aim inter alia, not only to participate in their religious ceremonies during special holidays and eating foods according to their traditions while being on the road and away from home, but also to acquire, through the historical present in the Ghetto, further building their own history and identity.
It will be worth also worth remembering - always those Venetians who still do not know - for a more desirable consideration and respect, the toll paid by the movement to which the Venetian community, Chabad-Lubavitch belongs in the wake of the terrorist in Mumbai in November 2008, in which, as you recall, one of the places chosen by Islamic terrorists was precisely the Welfare Centre Chabad-Lubavitch of the Indian city, where they were killed the chief rabbi and his wife together several of their brothers and associates.
And this, mind you, even though the Chabad-Lubavitch is known to be generally more devoted to prayer that political activism is very far from considering, and advocate, as opposed to other components of Judaism, Zionism is that the legitimacy of the definition of Israel as a Jewish state. But in some minds clouded the Only the Arab world and the simple fact of being Jewish - beyond their own opinions and his actions - obviously more than enough to legitimize and justify even the most gruesome and heinous act against them.
ENZO PEDROCCHI
